Undergraduate Program
Requirements for Degree

The Department of Romance Languages provides opportunities for studying the language, literature, and culture of France, Italy, Portugal, Brazil, Spain and Spanish America. Students acquire competence in the language together with a knowledge and appreciation of the civilization, culture and literature of peoples who speak that language. Studying French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish has become increasingly important because of the economic and political significance of these languages abroad and in our multicultural society in the United States. Language study also offers important support to other majors at UNC-Chapel Hill, especially history, political science, international studies, European studies, communications, and business.

The degree offered is Bachelor of Arts in Romance Languages,with specializations in French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The department offers minors in the four languages.

The major in the Romance Languages requires eight courses numbered between 300 and 699. The minor consists of a minimum of five courses selected from among the major courses numbered between 300 and 699.


BA Honors
The departmental Honors Program is open to any qualified majors in French, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish who have an overall grade average of 3.2 or higher and a 3.5 or higher in their major courses, and who have the commitment and dedication to undertake independent work.

The Bachelor of Arts with Honors or with Highest Honors indicates that the student is academically superior and has carried out independent research and writing of high quality. For those planning to pursue a higher degree in French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, or a related field, it provides early experience on how to prepare a thesis and an oral defense, an integral part of graduate studies in these languages and related fields. The student pursuing a degree with honors must take the 396 and 691H course sequence in the major language (for Italian and Portuguese, the first course in the sequence is 390). The student, in consultation with the director of honors for the language, will formulate a topic and select an appropriate faculty member to supervise the thesis. In the 691H course the thesis will be completed and the student examined by the supervisor and two additional faculty members to be agreed upon by the student and supervisor. The director of honors, in consultation with the examiners, will recommend that the student who has defended the thesis graduate with honors, highest honors, or merely with course credit.

Those interested in the Honors Program should contact the director of honors for their major language.

Minors
The Department offers minors in the four languages - French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.

Undergraduate Awards

• Undergraduate Scholarships, Medals & Honors Societies

Research and Academic Enhancement Opportunities

• Peer Tutoring, Language Tables
• APPLES Service-Learning Program
• Summer School Abroad Scholarships
• Office of Undergraduate Research
• Frances L. Phillips Travel Scholarship
• Burch Fellows Program
• Honors Thesis Research Grants
• Wilson Foundation Undergraduate Summer Research Abroad