Spanish Major & Minor

Spanish Major

Students wishing to major in Spanish have two options:

Option I: Spanish Language, Literature and Civilization

All majors must complete with grades of C or better 36 hours in Spanish beginning at the 200 level.

Foundation Courses (9 hrs.)

SPAN 200 Advanced Grammar and Composition
SPAN 210 Selected Topics of Spanish Conversation
SPAN 220 Interpretation of Texts

Group I Courses: Culture and Civilization (3 hrs.)
Courses selected from current approved list. Courses include but are not limited to the following offerings:

ART 222 Art of the Renaissance through the Enlightenment
POLSC 225 Latin American Politics
HIST 240 History and Civilization of Latin America
SOC 250 Modern Latin America
SPAN 231 Introduction to Hispanic Culture and Civilization I
SPAN 232 Introduction to Hispanic Culture and Civilization II

Group II Courses: Literature (18 hrs. or 15 hrs. if student takes a semester abroad)
No less than six hours in Peninsular literature and no less than six hours in Latin American literature.

Courses from current literature list:
SPAN 307 Golden Age Poetry (P)
SPAN 312 Literary Responses to Armed Conflicts in the Twentieth Century (LA/P)
SPAN 313 Romanticism and Post Romanticism (LA/P)
SPAN 314 Realism and the Turn of the Century (LA/P)
SPAN 315 Imaginary Caribbean: Literature of Cuba and Puerto Rico (LA)
SPAN 317 The Narrative and Spectacle of the Mexican Revolution (LA)
SPAN 319 Cervantes’ Don Quijote (P)
SPAN 334 Literature and Film (LA/P)
SPAN 391 Special Topics in Hispanic Literature (LA/P)

Group III Courses (3 hrs.)
Three more hours in literature or three more hours in language.
Literature course selected from the literature list; language course selected from the following offerings:

SPAN 205 Language and Culture
SPAN 207 Spanish for Social Service
SPAN 215 Spanish for Business
SPAN 300 Field Work
  Senior Seminar (3 hrs.)

Option II: Spanish For Social and Community Service.

All majors must complete the courses required with grades of C or better. No more than 6 hours of the required courses taught in English.

Required:  
SPAN 200 Advanced Grammar and Composition
SPAN 210 Advanced Conversation
SPAN 300 Field Work

15 hrs. Selected from the following courses: 

Culture and Civilization List (For Group I Courses)
ART 222 Art of the Renaissance through the Enlightenment
POLSC 225 Latin American Politics
HIST 240 History and Civilization of Latin America
SOC 250 Modern Latin America
SPAN 231 Introduction to Hispanic Culture and Civilization I
SPAN 232 Introduction to Hispanic Culture and Civilization II
(Other courses might be taken with advisor’s approval)

Language List (For Group III Courses)
SPAN 205 Language and Culture
SPAN 207 Spanish for Social Service
SPAN 215 Spanish for Business

Literature List (For Group II and Group III Courses)
SPAN 307 Golden Age Poetry (P)
SPAN 312 Literary Responses to Armed Conflicts in the Twentieth Century (LA/P)
SPAN 313 Romanticism and Post Romanticism (LA/P)
SPAN 314 Realism and the Turn of the Century (LA/P)
SPAN 315 Imaginary Caribbean: Literature of Cuba and Puerto Rico (LA)
SPAN 316 Latin American Responses to Colonization (LA)
SPAN 317 The Narrative and Spectacle of the Mexican Revolution (LA)
SPAN 319 Cervantes’ Don Quijote (P)
SPAN 334 Literature and Film (LA/P)
SPAN 391 Special Topics in Hispanic Literature (LA/P)

Other Disciplines (21 hrs., mainly in the Social Sciences)

Courses taken in disciplines related to the career objectives of each student. These courses are determined on individual basis.

Spanish Minor

All Spanish minors must complete with grades of C or above 18 hours in the foreign language beginning at the intermediate (103-104) level.