Some of our graduates have gone onto use their French in various career paths. Some of them include:
Business, including sales, marketing, and management positions for corporations such as Nestle, Kellogg’s and Amway.
Teaching positions at the high school and college levels.
Foreign service careers.
Counselors or directors of programs for international students in a college setting.
Read what one Alma graduate is doing with his study of French.
Alma’s innovative PRISM project—Positive Routes Into Science and Mathematics—gets more students excited about science. It engages students in research opportunities not only in their first, second, third and fourth years of college but also in the summer prior to taking their first college course. PRISM is funded by a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.
Josh Minshall
Graduation: 2013
Major: French
Some people think French is the language of snoots and snobs. Others assume it’s only good for impressing dates. To Holly senior Josh Minshall, the language of love is “100-percent awesome sauce.”
“I’ve been taking French since 10th grade,” he says. “A lot of my friends took Spanish because they thought French would be too hard, but I stuck with it. I feel like I have a real knack for the language, and I speak it every day.”
