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The Department of Romance Language and Literatures offers language courses in French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. There is also a limited Catalan offering. In all four major languages, our courses have substantive content related to all aspects of culture, including literature, enhancing the intellectual experience of learning a language. The high enrollments in French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese allow us to provide variety at all levels, so that students can find courses corresponding to their interests. In our fifth language, Catalan, we have a first-year sequence, and students can pursue their Catalan study further through special arrangement. Please consult the course descriptions for Catalan, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese, along with the individual course web pages to obtain more detailed information. Be sure to peruse the link bar at right,

	Catalan	French	Italian	Portuguese	Spanish
1st Year	Ba	A, Ax, Bab	Aa, Ab, Ax, Bab	A, Ac, Ad, Ba	Aa, Ab, Acd, Ax,
2nd Year	20	Ca, Cb, 25, [FC22a]	Ca, Cb, Dab	Ca, Cb	C
3rd Year	91r	31, 35, 36, [FC22b]	[33], 35, 36	37	30
4th Year	91r	42, 48b, 51, 53, 55 60, 65	40, [41], 44, [48], [50], [60], 82, 88	44, 60	40, 50, 60, [65]

SECTIONING FOR ROMANCE LANGUAGE COURSES

To choose a section for a lettered or numbered language course (numbers 60 and under) in French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, students should fill out an online sectioning form on the respective course ISite. (Please see the table above or the course catalog.) Once students have filled out and submitted the form, they will receive notification by email of the date, time, and location of the first

Check the course's ISite to ascertain the first class meeting of language courses: not all begin on the first official day of class.

LANGUAGE TABLES

Check out the Language Tables hosted by individual Houses. These are an excellent way to keep up your language skills outside of class. You can share a meal and speak without fear of making mistakes.

TUTORING CENTER

The Tutoring Center is a free service offered to any student currently enrolled in a Department of Romance Languages and Literatures course! Ask your instructor for the user ID and password.

LANGUAGE COURSE HEADS

Catalan	Brad Epps
French	Carole Bergin Lison Baselis-Bitoun Marlies Mueller
Italian	Elvira Di Fabio Chiara Frenquellucci Giuliana Minghelli
Portuguese	Clémence Jouët-Pastré
Spanish	Adriana Gutiérrez Nina Ingrao Johanna Liander

Last updated on January 21, 2010