The Spanish Language Proficiency Exam is administered online and is proctored through Honorlock. To sign up for the next available exam, visit: https://lppe.humanities.arizona.edu.

The exam takes approximately 15–20 minutes to complete. If you previously completed the Language Placement Exam through NextSteps, your first attempt is free. Otherwise, the College of Humanities will charge $40.00 to your Bursar's Account for each additional attempt after the first.

This proctored proficiency exam allows you to fulfill graduation requirements for any courses you place past, and it unlocks registration for the course you place into. Please note that no course credits are awarded from this exam.

We recommend meeting with an advisor to better understand how a major or minor would fit into your schedule and what your academic pathway could look like.

You have two options for declaring your major or minor:

1. Meet with an advisor, either in person or via Zoom. For either option, you must make an appointment with an advisor.
2. Complete & Submit the online declaration form; our advisors will process it.
   1. Current students can declare a minor or major by clicking the link below link: https://spanish.arizona.edu/undergraduate/prospective-students/declare-major-or-minor

If you are not a student, you have to apply to the University of Arizona and declare your major through your application.

None of the courses for the Spanish major fulfill General Education requirements. For example, if you are pursuing a Spanish minor, Spanish 210 fulfills the requirements for the Spanish minor and also satisfies a General Education requirement.

Yes. All students in the College of Humanities must declare and complete a minor in order to graduate. We recommend Portuguese, Latin American Studies or Mexican American Studies.

Not necessarily. The answer to this question depends upon the student's situation. The following is a brief guideline:

• Students that major in Spanish in the Language and Linguistics track must take SPAN 340/343.
• Students in the College of Education with a Bilingual Emphasis may take Spanish 441 or Spanish 473 in place of Spanish 350/352.
• Students pursuing a Spanish minor are not required to take SPAN 340/343, provided they complete at least 9 upper-division units in Spanish, including SPAN 323/325, SPAN 330/333, and SPAN 350/352.

• SPAN 350/352 is required to satisfy the literature requirement for the Spanish minor. If additional upper-division electives are needed to complete the minor, students may then take SPAN 340/343.

YES!!! Exceptions will be made only in the following circumstances:

• If you are an international student who was raised and attended school in the Hispanic world.
• If you are a return missionary or student who has studied in the Hispanic world for at least 1 year (in this event, you would still require written permission from Spanish advisors or the Heritage Dept).
• If you took the Advanced Placement (AP) Spanish language and/or Spanish Literature exams and received a qualifying score that is recorded on your UA transcript, you may be eligible for course credit. You can visit the following site to review score requirements, corresponding course credit, and AP credit units: https://catalog.arizona.edu/policy/courses-credit/credit/credit-exam#advanced-placement-ap-program1
• The College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) exam may be taken only by students with no prior college-level Spanish credit. For more information or to schedule an exam, contact the UA Testing Office at (520) 621-7589 or test@email.arizona.edu
• CLEP credit cannot be awarded for courses equivalent to or lower than courses you’ve already completed. Consult your academic advisor to confirm eligibility.
• For additional information, please visit: https://testing.arizona.edu/test/clep 

To learn more about the Portuguese minor, check out our minor and major options page by clicking here: https://spanish.arizona.edu/undergraduate/prospective-students/major-and-minor-options.

 To learn more about the major, check out our Spanish major with an emphasis on Portuguese on this page: https://spanish.arizona.edu/undergraduate/emphases/spanish-and-portuguese.

If you have any additional questions, feel free to reach out to the Portuguese Advisor, Agripino Silveira.

Check out the department's Study Abroad website! You can also reach out to Professor Yadira Berigan. Our department programs are offered in Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina, and Spain. You may find out about other programs by going to the Study Abroad Office (Room 150) at the Global Center (615 N Park Ave) or visiting UA's study abroad website: https://international.arizona.edu/study-abroad

Please not that credits will only transfer through study abroad programs offered by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese.

LOTS!  Bachelor of Arts majors have been demonstrated to advance more quickly than their more specialized degree recipient peers in large corporations due to many skills acquired during college, such as critical thinking and problem-solving skills, as well as the capacity to be flexible and deal with different populations. They are also shown to be very strong in research and presentational skills.

In the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, we host a spring meeting for our majors to discuss career options. Students learn about job opportunities in government, tourism, business, and education.

Students are also encouraged to use the Student Engagement and Career Development Center in the Student Success District: https://career.arizona.edu/ 

In order to transfer your credits from another institution, you must go through the Office of Provost website for transfer credits: https://transfercredit.arizona.edu/ 

If you attended an Arizona institution check out exactly how the credits in Spanish transfer by going to the online CEG (Course Equivalency Guide).

If your Spanish Credits are not transferring correctly (i.e. your transcript says something like 1TR instead of an equivalent course), please reach out to the Spanish advisor Vanessa Valenzuela. Send her the syllabus and/or course description from the class you took and she will check what it would be equivalent to here at the U of A and update your transcript accordingly. 

No! Credits will only transfer through study abroad programs offered by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese.

If you are a Spanish major, you must first see the Graduation Advisor Rachel Hamm (621-3292, rhamm@email.arizona.edu). Her office is EDU 235 and her office hours are M/W/TH 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., and T 11:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

To take the placement exam for heritage speakers of Spanish, please contact Xochilt María Montaño, Assistant Director of the Heritage Program, or Lillian Gorman, Ph.D. Director of the Heritage Language Program. Based on your exam results, you may be placed in one of our Heritage Speaker courses (SPAN 103, 203, 253, 323, 333, or 343), which are the heritage speaker equivalents of the non-native speaker sequence (SPAN 102, 202, 251, 325, 330, 340).

You will need to contact Dr. Agripino Silviera at (520) 621-2248 about taking the placement exam for Portuguese speakers. Depending on the results, you may be placed in one of our Portuguese speaker courses (101 or 102).

Agripino Silviera
Office: Modern Languages 530
(520) 621-2248
agripino@arizona.edu 

Please visit https://list.arizona.edu/sympa/ for directions on how to unsubscribe yourself. Please ONLY unsubscribe if you are no longer a Spanish or Portuguese major or minor, as information you are responsible for knowing and that can affect your degree is sent to the listserv.