Home to 15 different language programs, LLC offers training in languages and cultures from all corners of the globe. From Swahili to Italian, Russian to Vietnamese, we give our students the opportunity to become cross-cultural experts in an ever more internationalized world.
LLC programs offer the chance to explore a single language or dual language option as well as the opportunity to study culture through a range of interdisciplinary lenses: Intensive Area Studies, Comparative Cultural Studies, Film and Visual Culture, Literary Studies, and Medieval and Early Modern Studies. We are also offering beginning language instruction to college students from other State University System institutions through the new UF-CLAS Shared Language Program.
Whichever track you choose, a major in Foreign Languages and Literatures provides an excellent basis for advanced graduate study and for a variety of careers in fields such as education, international development, diplomacy and government, national security, communications, law, journalism, arts and culture, medicine, publishing, and global business and finance.
Undergraduate Coordinators
Department Chair: Alioune Sow (sow@ufl.edu)
African Languages: Kole Odutola (kodutola@ufl.edu)
Arabic: Salah Algabli (salahalgabli@ufl.edu)
Chinese: Ying Xiao (yx241@ufl.edu)
Dual Languages: Sylvie Blum (sylblum@ufl.edu)
French and Francophone Studies: Theresa Antes (antes@ufl.edu)
German: Will Hasty (hasty@ufl.edu)
Haitian Creole: Benjamin Hebblethwaite (hebble@ufl.edu)
Hebrew: Roy Holler (royholler@ufl.edu)
Italian: Deborah Amberson (dambers@ufl.edu)
Japanese: Christopher Smith (csmith2@ufl.edu)
Russian: Ingrid Kleespies (iakl@ufl.edu)
Vietnamese: Andrea Pham (apham@ufl.edu)