Degree Requirements - 126 credits
Students can earn a Bachelor of Arts degree with this major
Spanish Major Requirements: 11 courses, 41 credits
Core Requirements (3 courses, 9 credits)
| CAS-201 | College to Career: Explore Your Options and Find Your Path | 1 |
| CAS-H201 | Honors College to Career: Explore Your Options and Find Your Path | 1 |
| SPAN-201 | Intermediate Spanish I | 4 |
| SPAN-202 | Intermediate Spanish II | 4 |
Students in the Honors Program have the option of completing the Honors version of a course.
Advanced Courses (4 courses, 16 credits)
Choose one of the following:
Choose two of the following:
| SPAN-301 | Spanish Culture and Civilization | 4 |
| SPAN-302 | Indigenous and Colonial Latin America | 4 |
| SPAN-303 | Hispanic Culture: Modern and Contemporary Latin America | 4 |
| SPAN-305 | Living in Translation | 4 |
| SPAN-390 | Introduction to Latin American and Caribbean Literature | 4 |
Electives (4 courses, 16 credits)
| - | Choose one additional 4-credit Spanish course above SPAN-300 | 4 |
| - | Choose one additional 4-credit Spanish course above SPAN-300 | 4 |
| - | Choose one additional 4-credit Spanish course above SPAN-300 | 4 |
| - | Choose one additional 4-credit Spanish course above SPAN-300 | 4 |
Note: Advanced course options not used to fulfill the Advanced Courses requirement may be completed as electives.
AP Credit: Incoming students who receive a score of "4" or "5" on the AP Spanish examination have fulfilled the SPAN-201, SPAN-202 core requirement for the major.
Residency Requirement Policy: In the College of Arts and Sciences, a two-course (8 credit) residency requirement must be satisfied for completion of a minor and a four-course (16 credit) residency requirement must be satisfied for the completion of a major.
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Spanish Major Learning Goals and Objectives
Learning goals and objectives reflect the educational outcomes achieved by students through the completion of this program. These transferable skills prepare Suffolk students for success in the workplace, in graduate school, and in their local and global communities.
| Learning Goals |
Learning Objectives |
| Students will... |
Students will be able to... |
| Achieve competency in oral and aural communication |
- Speak the language using well-organized and cohesive speech patterns with minimal dependence on the use of summary or mere quotations
- Pronounce the language accurately and with near-native fluency
- Appropriately use social and/or cultural references |
| Achieve competency in written communication |
- Use and control complex structures
- Have command of a rich vocabulary
- Write with minimal to no interference from other languages |
| Become familiar with the diversity of world cultures |
- Engage with the historical, socio-political context of the cultures associated with the language
- Conduct analysis with an awareness of different points of view
- Recognize different regional accents, dialects, and speech patterns |
| Learn to think critically |
- Develop a working thesis with strong supporting evidence
- Understand different literary genres and tropes, cultural phenomena, and methods of textual analysis
- Demonstrate effective research skills with appropriate documentation |
| Understand contemporary Spanish professional practices in applied settings |
- Analyze a professional situation and determine the best options and outcomes allowed by Hispanic societies
- Articulate basic knowledge of the Hispanic business and banking, health and environmental sciences, legal and law enforcement, or journalism and media systems to determine proper ethical guidelines and professional conventions
- Integrate into realistic professional settings the geographic/regional studies, vocabulary, and cultural contexts presented and practiced throughout each course |
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Honors in the Major
To become a candidate for honors in the major, a student must:
- Have an overall GPA of 3.3 or higher
- Have a major GPA of 3.6 or higher
- Receive an invitation from the major.
- All students, Honors Community Scholars and non-Honors Community Scholars may apply in the spring of their sophomore year to the Honors in the Major program.
- Students who fulfill the GPA requirement above declare intent to the honors coordinator in the spring of Sophomore year.
- Students must attend an honors thesis orientation session and complete an honors contract and a declaration of topic/advisor form for the thesis, which must be signed by the faculty member who has agreed to supervise the project.
To complete requirements for honors in the major, a candidate must:
- Graduate with a major GPA of 3.6 or higher
- Graduate with an overall GPA of 3.3 or higher
- Complete CAS H3222, the Honors Real World Problems Interdisciplinary Course in the junior year
- Complete a senior thesis in SPAN-H555 that is approved by the department
- Make a formal oral presentation in Spanish
- Present work at HLGC department event in April (designated by advisor in concentration)
- Present work from the senior honors experience at the Honors Symposium
About the Spanish Major
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