The department offers course work for students seeking proficiency in a foreign language and for majors in or a related field.

Placement

Students who have not studied Spanish in high school should seek permission to enroll in SPAN 104. For permission to enroll in this course, a student must show his or her high school transcript to the advising specialist in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. 

Students who have had limited study of Spanish (1 to 3 years in high school or 1 semester of Spanish at another institution of higher learning, equivalent to SPAN 104) and are not placed in the intermediate level should enroll in SPAN 111. Only students who complete SPAN 104 at KU are eligible to enroll in SPAN 108.