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Highlights of the Spanish Program

  • A vast majority of students combine their Spanish majors with a variety of other majors and minors, including business, communication and physics, as well as teaching.

  • Speaking Spanish has set our students apart in the job market. Many of them comment that they have received interviews over other candidates because of their Spanish-speaking skills.

  • With the widespread use of Spanish in the United States, the ability to speak the language is a good complement for any major.

Distinctions of the Spanish Program

  • This department travels with students, whether it be a trip to practice Spanish skills with majors or a service-learning trip where anyone can participate.

  • The department has language assistants, who are native speakers and have earned degrees in their home countries. These assistants organize a variety of cultural activities, including language tables in the dining commons for student to practice speaking conversational Spanish with their peers.

Spanish major Mark Lavengood tells what it's like to study and major in Spanish at Alma.


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Alma College’s partnership with the Pine River Superfund Citizen Task Force, an EPA-sanctioned Community Advisory Group (CAG), was selected as a finalist for Michigan’s 2007 Carter Partnership Award. The Task Force is recognized as one of the most influential and active CAGs nationally and as having the largest membership of any CAG in the United States.

 

Faculty Profile

Dr. Deborah Dougherty

Dr. Deborah Dougherty
Departments: Spanish

Spanish professor Deborah Dougherty has been surrounded with liberal arts education all her life.