Twice a week during the noon hours, students may bring their luncheon trays to tables reserved for language students and faculty. These are wonderful opportunities to “bavarder en francais” informally outside of the classroom!
Speak Tables
Alma College students have the ability to design their own area of academic concentration, with the assistance of a faculty advisor, to meet specific educational or career goals. In recent years, students have graduated with Programs of Emphasis majors in such fields as arts management, archaeology and anthropology, environmental policy and community advocacy, Foreign Service and international law, and music technology and digital media.
Graduate Profile
Elizabeth Priester Steding
Graduation: 1994
Major: German
Elizabeth Priester Steding came to Alma College thinking she would become an elementary school teacher. Placing into third-year German changed her mind.
Now an assistant professor of German at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, she completed her master’s degree in German while teaching high school, through a summer program at University of California, Santa Barbara.