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Fels Institute of Government
Graduate | MGA
The objective of the MGA Program is to prepare its students for leadership in government service, non-profit and social service organizations, and organizations closely associated with the public sector. The twelve-course MGA program revolves around four core areas: Finance (budgeting, financial management); Politics (political structure, policy development, governance); Economics (economic analysis); and Management (leadership and evaluation and performance management).

Film Studies
Graduate, Undergraduate
Film Studies is an interdisciplinary program designed to acquaint students with the history and interpretation of film and to allow them to combine knowledge of the field with the traditional aims of an undergraduate liberal arts education.

Finance - Doctoral
Graduate | PHD
The doctoral program in Finance at the Wharton School prepares students of exceptional talent for careers in research and teaching at the world's leading academic institutions. The faculty is renowned for its research, both empirical and theoretical, in areas such as the structure of financial markets, the formation and behavior of financial asset prices, banking and monetary systems, corporate control and capital structure, saving and capital formation, and international financial markets. Because financial research is analytical, candidates with undergraduate training in economics, mathematics, engineering, or any other quantitative discipline have an ideal background for undertaking doctoral studies in this field.

Finance - MBA
Graduate | MBA
Wharton's most popular major, Finance is also a common choice for a double major. It clearly appeals to those interested in the finance sector, including investment banking, investment management, hedge funds, and private equity. The major is likewise a good choice for those considering careers in corporate treasury, retail banking, and consumer finance positions. Finance majors also often fill management consulting jobs as well as corporate finance positions, for example in mergers and acquisitions in the energy sector. The Finance major combines particularly well with Strategic Management, Marketing, and Operations and Information Management.

Finance - Undergraduate
Undergraduate | BS
The concentration in Finance at the Wharton School gives students a broad introduction to financial markets and to the tools financial managers use. Students who take this concentration often pursue careers in commercial or investment banking or become internal financial managers for corporations. Many of the courses offered by the Finance Department form clusters, and students who wish to develop a specialized understanding of one area of finance may select courses from four clusters: Corporate Finance, Investment Management, Banking and Financial Institutions, and International Finance.

Finance and Accounting Certificate - Wharton Programs for Working Professionals
Graduate
The Wharton School's Finance & Accounting Certificate Program (FACP) is a four-course, post-baccalaureate program covering the introductory foundation courses in the areas of finance and accounting. This program is designed for college graduates who hold bachelor's degrees in areas of study other than finance and accounting. With proper planning, a student can complete the FACP in as little as two semesters. The FACP has been designed to accommodate students with little, if any, academic background in the fields of finance or accounting. All courses earn University of Pennsylvania credits. Upon completion of the program, students receive a certificate awarded by Wharton's Aresty Institute for Executive Education.

Fine Arts
Graduate, Undergraduate | BA, MFA
The program in Fine Arts provides students with opportunities for intellectual growth through studies in visual formulation and visual articulation. Sequenced courses are available in painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, animation, graphic design, film/video and multi-media. The program holds that an education in liberal studies should include the challenge of visual thinking—learning to see—and that the education of the artist is dramatically improved by an education in liberal studies. The Department of Fine Arts offers a Major and Minor in Fine Arts Program for undergraduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences at Penn.

Folklore and Folklife
Graduate
The Graduate Program in Folklore at the University of Pennsylvania came into existence in 1963. The program's curriculum has always emphasized the history and theory of the field of folklore cross-culturally, and the faculty are proud of the many outstanding American as well as international students who have come to train with them.

Folklore and Folklife (minor only)
Undergraduate | BA
Folklore is the study of human expression in languages, images, music and food, and of movements in traditional societies and the representation of these forms in the world of modern technology, literatures and the arts. Folklore’s reach is global, ranging from villages, towns and cities, to migrant and immigrant communities in the megalopolitan and rural regions of the world, and spanning divergent population groups as well. The field of study is vast, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary.

French
Undergraduate
The Major in French Studies has a double aim: to promote linguistic fluency in French and to produce cultural literacy in the fascinating and complex francophone world. The Major builds on the linguistic skills students have acquired in high school or at Penn by offering a series of advanced multi-media and interactive language courses, with cultural content which students assimilate through cinema, newspaper and magazine articles, literary texts and internet-based material (French 202, 212, 214).

French
Graduate
The University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate Group in Romance Languages offers a flexible, five-year Ph.D. program in the fields of French, Italian, or Hispanic studies.The overarching goal of the program is to train students both for productive scholarship and for effective college or university teaching.