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Anna Torres-Cacoullos

Anna Torres-Cacoullos is an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? My research interests are interdisciplinary and span a broad range of topics in literature, film, and philosophy. While I specialize in late 19th/early 20th centuy Spanish literature and culture, particularly the interrelation between modernist literature and early silent film, my work has also considered questions about gender, race, and...

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EURO 418: Language & Minorities in Europe

Survey of regional and immigrant minority language use, policies, and planning across Europe. Focus on political and social issues, such as language regimes, education, loss, and maintenance. Two immigrant languages, Turkish and Arabic/Berber, and four indigenous language families: Balto-Slavic with Estonian, Celtic, Romance with Basque, and Slavic with Hungarian. Taught in English.

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EURO 500: Dialogue on Europe

This graduate level seminar is a roundtable discussion exploring a variety of topics related to Europe, transatlantic relations, the European Union, and the peripheries. Students will have an opportunity to participate in regular conversations about current issues ranging from cultural policies, migration, economic policies, bureaucratic politics, labor, electoral processes, sports, popular culture, and other topics of high salience to Europe and the European Union.

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EURO 502: The EU in a Global Context

This course focuses on European Union history, politics, law, culture, and identity and will introduce students to the role of the EU in international affairs.

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EURO 385: Politics of the European Union

Considers the history of the European Union and its current functions and operations. Focuses on the ongoing process of political and cultural integration.

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EURO 501: EU Institutions and Governance

A graduate-level introduction to the European Union, its history, decision-making processes, legal framework and political and economic effects.

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