Bachelor of Arts - BA French Florida International University

French is spoken on five continents by over 200 million speakers and is classified as the fourth most spoken language in the world when including second-language speakers. Geopolitically, however, it is the world's second official language: the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF), created in 1970, has 70 member states and governments, of which over 30 have French as an official language. Furthermore, French, along with English, is an official working language of many international organizations, such as the UN, UNESCO, NATO, and the IOC. French is also cited as the language most often required or requested for international jobs by the US State Department, and, according to the OIF, French is the third most important language of the Internet. A world leader in the fields of technology and scientific research, France is the home of the Minitel (precursor to WWW online services), the TGV or Train à Grande Vitesse (one of the fastest trains in the world), the Institut Pasteur (a leader in medical research which first isolated the AIDS virus), and Airbus (one of the world's principal aerospace engineering firms). France is also a major research partner in the field of high energy physics, and in nearby French-speaking Switzerland is found CERN, the world's largest and most complex atom smasher.

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