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• On 2/16/12 Timothy Sergay was interviewed by journalist Vlad Morozov about Aleksandr Chudakov and Professor Sergay's translation of his novel. The interview aired on Radio Liberty’s Russian-language service, Radio Svoboda, 4/30/12.
  
  

• Congratulations to SUNY CRUE scholarship recipients: David Benedict (Spanish major/French and Linguistics minor), Farrell Luttinger (French (Honors) major and Spanish 2nd major), Christopher Lennon (Spanish major) and Ana Urena (Spanish BA/MA). These scholarships are awarded to students planning to become teachers and only 10 are given each year.
  
  
• Kudos to LLC undergraduate French major/Spanish minor, Pamela Alvarado, who received the Presidential Award for Undergraduate Research for her project "Variation and Maintenance of Spanish in Colorado: The Case of Fort Lupton".
  
  
• Undergraduate French major John Teevan III was awarded a Presidential Award for Undergraduate Research for his Honors Thesis in French Studies (with Professor Jean-François Brière): “Golden Age or Rusted Decline? The Successes and Failures of the Third Republic in France, 1870-1940.”
  
  
• 4/1/12 - Congratulations to President's Award for Leadership recipients: Michael Brown (SPN minor), Sara Cole (SPN major), Jillian Egan (SPN minor), Emily Finnegan (SPN minor), Nicoletta Gallo (ITA major), and Matthew Russo (SPN minor).
  
  
• Congratulations to Mary Beth Winn, who is one of the College of Arts and Sciences "Featured Faculty 2011-12" after the last two volumes of her co-edited work on the chansons of Thomas Crocquillion were published in October 2011.
  
  
• Kudos to Eloise Brière who published J'aime New York, 2nd Edition A Bilingual Guide to the French Heritage of New York State / Guide bilingue de l’héritage français de l’état de New York (SUNY Press) in January. Her work has recently been noted on the French Culture website.
  
  
• Fall 2012- World Languages and Cultures, an international Living-Learning Community for students of Arabic, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish. Details here.
  
  
• LLC’s minors in Russian and French were restored in fall and as of January 2012 the Italian minor was also reinstated.  LLC students can once again minor in 6 languages:  FRE, HEB, ITA, POR, RUS, and SPN!  Students wishing to major in French, Italian or Russian Studies may do so by declaring a student-initiated interdisciplinary major as below.
  
  

Student Initiated Interdisciplinary Major

• As of 3/24/11 the University at Albany’s president discontinued the:
  FRE PhD, MA, and major
  ITA major
  RUS major
  
  As a result students cannot declare a new major in FRE, ITA and RUS at this time. Students may individually request the creation of a student-initiated interdisciplinary major in these areas. Interested students should contact a faculty member in the language program of interest to begin the process as soon as possible. Contact the LLC office at 442-4222 or 442-4100 if questions.
  
  What’s required:
  
  
1. a minimum of 36 credits for majors and 18 credits for minors
2. at least one course outside the language of interest (should be supplemental the major/minor language coursework)
3. 1 language faculty sponsor for the minor or 2 faculty sponsors for the major (one in the language program and one in another department in which the student is taking coursework for that degree). 
4. a written proposal from the student with a schedule of classes to be taken to complete the degree (for courses currently being offered: http://www.albany.edu/registrar/schedule_of_classes.html, for courses available at the university: http://www.albany.edu/undergraduate_bulletin/cas.html note: not all courses are offered every year—check with the departments about their planned offerings)
5. a rationale from the student for why a separate student-initiated interdisciplinary degree is needed and why these courses were chosen.  
6. then the completed proposal must be submitted to Undergraduate Studies in LC30 to be reviewed and approved by the Interdisciplinary Studies Committee.
   
   

   
   
   

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