The use of Virtual Reality is taking hold of UIUC classrooms and basic language courses in French are at the forefront of this innovation.
SPRING 2020FR 156 Exploring Paris
SPRING 2020FR 443 French Around the World
SPRING 2020ITAL 413 Dante
SPRING 2020FR 574 Reading in the 19th-Century Novel
SPRING 2020FR 588 Mixed Methods Research in SLATE
SPRING 2020FR 576 Independence on Film: Portraits by the Colonized
The first Edmay Gregorcy Pritz Scholarship in French was awarded to Hailey Ban, a senior double-majoring in French and Integrative Biology. The scholarship has been established in honor of Ms. Edmay Gregorcy Pritz, an alumna who became a French high school teacher in Cleveland.
Jordan Stump's translation The Barefoot Woman, a novel by Scholastique Mukasonga, is among the five finalists for this year's National Book Award in Translated Fiction.
More Department News
- Amelia Reggi, a current European Union Center FLAS fellow, has recently been named a Fulbright Award finalist for the English Teaching Assistant Program to teach English in Italy.
- François Proulx (FRIT), Caroline Szylowicz (Rare Book & Manuscript Library) and Françoise Leriche (Université Grenoble Alpes) presented the Corr-Proust project at the New York Public Library on February 14, 2019.
- Illinois researchers have created a website to make thousands of letters written by Marcel Proust available to the public. Caroline Szylowicz, the Kolb-Proust librarian and a curator of rare books and manuscripts, and Francois Proulx, a professor of French, are experts in Proust’s correspondence. They partnered on the project with two French institutions, Universite Grenoble Alpes and the Institute for Modern Texts and Manuscripts.
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Highlighted Courses
FR 322"Les Années noires (1940-44) and their aftermath"
FR 336Survey of French cultural history from the French Revolution to 1968. Taught in French.
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.
