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Discover the political and social evolutions of France, Dante’s Divine Comedy, the relationship between language and cultural identity, human and machine translation, and the cultural history of Italy and the Francophone world.

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Featured Course

FRENCH 228 A: The Water Crisis in Literature and Cinema

Spring 2025

Through an engagement with the arts understood broadly, this course aims to surface the factors across time and in a variety of cultures that have led to the contemporary water crisis.

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Upcoming French & Italian Courses in Spring 2025

The Department of French & Italian Studies is offering a variety of exciting classes this Spring! Read below to check out some of our classes and their descriptions! If you have any questions regarding our courses, please reach out to frenital@uw.edu.