FLAC at FLA is a multidisciplinary program sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Its goal is to integrate the study of Latin American or European topics with the practice of Romance languages. FLAC at FLA offers one-credit enhancement or "applied language" sections in Spanish, Portuguese, or French to accompany selected courses in various disciplines. Over the past several years, such applied language sections have been offered with courses in the departments of anthropology, sociology, business, history, religion, philosophy, art, political science, communications, and music. Students who enroll in one of the content courses with a FLAC section, and who have good foreign language skills, may co-enroll in the one-hour FLAC, where readings and discussion are in the foreign language. Further information on this program is available under FLAC, on the departmental web page: http://web.rll.ufl.edu/flac.html

Because all FLAC sections are taught by RLL's graduate students, the program presents a unique opportunity to gain experience in content-based language teaching, and to work closely in the design of the class with a professor from another discipline. TAs chosen to teach in the FLAC program receive a salary supplement for a two-week summer workshop during which they learn the principles of content-based teaching and prepare their course materials, together with the content professor, for the upcoming year. Graduate students who have entered the job market note that interviewers consider their FLAC teaching experience to be a great asset. Over the past decade, FLAC programs of different types have been implemented at some 30 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Most are at small liberal arts colleges, where interdisciplinary courses are more easily organized; FLAC at FLA is one of very few to be undertaken at a large public university.

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