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Lyon Summer Program
The program provides students the opportunity to live and study in France for seven weeks (corresponding to the first summer session), to develop French language skills and experience a different cultural environment. Students earn six credit hours for two courses.
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Bologna Study Program
An intensive language and culture program open to all registered undergraduate and graduate students. Italian families host students providing an in-depth experience of Italian lifestyle and language. Students spend six weeks in Bologna and earn from 3 to 6 credit hours
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Parma Maymester Program
“Sustainable Cinema in Italy” is a maymester program directed by the Department of French and Italian of the University of Texas at Austin in cooperation with 24FPS, a community of filmmakers, artists, and educators in Parma, Italy. The program provides students the opportunity to live and study in Italy for three weeks and earn 3 credit hours.
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Spotlights:
Dr. Hervé Picherit
Dr. Hervé Picherit, Associate Professor, received his PhD in French Studies from Stanford University (2008) and has been a member of the Department of French and Italian at UT since 2012. The questions framing his research interests are about individual and shared strategies of aesthetic self-fashioning, in particular those that individuals or groups adopt in the face of traumatic upheavals. In pursuit of these questions, he has explored the fields of twentieth century French literature, the novel, film, and the avant-garde.
Dylan Gilbert (Graduate)
Dylan Gilbert is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in Italian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. After graduating first-gen from Middlebury College, he received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Italy where he taught at two high schools in the small coastal town of Policoro (MT), Basilicata. His current interests include French and Italian environmental histories, nuclear anxieties, and toxicity. He currently serves as the Academic Affairs Director for the Graduate Student Assembly.
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Alessandro Cavedoni Villegas (Undergraduate)
Alessandro was born in Venezuela and is a descendant of an Italian World War II refugee. Escaping political persecution, Alessandro and his family relocated to Houston in 2019 upon being granted asylum. Inspired by his background, Alessandro exhibits an unrelenting commitment for the study of humanitarian migration, especially in Latin America and the Mediterranean. In 2022, Alessandro was admitted to the University of Texas at Austin and is currently a candidate for the degrees of Government and Italian Studies, B.A. Alessandro aspires to attend law school and pursue a career as an immigration lawyer. His pastimes include cooking, playing the violin, and reading books about politics.
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Why Study Italian
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