2025-26 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Jul 07, 2025  
2025-26 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

Spanish Major


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Program Learning Goals.  Upon completion of the program students will

1:  Be able to articulate an understanding of God as an omnilingual being, the Creator and Lord of languages.

2: Be able to maintain spontaneous spoken or written conversations and discussion across various time frames on familiar, as well as unfamiliar, concrete topics, using series of connected sentences and probing questions, as well as deliver detailed and organized presentations in paragraphs and using various time frames through spoken or written language [equivalent to an Advanced Proficiency Benchmark]

3: Be capable of understanding the main message and supporting details on a wide variety of familiar and general interest topics across various time frames, and to explain some diversity among products and practices and how it relates to perspectives. [equivalent to an Advanced Proficiency Benchmark]

4: Have the ability to demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of the language studied and their own.

Total credits required: 35


 

Notes:


*1 credit course, repeated a minimum of 3 different terms. Additional credits may be applied towards Spanish electives.

**Students may substitute 3 credits from either French or German languages.

***Students must study Spanish abroad in a Spanish-speaking country through an approved program (the list of approved programs to complete the semester abroad requirement for the Spanish major is available from the chair of the Modern Foreign Languages department, Registrar’s Office or Compass Center for Career and Calling).

For students seeking the secondary teaching endorsement in Spanish:

  1. LAN308, Methods of Teaching Secondary Foreign Language is required
  2. TESL307, Methods in TESL is recommended

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