Honor Society Inductions:
Each spring, during Rider’s International Week celebrations, the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures inducts excellent students in the Department into the following National and International Honor Societies:

• SIGMA DELTA PI:  National Spanish Honor Society
• PI DELTA PHI:  National French Honor Society
• DELTA PHI ALPHA:  National German Honor Society
• PHI BETA DELTA:  Honor Society for International Scholars

Awards for student writing: 
Students are selected to receive awards for outstanding student writing in foreign languages.  These students present their papers during a ceremony held during International Week.  The following are some of the recent award winning papers and essays from outstanding students:

• Diane Bukowczyk:  “Phèdre:  monstre ou victime”
• Estefania Juncal:  “Le Personnage de Francis Sancher: La Crise d’identité dans Traversée de la Mangrove de Maryse Condé”
• Dianna Altmiller:  “Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Erlkönig”
• Kate Henninger:  “El Burlador de Selvilla:  una comedia religiosa”
• Jacqueline Nodes:  “La identidad y la soledad en el cine de Pedro Almodóvar”

Honors Program in Foreign Languages and Literatures:
Students who have a 3.25 cumulative grade point average and a 3.5 average in the major may be invited by the department to become a candidate for the Honors Program in Foreign Languages.  In the fall semester of the senior year, students work independently, and with close supervision by a faculty member in the department on a Senior Honors Thesis in a subject of interest to the student.  The student will register for an Independent Research and Study course for three credit hours in both the fall and spring.  The student presents the thesis to the faculty on or before April 15 and will be awarded Honors by the department upon successful completion of the Senior Honors Thesis.

The following are some of the student honors theses:

• Dianna Altmiller (2004-05):  “Representation of Female Roles in the Grimm’s Fairy Tales”
• Caitriona Duggan (2002-03):  “Angels of Perdition:  The Heroine in Spanish Romantic Theater”
• Adam Storm (2001-02):  “Novgorod the Great:  A City of Dual Character”