Derek Reno '16
The Modern Languages faculty are top-notch professors and are a wealth of information about both the language and the culture. With their help, I’ve been able to drastically increase my fluency in the French language. What’s more, I was given the great opportunity of living in the French House of the Max Kade International Wing of North Village. In the French House, my housemates and I lived with a native French teaching assistant who encouraged us to only speak French on a daily basis within the house. Living in a sociable, francophone atmosphere around the clock for a whole year allowed me to build my French fluency by leaps and bounds.
Environmental science and French double major
Member of Phi Sigma Iota, the International Foreign Language Honor Society Volunteer coordinator for the College’s DeHart Local Foods Dinner Research assistant to the chair of the Department of Environmental Science GIS and Remote Sensing teaching assistant in the ES Department Summer intern with the Meadville Community Wellness Initiative
