Despite the pandemic, undergraduate students in our French and Italian programs have continued demonstrating excellence in their studies. Congratulations to the following students for their achievements!
Campus and School Awards
Michelle Dinh, senior in Accountancy and French minor, is a 2021-2022 recipient of the Fulbright Teaching Assistant Award to France. During her...
Italian Summer Online CoursesRegister for ITAL 101 or ITAL 102 online to get the basics down in Italian. Classes begin on June 14th.
French Summer Online CoursesRegister for FR 101 or FR 102 online to get the basics down in French. Classes are 8 weeks and start on May 17th.
FALL 2021ITAL 418: Language & Minorities in Europe
FALL 2021FR 335: French Cultural History to 1789
FALL 2021FR 207: Writing and Grammar Workshop
FALL 2021FR 213: French Phonetics
Every year, the Department of French and Italian recognizes outstanding graduate teaching assistants. We are proud to announce the following awards for 2020-2021. Francesco Ferrari and Pierpaolo Spagnolo have been awarded the Department of French & Italian Senior Awards for Excellence in Teaching Italian in recognition of their excellence in teaching introductory and advanced...
PhD Candidate Receives Outstanding Graduate Student Award for Diversity and Social Justice Education
Charlotte Prieu, PhD Candidate in French Linguistics, has been awarded the 2021 Outstanding Graduate Student Award from Diversity and Social Justice Education (DiversityEd), part of the Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations at the University of Illinois. This campus-level award recognizes Charlotte’s long-...
More Department News
- Faculty and students in FRIT gave presentations and chaired panels at the 11th EU Studies Conference, titled Community, Immunity, and the Limits of Mobility, organized the European Union Center on Thursday April 15th and Friday April 16th. Emanuel Rota, ...
- Despite the unprecedented pandemic, Professors and Teaching Assistants of the Department of French & Italian were able to continuously deliver quality education to their students during the Spring, Summer, and Fall of 2020. Congratulations to all Professors and Teaching...
- Nicolas Portugal, Ph.D. candidate in French Studies, has been awarded an SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2021-2022 academic year. His research project, "Contemporary French Literature in the Wake of Terrorism", analyzes the different forms of literature produced in the aftermath of...
Calendar
Highlighted Courses
FR 322"Les Années noires (1940-44) and their aftermath" Les Années noires (1940-1944) and their aftermath in film, literature, memoirs and documents such as photography. The Vichy regime ; Everyday life in Paris during the Nazi Occupation ; Collaboration and Resistance ; the Holocaust...
FR 336Survey of French cultural history from the French Revolution to 1968. Taught in French. {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/7YNR61ndKH0.jpg?itok=tUlL4gsE","video_url":"https://youtu.be/7YNR61ndKH0","settings":{"responsive":...
FR 324"Images of Reality, Reality of Images."
ITAL 420ITAL 420 Founding Mothers: Female Genealogies in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
ITAL 240FA19 ITAL 240 Middle Ages and Renaissance: The Foul and the Fragrant
FR 529FR 529 Sociophonetics of French and Gallo-Romance course
FR 212Introduction to concepts of and debates on French national identity. Materials are drawn from a multiplicity of media and from many spheres of modern life in France: political, artistic, the everyday, etc. Identification of major resources for the study of culture and analysis of diverse cultural...
