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Aug 18, 2015

Students Recognized for Service, Leadership

NC State’s Alumni Association pays special attention to students who emerge as campus leaders, knowing the special traits these undergraduates hone here will serve them – and the wider world – once they graduate. Each year, the Alumni Association recognizes a few of the university’s seniors who are role models for leadership and service with the Mathews Medal. Two of the four 2015 recipients are Humanities and Social Sciences students: Austin Bath and Alex Parker.

Aug 16, 2015

A Welcome Letter from our Department Head

Welcome to the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at NC State. Using our website, you can browse through our department, meet our faculty and staff, learn about our courses and study abroad opportunities, review the degree requirements for our undergraduate and graduate programs, and much more! Through our programs we invite you to develop a broad…

Aug 6, 2015

Sixteen(!) Tenure-Track Faculty Join Humanities and Social Sciences in Fall 2015

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences welcomes 16 new tenure-track faculty to its ranks this fall. Their research interests range from public budgeting and finance to adolescent mental health, creative writing, and strategic management. Meet these stellar scholars, researchers and teachers.

Jul 10, 2015

What Can You Do with a Degree in Humanities & Social Sciences? Anything You Want and in 12 Different Languages!

What can you do with a degree in Humanities & Social Sciences? “Anything you want!,” advises Humanities & Social Sciences’ Dean Jeff Braden. NC State University’s College of Humanities & Social Sciences offers students a wide array of graduate and undergraduate programs and disciplines, including a major with concentrations in four different foreign languages, a…

Jun 30, 2015

French Minor Uses Her Study Abroad Experiences to Better Prepare for a Future Medical Career

For Laila Knio ‘17, a Park Scholar and French minor, the summer of 2014 was a very busy year. In May, she traveled to France as part of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures‘ Paris, Normandy, and Lille Study Abroad Program. In a recent interview with Lauren Vanderveen, Laila describes her Study Abroad experience this way: “We spent a week in…

Jun 25, 2015

Rubik’s Cube: Easier Than English?

Zeli “Jeff” Qian is a cubist — as in Rubik’s Cube. The Zhejiang Province native can finish the cube-shaped puzzle in 18.27 seconds, a time that’s listed in the World Cube Association’s record books. Qian brought that same determination to NC State, where he’s studying mechanical engineering. He’s also honing his English speaking, writing and research skills through Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures courses for non-native speakers of English.

Jun 25, 2015

Greg Dawes Presents His Latest Book on Pablo Neruda at the Poet’s Home in Santiago

Last April 14, 2015, Foreign Languages and Literatures‘ Distinguished Professor Greg Dawes was invited to the Pablo Neruda Foundation in Santiago, Chile, to present his latest book Multiforme y comprometido. Neruda después de 1956 (RIL, 2015). In the following video clip (in Spanish), Dawes reads the Introduction of his book during the event celebrated at Neruda’s former residence…

Jun 23, 2015

In the Spotlight: Susan Navey-Davis, 2014-2015 Faculty Advisor Award Winner

Foreign Languages and Literatures’ Director of Undergraduate Advising Susan Navey-Davis was among five NC State academic advisers who were recently recognized by the Office of Academic Advising Services with the 2014-2015 Undergraduate Advising Awards. Born in North Carolina, Susan has been teaching for thirty-five years — twenty-eight of them at NC State. For about twenty of her many years at State, she…

May 25, 2015

Una noche de poesía … A Poetry Night with Sigma Delta Pi

“Each poem is unique,” Mexican poet and Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz once said, and “all poetry, with greater or lesser intensity, is latent in each work.” And that precisely is what AP Spanish students learned last April when the NC State chapter of the Spanish Honor Society Sigma Delta Pi held a “Poetry Night” for students from…

Apr 23, 2015

Jordi Marí Receives the 2014-2015 Lonnie and Carol Poole Award for Excellence in Teaching

Foreign Languages and Literatures professor Dr. Jordi Marí received the 2014-2015 Lonnie and Carol Poole Award for Excellence in Teaching during a ceremony celebrated on April 21, 2015 in Caldwell Hall Lounge. The Lonnie and Carol Poole Award recognizes outstanding NC State faculty for their excellence in teaching. A native from Barcelona, Spain, Marí has been…