French Honor Society: Pi Delta Phi (ΠΔΦ)

Pi Delta Phi (ΠΔΦ) is the National French Honor Society for students at accredited public and private colleges and universities in the United States. Pi Delta Phi was founded in 1906 as a departmental honor society at the University of California, Berkeley, and was admitted to membership in the Association of College Honor Societies in 1967. It currently has over 370 chapters throughout the United States, as well as chapters in Paris and Aix-en-Provence. The Stanford University chapter, Iota, opened in 1934.

Students are nominated by Stanford Language Center lecturers and DLCL faculty members based on the criteria below.

• Completion of at least one course of upper-division (third-year) French language course and at least one French literature course
• 3.0 GPA in French language and literature courses
• 3.0 cumulative GPA and in top 35% of class
• Graduating senior