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Bachelor of Arts Degree in Spanish

The minimum number of semester credit hours required for this degree, including the hours in the Core Curriculum requirements, is 120. Thirty-nine of the total semester credit hours required for the degree must be at the upper-division level.

Prerequisites for most upper-division Spanish courses may include SPN 3063, the appropriate proficiency or placement test score, or consent of instructor.

Students seeking teacher certification should consult the College of Education and Human Development Advising and Certification Center for information.

All candidates seeking this degree must fulfill the Core Curriculum requirements and the degree requirements, which are listed below.

Core Curriculum requirements: Students seeking the Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish must fulfill University Core Curriculum requirements in the same manner as other students. The courses listed in the table below satisfy both degree requirements and Core Curriculum requirements; however, if these courses are taken to satisfy both requirements, then students will need to take additional courses in order to meet the minimum number of semester credit hours required for this degree. For a complete listing of courses that satisfy the Core Curriculum requirements see pages 9-13 of this catalog. Top

Degree Requirements

A. 39 semester credit hours in the major, all of which must be at the upper-division level, as follows:

1. 12 semester credit hours of required language courses (recommended for early completion):

SPN 3033 Oral Communication Skills
or
SPN 4033 Advanced Oral Communication Skills
(with placement score of 2+ or above)

SPN 3043 Advanced Reading
SPN 3063 Grammar and Composition
SPN 3073 Advanced Grammar and Composition

2. 3 semester credit hours selected from the following:

SPN 3013 Spanish Phonetics and Pronunciation
SPN 3113 Linguistic Structures of Spanish

3. 9 semester credit hours selected from the following:

SPN 3413 The Literature of Spain from the Middle Ages to 1700
SPN 3423 The Literature of Spain from 1700 to the present
SPN 3463 Latin American Literature to Modernism
SPN 3473 Latin American Literature since Modernism

4. 6 semester credit hours as follows:

SPN 3613 Spanish Culture and Civilization
SPN 3623 Latin American Culture and Civilization

5. 9 semester credit hours of Spanish electives, 3 of which must be at the 4000 level

B. 12 additional semester credit hours of coursework not taught in Spanish, distributed in the following manner:

1. 3 hours in either Comparative Studies in the Humanities (CSH, except CSH 1203) or Linguistics (LNG).

2. The remaining 9 hours in a single area or a combination, selected from the following in consultation with the undergraduate advisor: literature, culture, linguistics, foreign language (FL: translation, cross-cultural communication, study abroad etc.), another foreign language, history, anthropology, art, or other related areas.

C. 27 semester credit hours of electives Top

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