Spanish

Department Chair: Aparna Nayak

RGRLL Language Coordinator: Shelley Dykstra

Single Subject Coordinator for World Languages: Cynthia Leathers

Department Office: Academic Services, Room 309
Telephone: (562) 985.4317
Website: Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures Department

Faculty: Jeannette Acevedo Rivera, Alicia del Campo, Bonnie Gasior, Daniel Herrera Cepero

Undergraduate Advisor: See Department website

Graduate Advisor: Jeannette Acevedo Rivera

Administrative Analyst/Specialist: Cindy Tovar 

Students desiring information should contact the department office for referral to one of the faculty advisors: Single Subject Credential Coordinator, Graduate Advisor, Undergraduate Advisor.

College: College of Liberal Arts  

Related Departments and Programs:

• Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures  
  • French and Francophone Studies  
  • German  
  • Italian Studies    
  • Russian   
  • Translation Studies  

Courses: SPAN  

Career Possibilities

Customs Inspector • Immigration Officer • Importer/Exporter • Foreign Service Officer • International Marketing Representative • Hospitality Services • Travel Guide • Social Worker • Linguist • Language Consultant Foreign Correspondent • Community Organization Worker • Lawyer • Librarian • NGO employee International Student Advisor • Educator • Peace Corps Worker • Interpreter • Translator • CIA/FBI Agent

*Some of these, and other careers, require additional education or experience. For more information, see the Career Development Center website or drop in to see an advisor, who can guide you if you are considering majoring in Spanish or if you already have a first major, about career options that you may have not even considered! The possibilities are limitless!

Introduction

In the Southern California area and across the country a degree in Spanish is an invaluable asset. Over 572 million people worldwide speak Spanish and 22 million study it! More than 41 million people in the U.S. speak Spanish. The US Census Bureau reports that the nation’s Hispanic population is expected to jump to 119 million by 2060. The Spanish Program offers a variety of courses in Spanish language, literature, culture, linguistics, and translation, as well as many study abroad options in the Spanish-speaking world for undergraduate and graduate students. Our programs include a Certificate in Professional and Conversational Competence for Spanish Heritage Speakers, a Minor in Spanish, the Bachelor of Arts, Spanish B.A. Option II: Interdisciplinary Studies, and the Master of Arts degrees in Spanish. In addition, we also offer the Single Subject Teaching Credential in Spanish. These can be completed separately as well as built upon incrementally throughout a student’s academic career at CSULB.

Single Subject Teaching Credential in Spanish

Completion of the Spanish major meets the subject matter competence requirement for the Single Subject Teaching Credential in Spanish. Prospective students should consult the Single Subject Credential Coordinator for World Languages early to plan their program.

In addition to meeting the subject matter competence requirement for the teaching credential, prospective teachers of Spanish are also required to complete 45 units of professional preparation in the Single Subject Credential Program, including student teaching. Students may begin the professional preparation courses as early as the junior year. With careful planning, it is possible to complete all the credential program courses, except for student teaching, as an undergraduate. Courses may also be completed as a post-baccalaureate student. Refer to the Single Subject Teacher Education section of this catalog or the website for a description of professional preparation requirements, courses, and application procedures.

Programs

Graduate and Professional Degrees

• Spanish, M.A. 

   

Undergraduate Degrees

• Spanish, B.A.  
• Spanish Option II: Interdisciplinary Studies  

Minor

• Spanish Minor  

Certificates

• Professional and Conversational Competence for Spanish Heritage Speakers Certificate  

Courses

General Education Category A must be completed prior to taking any upper-division course except upper-division language courses where students meet formal prerequisites and/or competency equivalent for advanced study.

