Bachelor of Arts in Spanish, Secondary Teacher Licensure

1. Specific Courses Required for this degree

Required Core

  • SPAN 313: Conversation and Composition (3 hours)
  • SPAN 350: Advanced Grammar & Comp (3 hours)
  • SPAN 395: Spanish Phonetics–Lang Hist (3 hours)
  • SPAN 396: Methods Teaching Foreign Lang (3 hours)

Civilization and Culture Courses:

  • SPAN 325: Spanish Civ & Culture (3 hours) OR SPAN 326: Latin American Civ & Culture (3 hours)

Literature Courses:

  • SPAN 340: Topics in Spanish Literature (3 hours) OR SPAN 341: Topics in Latin Am Literature (3 hours)

Language Elective Courses (6 hours):

  • SPAN 310: Southwest Spanish (3 hours)
  • SPAN 315: Spanish for Business (3 hours)
  • SPAN 316: Spanish for Health Professions (3 hours)
  • SPAN 317: Spanish for Translation (3 hours)
  • SPAN 379: Special Topics (1 TO 6 hours)

Literature Elective Courses (6 hours):

  • SPAN 400: Masterpieces of Spanish Lit (3 hours)
  • SPAN 401: Masterpieces of Latin Am Lit (3 hours)
  • SPAN 411: Contemporary Spanish Lit (3 hours)
  • SPAN 412: Contemp Latin American Lit (3 hours)
  • SPAN 413: La Literatura Indigenista (3 hours)
  • SPAN 414: Spanish American Thought (3 hours)
  • SPAN 415: Cervantes/El Quijote (3 hours)
  • SPAN 416: La Novela/Revolucion Mexicana (3 hours)
  • SPAN 419: Golden Age Drama (3 hours)
  • SPAN 423: Modern Hispanic Short Story (3 hours)
  • SPAN 425: Hispanic Poetry (3 hours)
  • SPAN 479: Special Topics (1 TO 6 hours)

Language/Literature Electives (3 additional hours from above)

Successful completion of the Senior Comprehensive Examination (SCE).

Successful completion of the Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) in Spanish at ACTFL level advanced high.

NOTE: Completion of the SCE and OPI are instruments used by Adams State Language Faculty to assess the effectiveness of their program in four areas:

  1. Oral performance in speaking, understanding, description, and oral narration;
  2. Writing (Grammar);
  3. Hispanic culture and literature appreciation;
  4. Teaching methodology.

When to take these courses

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2. All Requirements for this degree

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