The Spanish General Emphasis offers students innovative courses in Spanish that helps them improve their skills in intercultural communication. Our professors are well-known scholars who specialize in a variety of fields, including: visual art, music, cinema, culture, literature, urban spaces, borders/migration, translation, interpretation, linguistics. The department strives to offer the students an academic experience that complements their professional goals.
Degree Emphasis Course Requirements
Part A
Spanish Core
All Spanish majors must complete the 5 courses in the Spanish Core component.
Part B
Generalist Emphasis
LINGUISTICS
Choose 1 course from the following list (3 units)
- Span 340 Spanish Phonetics
- Span 343 Spanish Phonetics for the Heritage Speaker
- Span 360 Spanish Structure
Introduction to Translation & Interpretation
One Course (3 units)
- SPAN 341 Translation and Interpretation
Electives
Choose 5 courses from the following list (15 units)
- SPAN 371 Spanish for Business and Economics
- SPAN 381 Medical/Buisness Translation
- SPAN 382 Legal/Buisness Translation
- SPAN 400 Major Works in Spanish Literature
- SPAN 401 Major Works in Latin American Literature
- SPAN 403 Major Works in Mexican and Mexican American Literature
- SPAN 430 Issues in Spanish Culture
- SPAN 431 Issues in Spanish American Culture
- SPAN 433 Issues in Mexican and Mexican American Culture
- SPAN 435 Cervantes’ Don Quixote
- SPAN 436 Readings in Spanish Prose from the Middle Ages through the Twentieth Century
- SPAN 437 Spanish Theater
- SPAN 441 Children's Literature in Spanish
- SPAN 448 Mexican and Mexican-American Film
- SPAN 449x Topics in Selected Literature and Cultural Studies
- SPAN 452 Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
- SPAN 453 Theory of Spanish Morphosyntax
- SPAN 455 History of Spanish Language
- SPAN 457 Applied Linguistics
- SPAN 458 Spanish Socio Linguistics
- SPAN 480 Service Learning
- SPAN 493 Internship
- SPAN 498 Capstone
- SPAN 498H Honors Thesis
- SPAN 399/499 Independent Study