The offices of the Department of Languages & Literatures will be closed for maintenance from December 8th to December 17th. Please contact Matthew at 303-871-2662 or email him at matthew.scarborough@du.edu with any and all inquiries. All mail and deliveries can be addressed to the our posted address. Thank you and have a wonderful winter break!
The AMICI of the University of Denver have released their Autumn 2011 newsletter, "La Voce Degli Amici." Click here to read more!
The DU Latino Center for Community Engagement and Scholarship and the Center for Judaic Studies have teamed up to bring you a program exploring Jewish Latin American Art and Poetry:
The October 1st application deadline nears for Lydia Gil-Kef's Winter Interim Course in Argentina! E-mail her at Lydia.Gil@du.edu for more information.
Welcome back students!
It has been a busy and eventful summer here at Languages & Literatures and we are happy to have our returning students as well as incoming freshman and transfer students on campus.
Joining our faculty this quarter are Assistant Professor of Italian Gian Maria Annovi, Lecturer of Russian Mila Shevchenko and Lecturer of Spanish Alicia Barron-Lopez. The three bring a wealth of expertise to their respective sections.
Be sure to check this page regularly for announcements pertaining to events, study abroad programs and other L&L related functions!
L&L Faculty in the News
We are very proud to announce that DU Professor of Spanish Ralph DiFranco has been chosen as the recipient of the 2011 José Vasconcelos International Award! Read more about this honor here. Find out more about José Vasconcelos and the award here.
Instructor of Hebrew Sari Havis was featured in DU Today over the summer. Click here to read more about how she's helping students "experience" Hebrew.
Alison Krogel, Assistant Professor of Spanish, recently published a book on the important aspects of food in Quechua culture that was recently featured in a DU Today article which you can find here.
The Center for World Languages and Cultures
The Center of World Languages and Cultures (located in Sturm Hall 201) now handles all undergraduate and graduate placement testing. Please click here to learn more information about language testing at DU.
As it grows the CWLC will become a more integral part to the language learning experience here at DU. They curated the inaugural Summer Language Institute and plans are in the works for SLI 2012. You can read more about this past summer’s programs in Arabic and French here.
Furthermore, the CWLC is once again offering its free of charge peer tutoring for DU students “preparing for language proficiency exams, seeking extra help in language courses or practicing conversation in a foreign language.” Read more about the CWLC’s tutoring policies and procedures here.
The CWLC Autumn 2011 Tutoring Schedule:
Arabic
- Monday: 2-4pm
Chinese
- Monday: 3-5pm
- Wednesday: 4-6pm
French
- Monday: 10am-12pm
- Tuesday: 2-4pm
- Wednesday: 10am-12pm
- Thursday: 12-2pm
German
- Monday: 1-3pm
- Thursday: 3-5pm
Italian
- Wednesday: 3-5pm
Japanese
- Monday: 1-5pm
- Wednesday: 4-6pm
- Thursday: 3-5pm
Russian
Spanish
- Monday: 1-4pm
- Tuesday: 1-3pm
- Wednesday: 1-4pm
- Thursday: 1-5pm
