Spanish, B.A.

The Spanish BA consists of 38 upper-division units in the 300-400 level courses indicated below. The number of lower-division units will depend on the amount of Spanish studied previously in high school or college; heritage speakers: please see prerequisite below.

Students are encouraged to study abroad through the CSU International Programs in Santiago (Chile), Querétaro (Mexico) or Granada, Jaén, or Madrid (Spain); or the semester-long programs in Madrid, Alicante, or Salamanca (Spain). Please see the advisor for further advice.

Completion of the Spanish major meets the subject matter competence requirement for the Single Subject Teaching Credential in Spanish. Prospective students should consult the undergraduate Spanish Advisor and the Languages Other Than English (LOTE) Program Advisor early to plan their program. The Department also recommends studying an additional language, in particular to students interested in the teaching credential.

Prerequisites

One year of intermediate Spanish at the university level, or equivalent. Students who have completed sufficient high school Spanish or equivalent may take upper-division courses as soon as proficiency requirements have been met. Heritage speakers of Spanish who have never formally studied the language are recommended to take SPAN 250 (6-unit GE course).

Requirements

Take all of the following with grades of “C” or better:

SPAN 300 - Advanced Grammar and Composition (6 units)
SPAN 310 - Introduction to Literary Analysis (3 units)
SPAN 330 - Literary Masterpieces: Spain (3 units)
SPAN 341 - Literary Masterpieces: Spanish America (3 units)
SPAN 423 - Introduction to Spanish Linguistics (3 units)

Take one of the following with grades of “C” or better:

SPAN 430 - Spanish Civilization (3 units)
SPAN 445 - Latin American Civilization (3 units)

Take 18 upper-division units selected from the following with grades of “C” or better:

SPAN 314 - Oral Communication (3 units)
SPAN 315 - Professional Conversation for Spanish Heritage Speakers (3 units)
SPAN 320 - Literacy and Orality for Bilingual Teaching (3 units)
SPAN 335A - Business Spanish (3 units)
SPAN 335B - Business Spanish (3 units)
SPAN 350 - Hispanic Short Narrative (3 units)
SPAN 351 - Survey of Hispanic Theater (3 units)
SPAN 400 - Don Quijote and the Critics (3 units)
SPAN 410 - AP Spanish Literature & Culture: Theory Into Practice (3 units)
SPAN 425 - Teaching Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States (3 units)
SPAN 426 - Spanish Morphology and Syntax (3 units)
SPAN 427 - Contrastive Analysis of Spanish and English (3 units)
SPAN 428 - Spanish Cinema (3 units)
SPAN 429 - Studies in 19th and 20th Century Spanish Poetry (3 units)
SPAN 430 - Spanish Civilization (3 units)
SPAN 438 - Studies in Golden Age Literature (3 units)
SPAN 439 - Modern Spanish Narrative (3 units)
SPAN 440 - Civilized Barbarisms: Nature, War and Race in Latin American Fiction (3 units)
SPAN 441 - Studies in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spanish American Narrative (3 units)
SPAN 442 - Nation Building and Women’s Writing in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America (3 units)
SPAN 444 - Nineteenth-Century Spanish America and the National Family Romance (3 units)
SPAN 445 - Latin American Civilization (3 units)
SPAN 446 - Studies in Spanish Culture (3 units)
SPAN 447 - The Invention of Spain: Visions in Conflict (3 units)
SPAN 448 - Romanticism and Realism (3 units)
SPAN 449 - Dictatorship to Democracy: Film and Literature in Spain (1930-today) (3 units)
SPAN 450 - Studies in Colonial Spanish American Literature (3 units)
SPAN 455 - Hispanic Cinema of the Americas (3 units)
SPAN 460 - Studies Spanish American Culture (3 units)
SPAN 461 - Introduction to Translation and Interpretation (3 units)
SPAN 462 - Written and Sight Translation I: English/Spanish (3 units)
SPAN 463 - Written and Sight Translation II: Spanish/English (3 units)
SPAN 464 - Consecutive Interpretation I (3 units)
SPAN 465 - Consecutive Interpretation II (3 units)
SPAN 466 - Simultaneous Interpretation English/Spanish (3 units)
SPAN 467 - Simultaneous Interpretation Spanish/English (3 units)
SPAN 490 - Selected Topics in Spanish (3 units)
SPAN 491 - Nobel Poets and Others (3 units)
SPAN 492 - Studies in Hispanic Theater (3 units)
SPAN 493 - Women and War (3 units)
SPAN 494 - Internship in Spanish (1-3 units)
SPAN 499 - Independent Study (1-3 units)
RGR 346 - The European Cinema of Communism, Fascism and Resistance (3 units)
RGR 400 - Crime and Punishment (3 units)
RGR 424 - Second Language Acquisition (3 units)
RGR 425 - Romance Linguistics (3 units)
RGR 450 - 1492 and Beyond (3 units)
RGR 470 - New Technologies in the Learning of Languages Other Than English (3 units)
RGR 490 - Selected Topics (3 units)

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