LLC AT A GLANCE

LLC's programs help provide the tools you need to communicate in and understand an ever-changing world.

 

• LLC’s 40+ faculty regularly teach 10 languages: Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish
• LLC Majors:  French, Italian, Russian and Spanish
• LLC Minors: French, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish
• Students can create a major or minor if an official major or minor is not available, for more information see: Academics or contact Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Studies
• Graduate degrees: French and Spanish
• LLC offers 200+ courses each year in language, literature, the cultures of the languages studied, and cinema
• LLC enrolls nearly 4000 students each year
• UAlbany offers 9 of the top 11 languages spoken in the world
• Many LLC faculty are not just bilingual, but multi-lingual
• LLC's faculty are from/have ties to over 30 countries
• LLC grads go on to a wide variety of career fields: Translation, Teaching, Quality Assurance, Healthcare and Social Service, Editing, Government Research, FBI, Intelligence Community, Military Service, Business, Financial Industries, Hospitality and Travel, Foreign Service, Marketing, Publishing, Consulting, United Nations, Nongovernmental organizations and more.
• LLC faculty have diverse research interests that include:
  medieval French, illuminated manuscripts, women's writing in West Africa/African diaspora, forgery, French linguistic change over time in the US, Russian literature, translation, Russian guitar poets, avant garde, modernismo, space in art, feminist and gender studies, postmodernism, sociolinguistics, Baroque theater, 2nd language acquisition.