The Department of Linguistics will welcome new students in the week of August 15-19, 2022!
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SILMW Students Enjoyed Virtual Cooking Class
Hittite class combines 21st-century and Bronze Age technologyHittite class, taught by Professor Ryan Shosted, offers students with opportunities to engage with an extinct language using both modern technology and ancient methods of pressing cuneiform symbols into clay.
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Better understand your worldLinguistics captures how we perceive the world around us and how we relate to one another.
So many choicesOver 30 courses offered every semester
Illinois provides a professional working and learning environment, where faculty members, staff, and students are eager to assist others. The linguistics departments holds regular seminars, talks, and workshops providing tools and opportunities to be inspired by others’ research and perceive linguistics and research in a linguistically rich environment.
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Department News
- Associate Professor Xun Yan has been named a Conrad Humanities Scholar, beginning in Fall 2022. The Conrad Humanities Scholars Award recognizes outstanding contributions by mid-career faculties in the College of LAS, and provides financial support for continued achievement, research, and...
- Krystal Smalls, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, has won the LEAP (Lincoln Excellence Assistant Professors) Award for Academic Years 2022-24. The LEAP Award is granted to distinguished early-career faculty at the University of Illinois who demonstrate the highest caliber of...
- The Linguistics Department will hold its annual year-end Awards and Graduation Celebration on May 4, 2022 from 4.00 to 6.00pm, in the Lucy Ellis Lounge of the Foreign Languages Building (FLB 1080). The Celebration will honor students in the department who have won prestigious awards, and who have...
In addition to working on updating and improving the curricula of the Arabic program, I am actively pursuing several projects that focus on teacher development. More recently, I am preparing my students to participate in national competition QatarDebate. I am working with a team of students from advanced Arabic language classes for this upcoming debating event. This championship will take place at Harvard University by the end of October.
