Overview
The Department of French and Italian faculty and staff provide and support innovative, high quality teaching responsive to educational needs and interests of students through courses in pedagogy, language teaching, literary criticism, and cultural studies. The department offers the innovative online resources Français Interactif and Tex's French Grammar.
The department offers bachelors degrees in French and Italian. At the graduate level the department provides three subject tracks leading to masters and doctors degrees in French: French and Francophone Literature; French Linguistics; Romance Linguistics. Graduate courses in Italian support graduate degrees in other departments and cross-disciplinary offerings.
Offices are located in Homer Rainey Hall (HRH) on 2st Street between the Harry Ransom Center and Benedict Hall. The building was originally the UT Music Building and was renamed in honor of former UT President Homer Rainey (1939-1944). The department shares this interesting 1950s Spanish Colonial style building with the Jessen Auditorium, and Liberal Arts Dean's Conference Room.
2008 Department Scholarship
Open to French and Italian majors or Plan II students with French or Italian concentration.
Application Deadline:
Fri 11 April, 2008
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Tavola Italiana
Informal Italian conversation practice Fridays 3:30-4:30p at the Texas Union's Cactus Café open to all students of Italian. Contact Antonella Olson for more information.
Le Cercle français
Informal French conversation practice Thursdays 2-3 at the Texas Union's Cactus Café open to all students of French. Contact Beatriz Schleppe for more information.
Il Circolo Italiano
Sponsors Italian films and other activities. Contact Adria Frizzi for more information.
