Located between the Pacific Ocean and downtown Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount University is a comprehensive university offering 60 major programs, 55 minor undergraduate degrees and programs. The Graduate Division offers 39 master’s degree programs and one education doctorate, one juris doctorate and 10 credential programs. 
 
Founded in 1911, LMU is ranked third in “Best Regional Universities (West)” by U.S. News and World Report. LMU is the largest Jesuit Catholic university for undergraduates on the West Coast, with more than 6,000 undergraduate students and more than 3,000 graduate and law students. The state-of-the-art The William H. Hannon Library rates among the 20 best in the country according to The Princeton Review’s guide to “The Best 378 Colleges,” 2014. Bloomberg Businessweek ranks LMU sixth in the nation and third in the West in its 2013 Part-Time MBA rankings.

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Professor Laura Huffman received her PhD in French and Francophone Studies from UCLA and did her undergraduate work in French at UC Santa Cruz, the Université de Pau and the Sorbonne (Paris III). Her doctoral dissertation locates autobiographical realism in the work of Marguerite Duras and Annie Ernaux. She has taught at UCLA, Occidental College, Pomona College, and USC. Her teaching interests include the language, literature, culture, and food of France and the Francophone world. She sees foreign language acquisition as an essential step toward intercultural understanding.

Laura Huffman

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