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Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Arabic, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

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       CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NEW GRADUATES!

                            
Understanding how our world, its past, present, and future, is shared and shaped by cultures other than our familiar English-speaking one is among the most important aims of an undergraduate education. Studying any of the eight languages offered by LLC (Arabic, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish) can be your key to that understanding.

Skills developed in language study contribute to lifelong cognitive health and are highly valued across many fields and career paths. These skills include interpersonal communication, intercultural sensitivity, writing skills, critical reasoning and adaptability.

Our students are in every field, including: Education; Language Services; Healthcare; Business, Banking, and Finance; Government and Diplomacy; Law and Criminal Justice; International Non-Profits; International Aid and Development; International Research and Data; Media and Publishing; Communications and Journalism.

LLC hosts a variety of extracurricular activities

Language tables and clubs meet regularly during the academic year (suspended over breaks and summer) to speak the language in informal settings and enjoy time with friends.

LLC Seminars provide a variety of academic topics engaging LLC, the university and the community. 

Our annual Living in Languages Conference focuses on issues of “translation” in a literal, but also an expanded sense, from questions of reading and ideology to translation understood as exile, displacement geographical and linguistic, and translation in our era of Twitter/X consciousness, warring media bubbles, and the screen as public space (conference journal).

French Diplôme de français professionnel (DFP) - UAlbany is a certified testing site offering the French DFP Affaires, an internationally recognized certification of competence in Business French from the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry.  The DFP (level) A2 exam is open to the public and offered every May (we do not currently administer the TEF exam).  Business French (AFRE270) is offered each spring to help prepare for the exam.  French faculty from other institutions are welcome to coordinate opportunities for their students to take the course and/or the exam.  Questions?  Contact site coordinator Véronique Martin ([email protected]) or the LLC Office 518-442-4100. 

As well as guest speakers, film screenings, and other special events.  

Come be part of the community as we connect, explore and learn together!

 

 

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Recent Publications by LLC Faculty
Ecofictions, Ecorealities, and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World. Edited By Ilka Kressner, Ana María Mutis, Elizabeth Pettinaroli
Study Abroad and the Second Language Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation in Spanish
Tristan, chevalier de la Table Ronde. Tome II Roman imprimé en 1489 par Jehan Le Bourgois pour Anthoine Vérard. Edited by Mary Beth Winn
Diglossia and Language Contact Language Variation and Change in North Africa. By Lotfi Sayahi.
Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and Film. By Carmen A. Serrano
Annali d’Italianistica 2019: Urban Space and the Body
Les Français (Fourth Edition) Book Cover. People with white umbrellas waiting in line.
Poems from the Front: A Moscow Anthology
News and Announcements
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Desire for Patient Connection Inspires Future Doctor’s Spanish Language Journey
UAlbany track and field captain Leann Nicholas is graduating this weekend from UAlbany’s Honors College after majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology and Spanish. The aspiring doctor hopes her Spanish language proficiency will help her establish deeper connections with vulnerable patient populations.
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Transformational Teaching Celebrated at UAlbany as New Ember Award is Announced
The University at Albany recently recognized faculty members who have gone above and beyond to support students at its annual Spark and Torch Awards ceremony, held April 11 in the Campus Center Multipurpose Room.
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2025 Spanish Language Immersion Summer Camp!
UAlbany's 2025 summer camps for students ages 13-18 include a Spanish immersion in language and culture camp (7/14/25-7/18/25), a great opportunity for students to build language skills and explore a variety of Hispanic cultures.
Elizabeth Vasquez & Carmen Serrano receive the Dr. Stephanie Hassan Richardson Award
BILPOC Leaders Recognized with Award
BILPOC's highly visible and successful work on the UAlbany campus and in SUNY the last several years has gained much attention, and most recently an award!
Mauricio Rodriguez, FRE Minor, Chancellors Award winner 2025
French minor wins Chancellor's Award
French minor Mauricio Rodriguez is being honored 4/29/25 with the highest SUNY undergraduate honor, the Chancellor's Award!

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Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences
Humanities 235

1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12222
United States

Email
[email protected]
Phone
518-442-4100
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Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.