• SPAN 100 - Fundamentals of Spanish
• SPAN 101A - Fundamentals of Spanish
• SPAN 101B - Fundamentals of Spanish
• SPAN 199 - Study Abroad Spanish Language
• SPAN 200 - Intermediate Spanish
• SPAN 201A - Intermediate Spanish
• SPAN 201B - Intermediate Spanish
• SPAN 250 - Spanish for Bilinguals
• SPAN 300 - Advanced Grammar and Composition
• SPAN 310 - Introduction to Literary Analysis
• SPAN 314 - Oral Communication
• SPAN 315 - Professional Conversation for Spanish Heritage Speakers
• SPAN 320 - Literacy and Orality for Bilingual Teaching
• SPAN 330 - Literary Masterpieces: Spain
• SPAN 335A - Business Spanish
• SPAN 335B - Business Spanish
• SPAN 341 - Literary Masterpieces: Spanish America
• SPAN 350 - Hispanic Short Narrative
• SPAN 351 - Survey of Hispanic Theater
• SPAN 400 - Don Quijote and the Critics
• SPAN 410 - AP Spanish Literature & Culture: Theory Into Practice
• SPAN 420 - History of Spanish Language
• SPAN 423 - Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
• SPAN 425 - Teaching Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States
• SPAN 426 - Spanish Morphology and Syntax
• SPAN 427 - Contrastive Analysis of Spanish and English
• SPAN 428 - Spanish Cinema
• SPAN 429 - Studies in 19th and 20th Century Spanish Poetry
• SPAN 430 - Spanish Civilization
• SPAN 438 - Studies in Golden Age Literature
• SPAN 439 - Modern Spanish Narrative
• SPAN 440 - Civilized Barbarisms: Nature, War and Race in Latin American Fiction
• SPAN 441 - Studies in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spanish American Narrative
• SPAN 442 - Nation Building and Women’s Writing in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America
• SPAN 444 - Nineteenth-Century Spanish America and the National Family Romance
• SPAN 445 - Latin American Civilization
• SPAN 446 - Studies in Spanish Culture
• SPAN 447 - The Invention of Spain: Visions in Conflict
• SPAN 448 - Romanticism and Realism
• SPAN 449 - Dictatorship to Democracy: Film and Literature in Spain (1930-today)
• SPAN 450 - Studies in Colonial Spanish American Literature
• SPAN 455 - Hispanic Cinema of the Americas
• SPAN 460 - Studies Spanish American Culture
• SPAN 461 - Introduction to Translation and Interpretation
• SPAN 462 - Written and Sight Translation I: English/Spanish
• SPAN 463 - Written and Sight Translation II: Spanish/English
• SPAN 464 - Consecutive Interpretation I
• SPAN 465 - Consecutive Interpretation II
• SPAN 466 - Simultaneous Interpretation English/Spanish
• SPAN 467 - Simultaneous Interpretation Spanish/English
• SPAN 490 - Selected Topics in Spanish
• SPAN 492 - Studies in Hispanic Theater
• SPAN 493 - Women and War
• SPAN 494 - Internship in Spanish
• SPAN 499 - Independent Study
• SPAN 500 - Don Quijote and the Critics
• SPAN 510 - AP Spanish Literature & Culture: Theory Into Practice
• SPAN 520 - History of Spanish Language
• SPAN 525 - Teaching Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States
• SPAN 526 - Spanish Morphology and Syntax
• SPAN 527 - Contrastive Analysis of Spanish and English
• SPAN 529 - Studies in 19th and 20th Century Spanish Poetry
• SPAN 538 - Studies in Golden Age Literature
• SPAN 539 - Modern Spanish Narrative
• SPAN 540 - Civilized Barbarisms: Nature, War and Race in Latin American Fiction
• SPAN 541 - Studies in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spanish American Narrative
• SPAN 542 - Nation Building and Women’s Writing in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America
• SPAN 544 - Nineteenth-Century Spanish America and The National Family Romance
• SPAN 546 - Studies in Spanish Culture
• SPAN 547 - The Invention of Spain: Visions in Conflict
• SPAN 548 - Romanticism and Realism
• SPAN 549 - Dictatorship to Democracy: Film and Literature in Spain (1930-today)
• SPAN 550 - Studies in Colonial Spanish American Literature
• SPAN 560 - Studies in Spanish American Culture
• SPAN 590 - Selected Topics in Spanish
• SPAN 592 - Studies in Hispanic Theater
• SPAN 593 - Women and War
• SPAN 599 - Directed Studies
• SPAN 640 - Selected Topics - Seminar in Spanish American Literature
• SPAN 650 - Research Methods and Critical Theory
• SPAN 691 - Seminar in Spanish Literature - The Spanish Civil War and Its Artistic Repercussions