Hélène Vilavella-Collins, Senior Lecturer, French and Italian Studies, was awarded a Business Language Grant to great a new course featuring Québec businesses. This summer quarter Hélène Vilavella-Collins a Senior Lecturer in the Department of French and Italian Studies revised her course FRENCH 313 to focus on business in France and Québec. French 313: French for

Twenty French educators from across the state enjoyed an all-day workshop on Québec, in French, from l’Université Laval’s director of language programs. The Canadian Studies Center, in partnership with UW’s Department of French and Italian Studies, Language Learning Center, UW in the High School and the Government of Québec, provided the all-day workshop “Le Québec,

In July, Hedwige Meyer, French and Italian Studies, traveled to Montréal and Québec City to conduct a site visit to build a study-in-Québec program for UW students, and to identify colleagues and content for an educator workshop for French instructors on Québec and francophone Canada. In Québec City, she met with representatives from the Ministry

Professor Fritz Wagner, a faculty member in the Department of Urban Design and Planning, gave a talk called “Urban Planning and the Politics of Decision Making: Insights into New Orleans and Aspects of Resilience” on January 26, 2019, to 14 graduate students of the Graduate School of Land Management and Regional Planning at Université Laval

Originally posted: June 2015 The following is a culmination of the student comments from the their travels to Québec as part of the URBDP 498 course. These comments illustrate the value of the field course to the understanding and future research and careers of the participating students. “Taking this class provided a wonderful opportunity to

Originally posted: June 2014 La Famille Léger just released a brand-new album, L’Etoile du Nord, drawn from their research and travels. It’s chock full of French-Canadian music, mostly from Acadian sources. Louis Léger, the group’s patriarch, grew up in both Moncton, New Brunswick, and Québec City, so there are influences from Québec as well. La

Originally posted: February 2014 This quarter UW students will study how Québécois writers and filmmakers coped with the rapid and radical changes of the 1960s’ Quiet Revolution in the course “Québécois Literature.” The class is taught by Associate Professor of French Denyse Delcourt and offered jointly by the French and Italian Studies department and the

Originally posted: May 2013 In COM 201 Introduction to Communication I, students are introduced to the history of mass communication and how the usage of various traditional media have changed in the new media context. Additionally, as a requirement for the Communication major, this survey course introduces students to the discipline of communication and how

Originally posted: March 2013 Joël’s talk looked at how Canada’s foreign policy for the circumpolar world started to emerge in the 1950s as part of bilateral Canadian and American defense relations in the North American Arctic. While both countries continued to engage bilaterally in that region throughout the 1960s till the 1980s, mainly (but not

Originally posted: July 2012 The Canadian Studies Center was awarded $45,000 from the Government of Québec under the Québec Visiting Professor Grant and Québec Unit Grant. The Québec Visiting Professor Grant will enable Joël Plouffe, Research Fellow, Center for the United States and Center for Geopolitical Studies, Raoul Dandurand Chair of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies,