Pennsylvania State University's Department of French and Institute of Public Administration have responded to the need for language-trained civil servants by developing a dual master's degree program in French and public administration. Degree requirements include the full requirements for each program, with six credits from each curriculum considered as electives for the other. The average program length is six semesters. Graduates are expected to begin careers in state or federal public administration with an international emphasis. At the end of the program, students produce a bilingual group or individual paper equivalent to a master's thesis. The paper must be approved by faculty leaders in both units. The first program participants, each of whom came to the institution for a different program, are now completing requirements. The program has been designed entirely from existing courses, but has required more full-time specialists in language, culture, and pedagogy and has precipitated new doctoral concentrations in those nontraditional specialties. (MSE)