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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 received a $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation in August 2009 for research that could eventually lead to the development of more effective drugs to treat and prevent certain kinds of influenza, including human infections of swine and avian flu. "This project provides an opportunity for students to get involved in important laboratory research," says faculty member Jeff Turk, principal investigator.

 

Graduate Profile

Elizabeth Priester Steding

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.