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  • Online Caffettino Cultural Event
  • FR 207
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  • Online Caffettino Cultural Event
    Italian Cultural Events, Spring 2021

    And our Italian cultural events are off to a great start! We look forward to seeing all of you at our Caffettino Italian conversation hours, and our Cineforum Italian film roundtables. 

     

    Caffettino cultural event information: https://calendars.illinois.edu/detail/1940?eventId=33402227

    Cineforum cultural event information: https://calendars.illinois.edu/detail/1940?eventId=33402235

     

    Please contact apt2@illinois.edu for Zoom information. 

     

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  • FR 207
    SPRING 2021

    FR 207: Writing and Grammar Workshop

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  • ITAL 310
    SPRING 2021

    ITAL 310: Advanced Grammar

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  • FR 576
    SPRING 2021

    FR 576: Outsiders Looking In / Insiders Looking Out: Novels Written by French / not French authors

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  • FR 485
    SPRING 2021

    FR 485: Commercial French

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  • FR 213
    SPRING 2021

    FR 213: French Phonetics

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  • FR 501
    SPRING 2021

    FR 501: Reading French for Grads

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  • FR 319
    SPRING 2021

    FR 319: Survey of Francophone Literature: Literature from the Former French Colonies

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  • FR 578: Marcel Proust
    SPRING 2021

     FR 578: Marcel Proust

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  • Power of the Sacred Image Roundtable

    PhD Candidate in Italian Studies Moderates Roundtable on Visual Rhetoric and Power

    Pierpaolo Spagnolo, PhD Candidate in Italian and Medieval Studies, is no stranger to the Newberry Library’s scholarly programs, but Friday February 12, 2021 was the first time that he moderated one of the roundtable discussions of the Newberry's prestigious Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference.    Following three introductory...
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  • Mouna Benbouazzza, French MA 2020

    Achieving Goals with a Master of Arts in French

    Soon after Mouna Benbouazza graduated with a Master of Arts in French from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018, she quickly found herself overseeing communications at an international think tank. She worked in Brussels, the very heart of the European Union, on important issues such as climate change, trade cooperation, and technology. Her favorite task? Writing!   An MA in...
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    Distinguished Alumni Lecture by Professor Michael Mulryan (PhD 2009)

    Please join one of our former students and now Associate Professor of French at Christopher Newport University, Virginia, Michael Mulryan (PhD in French Studies, 2009), at his lecture titled “How to Publish Rather than Perish in the American Liberal Arts College: Making Connections, Maintaining Continuity, and Understanding University Culture” on February 9th, from 4-5pm, CT (5-6 ET) on...
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More Department News

  • Online Winter 2021 French and Italian IFLIP Programs Success
    Despite the pandemic, the French & Italian department partook once again in the Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program (IFLIP) at UIUC.    Although online, three of our very own teaching assistants reported success from their courses this past winter. They were able to create...
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  • Back to teaching with Assistant Dean of Students Ann Marie Morgan
    On Friday January 22, the French and Italian Basic Language Programs started their last day of pre-semester orientation with a discussion with Assistant Dean of Students Anne Marie Morgan from the Office of the Dean (LAS). Dean Morgan presented a lecture followed by a Q&A on resources and best...
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  • Happy Holidays from the Department of French & Italian
    As this semester comes to an end, we wish everybody a restful and joyful break. Happy holidays to all those who celebrate this winter. We will see you all next semester, in 2021! Happy New Year!
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  • Paris vor Triumphbogen
    FR 322

    Movements and Perspectives

    "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...
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  • FR 336 French Cultural History 1789-1968
    FR 336

    French Cultural History, 1789-1968

    Survey 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":...
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  • FR 324 Literature and the Other Arts
    FR 324

    Literature and the Other Arts

    "Images of Reality, Reality of Images."
    Course Description for FR 324
  • ITAL 420 Founding Mothers: Female Genealogies in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
    ITAL 420

    Founding Mothers: Female Genealogies in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature

    ITAL 420 Founding Mothers: Female Genealogies in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
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  • ITAL 240 Middle Ages and Renaissance: The Foul and the Fragrant
    ITAL 240

    Middle Ages and Renaissance: The Foul and the Fragrant

    FA19  ITAL 240 Middle Ages and Renaissance: The Foul and the Fragrant
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  • Sociophonetics of French and Gallo-Romance course
    FR 529

    Sociophonetics of French and Gallo-Romance

    FR 529 Sociophonetics of French and Gallo-Romance course
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  • FR 212
    FR 212

    Introduction to Cultural Analysis - French Identities

    Introduction 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...
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