Undergraduate Program
Advisors
Program advisors for the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures (MLC) have the ability to advise students about majors, minors, transfer credit, and cluster exceptions within MLC. Advisors are also are authorized to sign off on forms to declare majors and minors, and to approve transfer credit toward a major or minor.
If you are looking to receive transfer credit for the first two years of study for a language, you need approval from an advisor of that language. All other transfer courses can be approved by anyone listed below or on the authorized signature list.
Undergraduate advisors are organized by the following areas:
- Chinese
- Comparative literature
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Latin American studies
- Portuguese
- Russian and Russian studies
- Spanish
- General inquires
Chinese
Elizabeth Weber
Lattimore 402
(585) 275-4251
e.e.weber@rochester.edu
Ping Pian
Lattimore 404
(585) 275-4251
ping.pian@rochester.edu
Comparative Literature
Robert Doran
Program Head and Undergraduate Advisor
Lattimore 414
(585) 275-4251
robert.doran@rochester.edu
French
Robert Doran
Program Head and Undergraduate Advisor
Lattimore 414
(585) 275-4251
robert.doran@rochester.edu
German
Susan Gustafson
Lattimore 425
(585) 275-4251
susangustafson@rochester.edu
Italian
Donatella Stocchi-Perucchio
Lattimore 405
(585) 275-4251
donatella.stocchi-perucchio@rochester.edu
Japanese
William H. Bridges IV
Undergraduate Advisor (A-M)
Lattimore 407
(585) 275-4251
wbridges@ur.rochester.edu
Joanne Bernardi
Undergraduate Advisor (N-Z)
Lattimore 409
(585) 275-4251
joanne.bernardi@rochester.edu
Latin American Studies
Beth Jörgensen
Undergraduate Advisor
Lattimore 422
(585) 275-4265
beth.jorgensen@rochester.edu
Portuguese
Teresa Valdez
Douglass 305E
(585) 275-5156,
tvaldez@ur.rochester.edu
Russian and Russian Studies
John Givens
Lattimore 408A
(585) 276-5856
johngivens@rochester.edu
Spanish
Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández
Program Head (clusters, study abroad credit for clusters, Take-Five, placement petitions)
Lattimore 420
(585) 275-4257
raul.rodriguez-hernandez@rochester.edu
Claudia Schaefer
Undergraduate Advisor
Lattimore 418
(585) 275-5569
claudia.schaefer@rochester.edu
Kirt Komochi
Placement
Lattimore 427
(585) 275-4251
kkomocki@ur.rochester.edu
General Inquires
John Givens
Department Chair
Lattimore 408A
(585) 276-5856
johngivens@rochester.edu
Carlotta Gambato
Department Manager
Lattimore 408
(585) 275-4253
c.gambato@rochester.edu