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Romance Languages and Literatures

2023 RLL Commencement Ceremony Invitation for graduating majors, minors, and their guests. Thursday April 27 at 2:00-3:30pm. Michigan Theater 603 E Liberty Street Ann Arbor MI 48104.
Graduation & Commencement
Major in a Romance Language Photo of Rainbow Mountain in Peru by Spanish major Emily Bacon.
Study Romance Languages Abroad Photo of Spanish major Jenny Choi in Pucón, Chile.
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Recent News

Spanish Minor McKenzie Ely Discovers and Develops Interests in Medicine, Translation, Research, and Teaching

McKenzie Ely discusses her passion for patient care, medical research, language learning, translation, and how these interests intersect.

Spanish Major Coursework Provides Strong Foundation for Zoe Barnett’s Career in Medicine

From Latin American Poetry to Reggaeton: How Spanish classes make a mark on this future doctor!

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Welcome to Romance Languages and Literatures

With over 750 million global speakers, learning a Romance language opens doors in the global community. The communication, critical and creative thinking skills coupled with the global perspective that our program fosters, are invaluable to a variety of career paths such as business, law, education, medicine, government, the arts, and social work. Whether in Ann Arbor or Argentina, Spain, Italy or Brazil, our alumni have innumerable opportunities to make differences in the lives of others.

RLL students have the opportunity to study in diverse locations including Buenos Aires, Dakar, São Paulo, Granada, Bologna, Paris, and many more. By providing insight into the social and intellectual life of other peoples, studying a Romance Language fosters humanistic attitudes and cultivates a spirit of tolerance and understanding.

RLL Statement Regarding Gender Identity and Diversity

In RLL, we recognize that personal self-identification should not be subject to debate. We also acknowledge that students are most successful at learning when they feel represented in an inclusive environment that is respectful of diversity. As cultural contexts evolve, so do language systems and how they adapt to these contexts. Therefore, we share the idea that encouraging a multiplicity of experiences and identities in the classroom is essential to an effective educational environment.At the same time, we realize that language textbooks and language-teaching practices may take time to catch up in acknowledging the many identities that students hold. To make our courses more inclusive, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures is taking the following steps to understand and address the evolving needs of our gender-diverse community:

1) hereby elaborating a statement to recognize and support a gender-diverse community in RLL;

2) identifying present limitations and perceived barriers to inclusivity in the foreign-language teaching/learning context;

3) collectively sharing a list of best teaching practices, such as incorporating options for students to pick non-binary pronouns, when available, in the RLL courses they take;

4) designing workshops and discussion events to evaluate how RLL can further emphasize inclusion, in the case that Romance languages cannot offer non-binary alternatives;

5) collaborating with gender-diverse students to ensure that curricula are designed to best respect their identities and have appropriate discussions surrounding the evolving use of gender in language.

Learn more about our committment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

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Apr
05
Building Allyship Toward a Gender-Inclusive Campus Community
Challenging cisgenderism and promoting allyship for trans and nonbinary faculty, staff and students
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