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Languages & Literatures

Welcome to the Department of Languages & Literatures
at the University of Denver!

The Department of Languages and Literatures offers the following undergraduate programs: majors and minors in French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish; minors in Classics, Japanese, and Chinese; beginning levels of study in Hebrew (through the Center for Judaic Studies) and Arabic.

We situate your learning of language, literature and culture in our community at large by means of a state-of-the-art computer facilities, Internet communications, World Wide Web resources, internships in Denver-area businesses, and study abroad programs around the globe. We breathe living languages. Come expand your world with us.

Breugel's Tower of Babel

Proficiency and placement examinations for both undergraduate and graduate students are available during SOAR (Student Orientation and Registration) in early September of every academic year (see DU's Language Proficiency Requirement), though they can also be arranged at other times. Please contact the Department of Languages and Literatures (Sturm Hall 346, telephone: 303.871.2662, 303.871.2180 fax: 303.871.4555) to arrange an examination and/or to obtain more information.

Department Administration

  • Dr. Victor Castellani
    Department Chair
    Sturm Hall 327
    303.871.2022
    vcastell@du.edu
  • Diane De Rose
    Assistant to the Chair
    Sturm Hall 345
    303.871.2181
    dderose@du.edu
  • Jeffrey Quinlisk
    Office Assistant IV
    Sturm Hall 346
    303.871.2180
    jquinlis@du.edu
  • Dave Sawyer
    Instructional Technologist, AH/SS
    Sturm Hall 4th Floor
    303.871.2152
    dsawyer@du.edu
  • Jenna Webb
    Office Assistant IV
    Sturm Hall 346
    303.871.6662

         

 

*Monument in Moscow*,
Oleksei 
Shovkunenko (born Odessa 1884), from the Virtual Museum of Political Art, 
Horvath Collection (www.medicalnet.at/horvath/contents.htm).