Spanish (BA)
Degree Type
Degree/Major
Area of Interest
Humanities and Languages
Degree Level
Undergraduate
College
College of Engineering, Letters, and Sciences
Sample Plan
Spanish2024.pdf33.53 KB
Viterbo’s Spanish program provides the language and cultural skills that prepare students for a global market. This program allows students to explore the cultures of Latin American and Spain as well as Latinos in the U.S. with a focus on social Justice. With a 100 percent placement rate, graduates of this program are professionally and culturally competent to grow in a wide range of careers.
Policy
- A target proficiency at the Advanced-Low level (ACTFL guidelines) in listening, speaking, reading, and writing as evidenced through course assessment and a course-embedded capstone project
- A period of residency of at least one month in a country where the target language is spoken is required for Spanish majors
Learning Outcomes
- Communicate effectively in more than one language in order to function in a variety of situations and for multiple purposes
- Interact with cultural competence and understanding
- Connect with other disciplines and acquire information and diverse perspectives in order to use the language to function in academic and career-related situations
- Develop insight into the nature of language and culture in order to interact with cultural competence
- Communicate and interact with cultural competence in order to participate in multilingual communities at home and around the world
- Read and understand a variety of texts
- Translate a variety of texts