Main Departmental Office
Language Building, Room 101

Mailing address:
1155 Union Circle #311127
Denton, TX 76203-5017
940-565-2404

Fax: 940-565-2581
Web site: www.forl.unt.edu

Marie-Christine Koop, Chair

Faculty 

The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures offers graduate programs in the following areas:

• Master of Arts with a major in French 
• Master of Arts with a major in Spanish 

Graduate students may pursue minors in French or Spanish.

Graduate students have the opportunity to use the target language in their courses at UNT and can participate in the Study Abroad Program. French majors, through the French Co-op Program, have the opportunity to spend a year in France with a teaching position in English in Longuenesse or Tours. Summer study programs are also available at the University of Strasbourg for French, and in Valencía for Spanish.

Research

Research conducted by departmental faculty members in Spanish includes second-language acquisition, cultural studies, Spanish and Latin American poetry, contemporary Spanish-American literature, Spanish literature of the Golden Age, Latino and Latin American theatre, Mexican literature and culture, literary theory and women’s studies. Spanish literature of the 19th and 20th centuries is another area of interest. Faculty in the field of French specialize in second-language acquisition; culture and civilization; Medieval literature; literature of the 16th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries; literary theory; women’s studies; and Québec. Research in German includes applied linguistics and German literature of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

French, German and Spanish Summer Institutes

(summer MA program in French and Spanish; graduate courses in German)

Following the immersion principle, every June the French, German and Spanish Summer Institutes offer two graduate courses over a four-week period divided into two two-week sessions. This program enables graduate students to earn an MA in French or Spanish over four summers of course work supplemented by additional courses taken during the fall or spring term/semester, transfer credits and/or study in France or Spain. All students may combine courses taken during the fall and spring terms/semesters with courses taken during the French, German or Spanish Summer Institute. Advanced undergraduate students may register for the French or Spanish Summer Institute and receive credits at the 4000 level.