LFS | Alumnae & Alumni

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What do LFS Majors do after graduation?  

Many areas of business, industry, and government service consider a language background a career must. Recent graduates of the department have been employed in a variety of fields including translation, education, governmental and non-governmental organizations. Here are just a few examples of what recent LFS graduates are doing:  

 

Education

  • Teaching Assistant for the French Ministry of Education and the Cultural Services in the Aix-Marseille Academy in France  
  • Instructor, Georgetown University Center of Language Education and Development  
  • Teaching abroad in Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Peru, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Turkey, Ukraine, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Moldova, Switzerland, and Thailand  

 

Government

  • Department of State  
  • National Security Agency  

 

Nongovernmental Organizations

  • Organization of American States  
  • International Organization for Migration  
  • International Development Bank  

 

Translation

  • Translator at CETRA, Inc., translation agency and corporate member of the American Translators Association  

 

Graduate Study

  • Middlebury College 
  • University of Bath and Humboldt Universitat in Berlin  
  • George Washington University  
  • University of Miami: School of Law  
  • University of Texas-Austin  
  • Universidad de Carlos III in Madrid  

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