Look up our French and Italian summer course offerings, if you would like to study our languages over the summer. Regular instruction in French and Italian resumes on August 16.
Have a restful and productive summer!
Italian Summer Courses: ITAL 101 and 102
French summer courses: FR 101 and 102
Fall 2023: FR 387 Media and Cinema in French
Fall 2023: ITAL 156 Exploring Rome
Fall 2023: FR 543 Narratives of Disease
Fall 2023: ITAL 420 Masterpieces of Renaissance Literature
Fall 2023: ITAL 210 Practical Review of Italian
Fall 2023: FR 212 French Identities
Fall 2023: FR 156 Exploring Paris
This year's K. A. Looney Awards for French Merit prize went to six outstanding majors and minors who have been excellent in their classes and earned a minimum GPA of 3.5 in a rigorous academic program in French. Minors: Albertson, Elise (MCB & French) Nikolov, Sophie (Psychology & French) Pechan, Maggie (IB...
Congratulations to Professor Julie Gaillard for winning Honorable Mention, one of this year's Humanities Research Institute's Prizes for Research across all fields of the Humanities on campus. Professor Gaillard's article is entitled: “‘Returning 'home’? Or Dwelling in the Pixel Age: On Invader’s Intermedial Invasion.” The article features the work of French artist 'Invader' who, since 1998, has...
More Department News
- Congratulations to faculty and teaching assistants who have been ranked as excellent by their students in Fall 2022! Thank you for your hard work in your classrooms during our first semester fully back to campus. We are proud of you! ASAMOAH, FRIMPONG W (TA) – FR 103* ...
- The first issue of this year's H-France Forum, the blog space devoted to highlights of significant new books in Francophone history and literature, is featuring reviews of Professor Emeritus Jean-Philippe Mathy's latest book: "Chronic Aftershock: How 9/11 Shaped Present-Day France" (McGill...
- This semester's Italian and French Conversation Tables are back and open to students, staff, and faculty. Each event is held in Espresso Royal Café, located on the corner of Goodwin Avenue and Oregon Street in Urbana. The weekly Caffettino! events are organized every Monday from 5-6 pm by...
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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...
