Spanish Studies Major

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The objective of the Spanish major is to provide oral and written competence in the language and a solid background in the literature and culture of the Spanish-speaking world.

Program Learning Outcomes

Students will:

communicate clearly and effectively in Spanish, both in written and oral discourse.
demonstrate a concrete knowledge of major artistic works and figures of the Spanish-speaking world.
respect difference and diversity, both in the context of their own culture and globally.
develop an intellectual engagement, introspection and reflective sensibility that will contribute to their life-long learning.

Prerequisites

Lower-division courses (SPAN 100 , SPAN 101 , SPAN 102 , SPAN 201 and SPAN 221 ) serve as a prerequisite but do not count toward the units necessary for the major.

Major Requirements (40 Units)

Lower-division (12 Units)

Elective (1 Course)

Note:

To continue with the next level of any language course, or even to enter Upper Division after Fourth Semester, students must receive a final grade of 70% or higher.

Upper-division (28 Units)

Language and Culture Studies (1 Course)

SPAN 301 - Build Bridges: ESL/Span
SPAN 311 - Advanced Oral and Written Expression
SPAN 312 - Spanish Phonetics
SPAN 317 - Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
SPAN 325 - Lang & Cult in Lat Am/Sp

Literary and Cultural Studies (2 Courses)

Electives (2 Courses)

SPAN 375 - Lit of US-Mexico Borderlands
Courses taken in Study Abroad Programs (pre-approval required)

Senior Seminar (1 Course)

SPAN 402 - Service Learning Project
SPAN 410 - Spanish Phonetics and Phonology
SPAN 412 - Special Topics in Linguistics
SPAN 431 - Dante’s Divina Commedia
SPAN 445 - Cultures in Contact and Conflict: Christians, Muslims and Jewish in Modern Spain
SPAN 452 - Don Quixote
SPAN 456 - Private Lives, Public Voices
SPAN 457 - Undoing Reality/Redoing Reality: Latin American Narrative
SPAN 458 - The Latin American City in its Cinema: Urban Spaces and Living Practices
SPAN 459 - Borges, The Readerly Writer
SPAN 470 - Honors Senior Thesis

Special Topics Course (1 Course)

SPAN 490 - Special Topics *

Note:

* Taught by faculty from another departments.