With the close guidance of faculty, you will have valuable experiences to prepare you for your professional life as well as for graduate school in disciplines related to language, culture, and literature.
Current French students are involved in an ongoing volunteer translation project, assisting a Pittsburgh-based researcher by translating archival documents from France during the Holocaust.
Recently, Spanish students in our Hispanics in the U.S. course participated in a service-learning project where they provided English tutoring to Spanish-speaking adults in the Pittsburgh area.
Furthermore, as student assistants, modern language majors can actively participate in faculty research on literature, language pedagogy, international business, culture, public policy, and education. They explore topics and questions related to languages and culture, compile bibliographical references, and copy-edit manuscripts, essays, and articles.
Students in advanced coursework also write research papers in their respective areas of study. Our students regularly present their work at the Lycoming College Undergraduate Research Conference.
"Working as a student assistant for the past few years has proven to be an invaluable experience for refining and strengthening my Spanish reading, writing, and comprehension skills. The various academic research projects and publications I have assisted on exposed me to a whole other world of advanced Spanish literary, political, and social studies. I will always be grateful for the many ways in which my work as a student assistant advanced my language skills beyond anything I could have learned in a classroom." - Zechariah Voell, Class of 2017
"Working as a student assistant for the past few years has proven to be an invaluable experience for refining and strengthening my Spanish reading, writing, and comprehension skills. The various academic research projects and publications I have assisted on exposed me to a whole other world of advanced Spanish literary, political, and social studies. I will always be grateful for the many ways in which my work as a student assistant advanced my language skills beyond anything I could have learned in a classroom."
- Zechariah Voell, Class of 2017