LLC Mission Statement
Through engaged teaching, innovative research, diverse creative activity, and dedicated service, the Department strives to:
- Communicate an understanding of languages, literatures, and cultures within the context of a humanistic liberal education;
- Connect with individuals and communities within the department, across the campus, the state, the nation, and the world in order to foster a culture of meaningful intellectual inquiry, participatory and life-long learning that promotes respect for all;
- Contribute to the University's strategic goal of internationalizing the campus as we prepare our students to excel in a variety of professions and graduate studies.
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Student Spotlight
Monica Scovell
MA Class of 2012
The year I spent in Angers will have a lasting impact on me, from the friends I made to my better understanding of the French language, culture, and especially the university system.
Faculty Achievement
Ana Hontanilla
Associate Professor of Spanish
Ana Hontanilla, an LLC Associate Professor of Spanish, received a 2012 John Carter Brown Library Grant for her work, "Sentiment and the Law: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Caribbean (1785-1820) Donald L. Saunders Fellow (5).
Faculty Bookshelf
Taking its title from Jorge Manrique's famous elegy for his father ("Nuestras vidas son los ríos..."), this poetry collection is a meditation on time, memory, family and the fleeting nature of life. I exercise the artist's prerogative to give shape to my experience, reaching beyond the merely...
Latest News & Events
- Café Olé: "NuYorican!! Una cultura con dos raíces"
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 - Women in French sponsored panel organized by Professor Cybelle H. McFadden. Talks by Professor McFadden and Sarah Peterson, UNCG BA and MA alum
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Thursday, April 18, 2013 - SEWSA Conference: German Panel with talks by Professors Dwyer, Knight, and Kreitinger
Thursday, April 18, 2013
LLC Series
The Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures hosts two lecure series: the LLC Works! series and the LLC Speakers series. Find out more here!
Scholarships
Each semester LLC awards substantial scholarships to majors and graduate students in French and Spanish, and to majors and minors in German. Find out more here!
