• The Spanish Studies major and minor programs are more than a foreign language — they provide full immersion in a second language, culture, history, with a social and political context vital to living in increasingly diverse communities within the global climate.
  • The curriculum emphasizes the unique role of Spanish-speaking communities throughout the world, offering challenging coursework, service learning opportunities, and study abroad programs that allow students to understand the complexities of Chicanx, Hispanic, Latin American, and Latinx cultures.
  • Students will:
    • Express information and opinions verbally in consistent, effective, and clear Spanish
    • Write in Spanish using the disciplinary conventions and methodologies of literary and cultural analysis
    • Comprehend oral discourse produced by native speakers of Spanish
    • Analyze the main ideas of various cultural phenomena, such as literature, art, music, film and popular media
    • Identify major artistic and cultural figures of the Spanish-speaking world in the context of their historical, cultural, and/or aesthetic traditions
    • Appreciate the linguistic, ethnic, racial, religious, cultural and social diversity of Latin America, Spain and Latina/o and Hispanic communities within the US