The major in Spanish provides students with a strong foundation in literature, linguistics, visual culture, and educational practices of Spanish-speaking communities across Europe, Latin America, and the United States. Students advance their Spanish proficiency across listening, reading, speaking, and writing modalities while acquiring critical thinking skills, sociopolitical awareness and intercultural competencies that are valuable to a variety of professional and academic careers. For students interested in interdisciplinary concentrations, the B.A. in Spanish is tailored for the possibility of declaring a double major in Spanish and other disciplines, particularly for students interested in teaching careers in K-12 settings, including dual immersion programs. The plan of study is composed of five mandatory core courses and seven elective classes. Upon completion of the Spanish major, all students will have met the following core learning outcomes:
- Students convey information and formulate opinions in Spanish across oral and written modalities while demonstrating control of grammatical structures, register, and style in Spanish.
- Students analyze and interpret the production of literary and cinematographic works from Spanish-speaking writers and filmmakers while understanding the historical and sociopolitical contexts of these works.
- Students identify and describe linguistic phenomena (e.g. sound system, word order, acquisition) that pertain to the Spanish-speaking world while taking into account speaker, regional, and situational variations.
- Students distinguish and describe cultural practices and diverse social and ethnic perspectives from the Spanish-speaking world (including Iberian, Latin American, and U.S. Latino communities).