Welcome to the Department of French and Italian at Brigham Young University! With more than 1,500 students enrolled every semester, our department is one of the largest of its kind in North America . As you navigate through this website, you will discover that we offer a wide range of courses from beginning language courses to graduate seminars in literature, culture, pedagogy and linguistics.
Thanks to a young and dynamic faculty recognized nationally and internationally, we are able to provide an exceptional liberal arts training that sharpens communicative, analytical and interpretive skills that will be beneficial to students whatever career they decide to choose in the future.
Besides the pages devoted to our various academic programs, leading to the Bachelors in French and Italian studies as well as the Masters of Arts in French studies, I especially invite you to open those describing our Study Abroad programs, our Language House, our Internship programs, etc. They illustrate clearly our conviction that language fluency and cultural understanding can often be better acquired out of the classroom.
Enjoy your visit and please do not hesitate to contact me personally for more information about our department.
Yvon Le Bras, Chair
3134A JFSB
Provo, UT 84602
(801) 422-2288
yvon_lebras@byu.edu