The May 2019 SLCL Convocation ceremony took place in Foellinger Auditorium on Saturday, May 11. The featured speaker was Harriet Murav, from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Program in Comparative and World Literature. Murav is the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies.
The gateway to a global learning experienceSLCL provides instruction in more than 35 languages, and we offer study abroad residential programs that have served more than 500 participants since 2009.
Local and Global ImpactThe contributions of our alumni and students reach far and deep, from humanitarian aid to computational linguistics.
An active, Award-winning facultyOur diverse and talented faculty have received national and international awards and fellowships for their scholarship, teaching, and service.
LAS: S&P Study Abroad in BarcelonaBarcelona program group at Dalí Theatre-Museum.
Illinois Program in ParisIllinois Program in Paris group at Vaux-le-Vicomte in Maincy, France.
Illinois Year-in-Japan ProgramThe Illinois Year-in-Japan Program is one of several study abroad opportunities offered through the School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics.
“Spanish in the Community,” a 200-level course begun in 2005, will this fall become the first General Education (“Gen ED”) course the U of I will offer in a language other than English.
The Department of Classics at Illinois has received from LAS alumnus George Reveliotis an endowment commitment of $1.5 million, one of the largest gifts to a humanities program on campus.
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School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Statistics
- of Grant Funding for Research since 2009
- Faculty and Teaching Staff
- 23 Majors, 18 Minors & 15 Concentrations
- Graduate Programs, 300+ Graduate Students
- Undergraduate Student Majors
- Instructional Credit Hours Offered Per/Year
