Membership Requirements
PHI SIGMA IOTA is an honor society whose members are elected from among outstanding advanced (juniors and seniors) and graduate students of foreign languages and literatures including Classics, Comparative Literature, Philology, Bilingual Education, and Applied Linguistics. The primary objectives of this honorary are the recognition of remarkable ability and attainments in languages and literatures, and the promotion of a sentiment of amity between our own nation and the nations using these languages.
PHI SIGMA IOTA honors undergraduate students who have chosen to pursue a curriculum with emphasis in foreign languages (a major or a minor), who have at least a B average in their college course of study, as well as in all courses in foreign languages, who rank in the top 35% of their class, and who have completed at least one course in a foreign language at the third-year level or beyond.