Requirements for the Major in Spanish (34 units)

Prerequisites:

Spanish majors will have completed the equivalent of first year collage level Spanish in high school, at a community college, or by completing SPAN 101 and SPAN 102 at CSUCI, prior to beginning the Spanish major.

Lower Division Requirements (8 units):

Students must take eight (8) units of second-year Spanish courses:

SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish I (4), and
SPAN 202 Intermediate Spanish II (4),

-or-

SPAN 211 Spanish for Heritage Speakers I (4), and
SPAN 212 Spanish for Heritage Speakers II (4).

Upper Division Requirements (26 units):

Students with high intermediate language proficiency may begin the major by taking upper-division courses. Students proficiency will be determined according to the proficiency guidelines developed by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, and will be assessed by the Spanish faculty.  For these students, a total of 34 units of upper-division courses are required to complete the Spanish major.

All Spanish majors must complete at least 11 units of 400-level courses with a SPAN prefix.

Core (11 units):

All students must take on course from each of the following categories.

• Language: SPAN 301 Advanced Spanish: Part One (3) or SPAN 302 Advanced Spanish: Part Two (3)
• Literature: SPAN 310 Indtroduction to Prose, Poetry and Drama (3)
• Culture: SPAN 410 Civilizations and Cultures of Spain (3) or SPAN 411 Civilizations and Cultures of Latin America (3)
• Capstone: SPAN 499 Capstone in Spanish (2)

Electives (15 units):

• *SPAN 301 Advanced Spanish: Part One (3) or SPAN 302 Advanced Spanish: Part Two (3)
• SPAN 304 Spanish for Careers and Professions (3)
• SPAN 311 Estudios literarios bilingües (3) (cross-listed as ENGL 311 Bilingual Literacy Studies)
• SPAN 315 Contrastive Features of Spanish and English (3)
• SPAN 320 Introduction to Spanish Translation (3)
• *SPAN 410 Civilizations and Cultures of Spain (3) or SPAN 411 Civilizations and Cultures of Latin America (3)
• SPAN 415 Spanish Language Variation and Diversity (3)
• SPAN 420 Specialized Spanish Traslation (3)
• SPAN 460 Masterpieces of Spanish Literature (3)
• SPAN 490 Special Topics in Spanish

*Students may choose as electives courses found in the Core, privided the 11-units core is completed.

One of the following courses may also be chosen as an elective for the Spanish major:

• ART 333/HIST 333 History of Southern California Chicano/a Art(3)
• ENGL 334/HIST 334 Narratives of Southern California
• ENGL 453 Hispanic?Hispanic American Literature (3)
• HIST 402 Southern California Chicano/a History and Culture (3)
• HIST 420 History of Mexico (3)
• HIST 421 Revolutionary Mexico, 1876-1930 (3)