Spanish, BA

• Degree Requirements
• Learning Goals and Objectives
• Honors

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)

SPAN-315

Spanish for the Professions

4

Choose one of the following:

SPAN-290	Advanced Composition and Conversation	4
SPAN-300	Intro to Cultural Texts	4

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

Honors in the Major is a highly selective opportunity to complete a signature original project or thesis with the close personalized mentorship of a departmental faculty member beginning in the junior year.  Students have the opportunity to complete a junior level interdisciplinary course addressing real-world problems. In the senior year, students present research or creative works completed in their discipline at the Honors in the Major Symposium. There is special recognition at Commencement and on the Suffolk transcript. 

About the Spanish Major

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