{"id":4340,"date":"2025-11-05T14:54:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/fren-ital\/?page_id=4340"},"modified":"2025-11-13T13:30:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:30:53","slug":"national-italian-honors-society","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/fren-ital\/national-italian-honors-society\/","title":{"rendered":"National Italian Honors Society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--full-width-image-and-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--full-width-image-and-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      <div class=\"image-container\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/fren-ital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/11\/Untitled-12-2-768x432.png\"\n          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National Italian Honor Society is a society formed to acknowledge superior scholastic performance in the field of Italian language, literature and culture, and is open to membership at institutions of higher learning in the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The society encourages college students to acquire a greater interest in, and a deeper understanding of, Italian culture, art and history.\u00a0 The organization recognizes outstanding undergraduate scholarship in the field of Italian by awarding annually the Gamma Kappa Alpha Award for Scholarship.<\/p>\n<h3 align=\"left\"><em>Requirements<\/em><\/h3>\n<ol start=\"1\" type=\"1\">\n<li><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Declared Italian Major or Minor<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Completion of ITAL 240 or enrollment in ITAL 240 in the semester of the GKA induction ceremony<\/li>\n<li>Grade of B or higher in all Italian Major\/Minor course work<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n      <\/div>\n\n\n  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