elementarie

I'm not going to be applying to grad school any time soon, seeing as I don't graduate from my bachelor's program until 2014, but I figure there's no such thing as too soon when putting together all the things needed for applications. Since I'm a transfer student, assume that by the time I graduate I will have been involved in all listed activities for two years, with the exception of Sigma Tau Delta, which will be three semesters because you have to have taken two English courses in residence at my school to officially join. So, now for the list: Sigma Tau Delta, which is an international English honors society. Teaching Writing Club Creative Writing Club University-wide Curriculum Committee Also, I'm involved in a club for any English major at my school either interested in going to grad school or already in the school's M.A. program. Would any of these ECs help me out if I listed them on my CV? Thanks!

I've been looking into grad school lateley, and what I'm going to need to do to get it, and something that's come up quite frequently is the foreign language proficiency requirement. Since I'm only a first-semester Junior in my undergrad work right now, this isn't the most pressing issue, but I was just wondering how important it is to study a language related to your interests in English. My research interests lie more in the pop culture/literature relations area, and I don't really see how any foreign language could benifit me more than another in this field. For the Fall 2012 semester, I'll be taking my third semester of Japanese, which I'm hoping to minor in if I have enough space for the required classes, but if there's another language that I should take that would better suit my interests in English Lit., then I'd love to know what that language is. So, the real question here is this: in my field of research (how literature effects pop culture and vice versa), does the foreign language (or languages) that I study matter, or just the fact that I've studied a certain number of languages? Thanks for your time!