IWL Distinguished Undergraduate Award Winners 2024
Congratulations to Spanish students Luis M. Ruano Campos, Aden Bilchick, and Brenna Meehan and Portuguese student William Woodford who were awarded this year’s Distinguished Undergrad Awards!
Graduation
The Graduation Ceremony for the Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese will follow the Lawn Ceremony on Saturday, May 18 at 1:30 p.m. The ceremony will be in the Culbreth Theatre (Drama Building), located at 109 Culbreth Road. (This is also the inclement weather location.)
Ceremonial scrolls will be awarded to students in the Spanish Graduate Program, along with majors in the Italian Studies Program, the Latin American Studies Program and the Spanish Undergraduate Program.
Additional information about the ceremony:
Congratulations Elizabeth!
Spanish Ph.D. student Elizabeth Mirabal has been announced as the 2024 Tibor Wlassics Dante Fellowship winner. Her project, titled “El infierno carece de sonrisa”: Dante’s Cuban Literary Legacies, aims to research the enduring interest of Cuba in Dante’s literary works, starting from the long tradition of exile and insilio (internal exile) among its writers and, particularly, poets. Funded by Luciana Wlassics, the Tibor Wlassics Dante Research Fellowship is awarded annually to a graduate student pursuing research on Dante.
Active Learning Meet Up
Matthew Street, Alicia Lopez Operé, and Rachel Geer (French) hosted an Active Learning Meet Up Thursday, April 4. Faculty shared community-building techniques to increase student output in active learning spaces. Matthew Street interviewed students from Accelerated Beginning Spanish about their experience in these spaces. Check out this 8-minute video here.
Fall 24 Maya K'iche' Courses
KICH 1010 Introduction to K'iche' Maya I and KICH 2010 Intermediate Maya K'iche' II are being offered this fall!
K'iche' is one of the most common indigenous languages in Latin America, spoken by one million Maya in the western Highlands of Guatemala, the heartland of Maya culture.
In this class, students learn to speak modern K'iche' and study the language in its cultural and historical contexts. K'iche' is the language of the Popol Wuj, the sacred book of the Maya.
Research grant opportunity for undergraduates!
If you’re an undergraduate in the College of Arts and Sciences and plan to conduct research in the summer of 2024, the College Council, the governing body for undergraduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences, welcomes you to apply for the Minerva Grant. Click here for the application. Please be sure to submit your application by 11:59pm on March 31st.
World Language Student Colloquium
Breaking Binaries
March 26, 2024 3:30pm
Language Commons (NCH 298)
Bending Gender and Canon in the Nineteenth Century - Lincoln Day
Disability and the Social Hierarchy of Ancient Greece - Kate Jensen
Zapotec Muxes - Meghan Powers
Gender Roles and Female Empowerment in Flamenco - Ryan Miller
New Spanish course for Fall 2024!
SPAN 3559 American History From Below (and How to Read It) with Daniel Doncel Martin
Mo 5:00-7:30pm at Church of the Incarnation (1465 Incarnation Dr)
UVA in Mexico City
UVA in Mexico City: Contemporary Culture, Development, and Migration in the Ancient Aztec Capital-DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 15!
There is still time to join this inaugural UVA program in Mexico City this summer.
Course: GSGS 3530, will explore the history and culture of Mexico City and the city’s emergence as one of the world’s great global metropoles.
Billable costs:
In-State $3,730
Out-of-State $4,120
IWL Distinguished Undergraduate Award
This award recognizes excellent undergraduate students who have exhibited extraordinary accomplishments in their studies of any World Language taught at the University of Virginia. One or more awards for an amount up to $1,000 will be given. Applications due March 22nd.
Eligibility:
- Enrollment in at least one 3000 or above level course in any world language offered at UVA.
- Devotion, deep interest and commitment to language learning.
- 3.5 GPA
For more information, email Professor Sato (ts2fn) or Professor Esparza Rodriguez (mre4ab).
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Graduation
May 18, 2024
The Graduation Ceremony for the Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese will follow the Lawn Ceremony on Saturday, May 18 at 1:30 p.m. The ceremony will be in the ... Read»
IWL Distinguished Undergraduate Award Winners 2024
April 10, 2024
Congratulations to Spanish students Luis M. Ruano Campos, Aden Bilchick, and Brenna Meehan and Portuguese student William Woodford who were awarded this year’s Distinguished Undergrad Awards!
Congratulations Elizabeth!
April 12, 2024
Spanish Ph.D. student Elizabeth Mirabal has been announced as the 2024 Tibor Wlassics Dante Fellowship winner.
