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Experience cultural immersion and perfect your language skills with one of our study abroad programs in Rome, Québec City, Paris, or Nantes.

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Discover the political and social evolutions of France, Dante’s Divine Comedy, the relationship between language and cultural identity, human and machine translation, and the cultural history of Italy and the Francophone world.

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Featured Course

FRENCH 320 A: French Language and Cultural Identity

Spring 2025

This course explores many questions about language, culture, and identity in French and Francophone regions to examine how race, gender, and sexuality influence individual and collective identity.

First page of French language comic by French student Acacia Zou

Fourth Annual French & Italian Studies Academic Awards Winners!

We are very pleased to announce the winners of the fourth annual French & Italian Studies Academic Awards! All students who have enrolled in a French & Italian Studies course during the 2023-2024 academic year were eligible to submit a final project completed in a FIS course.