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Student Organizations
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Modern Language Club
The Modern Language Club sponsors many cultural and entertaining activities, such as: cultural excursions to Washington, DC, speakers, French film festival, Spanish and German movies, German immersion weekend, and more.
German Club
The German Club is a new organization, recently receiving recognition from GSA. Undergraduates with an interest in German are encouraged to join. The Club takes trips to German restaurants, participates in German events and Longwood events such as Spring Weekend, and holds regular meetings. The president of the Club this year is Katie Uyak, the V-P is Krysty Schmid, and the treasurer is Paige Jennings.
Modern Language National Honor Societies
Modern language majors may be eligible for involvement in one of our national honorary societies:
- Delta Phi Alpha (German studies)
- Pi Delta Phi (French studies)
- Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish studies)
English National Honor Societies
Lamba Iota Tau
The purpose of Lambda Iota Tau is to recognize and promote excellence in the study of literature of all languages. Founded at Michigan State University on December 3, 1953, LIT has approximately 50 active chapters and over 40,000 members. These chapters are encouraged to hold regular meetings, to promote collegial support among the members in their literary studies, and to sponsor events and activities which will bring the study of literature to the campus at large. On a national level, LIT publishes its annual journal Lambda Iota Tau as a showcase of some of the best creative and critical writing by our members. In addition, the national organization awards several publication prizes and scholarships each year.
The organization's colors are purple--for the magnificence of literature--and gold--for the "realms of gold" where, as Keats said, it leads us. The official flower is the pansy--"That's for thought," as Ophelia explained in Hamlet . LIT is a member of the Association of College Honor Societies . It is governed by a Board of Moderators and has named the poet Robert Pinsky as its Honorary President.
Requirements for Membership
Members of LIT are majors or minors in literature, no matter what language that literature may be written in. Undergraduates must be in the upper thirty-five percent of their class in cumulative grade average and have attained at least a full B average in at least twelve semester credit hours or eighteen term hours of literature and all prerequisites thereto. Graduate students must have completed one semester or term with an A- average. All members must present an initiation paper on a literary topic or of a creative nature.
