Congratulations to Rhoda Torto

Congratulations to Rhoda Torto. She graduates this August with a MA in French and Francophone Language, Literature and Culture and she has been accepted to start her PhD studies in Francophone literatures at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Fall 2021.

Spring Pedagogy Workshop for Global Studies and International Studies

Recorded on Friday May 7, 2021 via ZOOM Presentation by Jenny Kehl, Associate Professor & Global Water Security Scholar for UWM at the office of the Provost, Global Studies and Freshwater Sciences. Presentation by Douglas Haynes Douglas Haynes, Professor of …

Inter-College Language Table

In Fall Semester 2021, the Japanese Program will continue to participate in the Inter-College Language Table. This is a great chance to speak with Japanese learners across the country. Email for login info.

Congratulations to our students on the Dean’s List

A hearty congratulations to the ten students in the Japanese Program on the 2021 Dean’s List! This year’s Japanese majors and minors on the list are: Elizabeth Xiong, Mitsuki Fendt, Grant Goehrig, Stephanie Korb, Grace Robinson, Owen Szymkowski, Justina Cheng, …

IDEAS Grant

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has been awarded an IDEAS grant through the State Department to diversify study abroad at UWM.

Milwaukee Film Festival

French at UWM is a community partner on three films in this year’s MFF: Call Me Human (Canada / 2020 / 78 min / French, Innu-aimun with English subtitles); Downstream to Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Belgium / 2020 / 90 min / …

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.