Department: European Languages & Literature

The mission of Queens College is to prepare students to become leaders in a global society. It is therefore important to teach them the critical thinking skills necessary to understand a world that increasingly provides for interaction between people of different languages and cultures. The college achieves this mission by offering a rigorous education under the guidance of faculty who excel in teaching and research. Our graduates are trained to think critically and explore the diverse cultures of Queens County as well as those of the world beyond. The faculty members of the Department of European Languages and Literatures play a key role in helping the college to meet its goals. Through training in the literatures and cultures of Europe, we teach our students to better understand some of the people they will come in contact within a global society. The languages we teach were spoken by generations of immigrants to America, and they are all still spoken in Queens today—by families that have maintained ties to the languages of their forebears and by recent immigrants.

The Department of European Languages and Literatures trains its students in the acquisition of French, German, Italian, Modern Greek and Russian, from elementary to advanced levels of proficiency. It provides students with cultural literacy across some of the major European civilizations, through a range of courses in culture, cinema, literature and linguistics. Our courses foster critical thinking in our students that they apply to civilizations they study. The Department offers baccalaureate degrees in four languages and advanced degrees (MA/MS in Education) in French and Italian, helping prepare those who go on to teach in secondary schools or pursue the doctoral degree in those areas. Through our summer-, semester-, and year-abroad programs, we offer students the opportunity to put the skills they have learned in the classroom into practice in the real world. Our programs provide students the training they need to excel in a world where people of different cultures and languages interact with far more frequency and ease than ever before.

Office Location: Queens Hall 200

Office Phone Number: 718-997-5980

Department Website: https://www.qc.cuny.edu/academics/ell/

Department Chair: David Andrew Jones david.jones@qc.cuny.edu

Advisors

EURO: David Andrew Jones. david.jones@qc.cuny.edu

French: Regine Joseph. Regine.joseph@qc.cuny.edu

German: Christine Spreizer. Christine.Spreizer@qc.cuny.edu

Italian: Morena Corradi. Morena.corradi@qc.cuny.edu

Modern Greek: Gerasimus Katsan. Gerasimus.katsan@qc.cuny.edu

Russian: Svetlana Cheloukhina. Svetlana.cheloukhina@qc.cuny.edu