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The Department of Romance Studies is home to 51 full-time faculty, 27 part-time Lecturers, and 29 Teaching Fellows pursuing the M.A. or Ph.D in French or Spanish.  Our offices are found at two locations along Commonwealth Avenue: the French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish programs are at 718 Commonwealth Avenue, while the Linguistics Program is at 621 Commonwealth Avenue, The teaching and research resources of Romance Studies are complemented by those of our sister department, Modern Languages and Comparative Literature.  Together, these two departments have over 9,000 enrollments per year, teaching language, literature, culture, and linguistics to students from CAS and throughout Boston University.

Why Study French, Italian, Linguistics, Portuguese, or Spanish?

In this era of increasing globalization, the command of foreign languages has become a necessity in our engagement with the worlds of contemporary science, technology, business, and diplomacy. There are, of course, many other pleasures to be had from mastery of a second language, including access to great literary and cinematic masterpieces. Join us to live, learn, and grow beyond the current borders of your world!

Study Abroad

Through Study Abroad our students study, and sometimes do internships, in our programs in Buenos Aires, Lima, Madrid, Quito, Paris, Grenoble, Dakar, and Padova.

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