Requires a minimum of 27 hours in Spanish courses numbered 280-390. It must include:
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Major Courses | ||
| SPA 280 | Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies * | 3 |
| SPA 282 | Advanced Spanish Language and Grammar * | 3 |
| or SPA 283 | Advanced Spanish Language and Grammar for Heritage Speakers | |
| SPA 320 | Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics | 3 |
| Select one Regions course | 3 | |
| The Making of Spain: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Cultures of Spain | ||
| Paradise in Perspective: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Wider Caribbean | ||
| Mil máscaras/ A Thousand Masks: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Mexico and Central America | ||
| The Andes to Patagonia: Interdisciplinary Approaches to South American Culture | ||
| Literary and Cultural Studies of Spanish America | ||
| Select one Texts & Contexts course | 3 | |
| Anecdotes, Bestsellers, Cuentos. The ABCs of Storytelling in the Spanish-Speaking World | ||
| Bard, Ballad, Bolero. Poetry, and Song in the Spanish-Speaking World | ||
| Page, Stage, and Performance. Theater and Drama of the Spanish-Speaking World | ||
| Lights, Camera, ¡Acción!. Cinema and Culture in the Spanish-Speaking World | ||
| Spanish Pronunciation and Dialect Variation | ||
| Med & Scientific Translation | ||
| Spanish for Business I | ||
| International Business: Spain/Latin America | ||
| Spanish for Business II | ||
| Medical Spanish | ||
| Intermediate Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies | ||
| Select one Literature/Culture seminar | 3 | |
| The Debate about Woman in Late Medieval Spain | ||
| Medieval Spain: A Cultural and Literary Perspective | ||
| The Golden Age of Spain | ||
| The Spain of Don Quijote | ||
| Voices of Modern Spain | ||
| Love, Death, and Poetry | ||
| Contemporary Theater from Spain | ||
| Fashioning Class, Gender, and National Identity in 18th/19th-Century Spain | ||
| Unearthing the Future: Prehistory and Culture in Modern Spain | ||
| Latin American Historical Fiction: Memory, Myth, and Social Justice | ||
| From Colonial to Postcolonial Voices | ||
| Travel Literature | ||
| The 18th- and 19th-century Periodical Press in Spain and Spanish America | ||
| The Transatlantic Civil War | ||
| Transatlantic Transitions: Postdictatorship in Spain and the Southern Cone | ||
| Contemporary Theater in Spain and Spanish America | ||
| Contemporary Women Novelists and their Female Characters | ||
| Great Authors and Directors | ||
| Film Adaptations of Literary Works | ||
| Cinema and Society | ||
| Mexican Cultures between Global South and Global North | ||
| Romantic Nationalism, Avant-garde Nihilism, and the Deconstruction of Utopia | ||
| Transgressing Borders: Identity in Latin-American and U.S. Latino Cultures | ||
| Spanish American Short Story | ||
| Spanish-American Novel | ||
| Spanish-American Theater: From Page to Stage | ||
| Contemporary Theatre | ||
| Fictions of Mexican Revolution | ||
| Masculinity in Mexican Cinema | ||
| Cultural and Social Entrepreneurship: Promotion of Latin American and Latino Societies | ||
| Keepers of Minerals, Forests, and Waters | ||
| Cuban Literature | ||
| Afro Cuban Cultural Expression | ||
| Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies | ||
| Select one Language/Linguistics seminar | 3 | |
| History of the Spanish Language | ||
| Contrastive Spanish/English Grammar and Stylistics | ||
| Acquisition of Spanish | ||
| Language and Society | ||
| Spanish in the United States | ||
| Special Topics in Hispanic Linguistics | ||
| Spanish for the Professions | ||
| Spanish Translation | ||
| Spanish/English Interpreting | ||
| Special Topics in Translation | ||
| Special Topics in Interpreting | ||
| Select six additional hours of elective credit from Spanish classes numbered 280-390 ** | 6 | |
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Students must achieve at least a C grade in SPA 280 - SPA 283. SPA 282 or SPA 283 must be taken on the Reynolda or Salamanca campus.
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No more than 10 hours may be counted from courses numbered SPA 280-309.
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POL 202, HST 216, ART 230, and ART 242 may count as electives towards the SPA major/minor.
Students must achieve a GPA of 2.0 in the major.
The honors designation in Spanish is a recognition of outstanding scholarship in the field, as evidenced by academic achievement, critical thinking, and intellectual initiative. Highly qualified majors selected by the faculty are invited to participate in the honors program, which candidates undertake in addition to the requirements for the major.
The honors program requires completion of:
- SPA 398 (Directed Reading, 1.5h)
- SPA 399 (Directed Research, 3h)
- Directed Reading, normally taken during the fall semester of the student’s final year, includes reading and discussion of a number of texts on the selected topic, and a written exam covering these texts. At the end of fall semester, the student submits an annotated bibliography and an abstract of the honors thesis.
- Directed Research, taken during the student’s final semester, consists of writing the thesis following a schedule established by the director and the student.
At the end of this course, the honors student defends the thesis orally before appropriate faculty who collectively may confer honors.