Beyond the Classroom

Many foreign language majors at the Mount study or work abroad. They also participate in honor societies and honors projects as well as organizing cultural and service activities through other campus clubs.

Study Abroad & Internships

• Four-week summer program in San Jose, Costa Rica
• Four-week Mount summer program in Tours, France
• Four-week program in Seville, Spain
• Fall break Mount service trip to Peru
• May Mount service trip to Mexico
• Mount-sponsored semester programs including Florence, Italy
• Semesters in France, Spain, Germany, Austria and other countries through affiliated programs
• Internships with the French Ministry of Education, the U.S. State Department, the Goethe Institut in Germany, the Generación Diez Summer Program in nearby Gettysburg, and more

Honor Societies

• Alpha Mu Gamma, national foreign languages honor society
• Pi Delta Phi, national French honor society
• Sigma Delta Pi, national Spanish honor society

Clubs

• French Club
• German Club
• Italian Club
• Spanish Club

Recent Honors Projects

• “Do Spanish Speakers Really ‘Drink Hair’?: Poetic Translation”
• “The Bilingual Brain: Relationship with Neurocognitive Skills”
• “The Quest for Integration: An Analysis of Germany and the European Union”
•  “Argentina’s Economic Crisis”