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Undergraduate Catalog 2025-2026
Spanish : Applied Professional Spanish, BA
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The Applied Spanish Language track provides students with more specialized and career-ready Spanish language skills. Spanish language and topics are tailored for professional use in business, health, digital communication, environmental studies, education, and other. Acquiring more specialized language skills will allow students to be more competitive on the job market, especially in a region and state with a large Spanish-speaking population.
The basic root for the Applied Spanish track is similar to that of Spanish Liberal Arts with the same Gen ed and required core Spanish courses. But in addition, students in Applied Spanish will complete required Applied Spanish courses (36 hrs) along with Cognate electives (18 hrs) that connect to students’ particular area of interest (health, business, communication/media, education, or the sciences). Completion of the program is 120 hrs. Students are expected to acquire an Intermediate + to Advanced level of competency (ACTFL Proficiency levels) by completion. Research and a professional project/presentation in the target language in a selected professional field must be completed successfully as a capstone in Span 3990.
Applied Spanish Language Track Learning Outcomes
- Communicate effectively in Spanish in various contexts and diverse professional fields (health, business, education, or other) at the Intermediate + to Advanced levels (ACTFL proficiency levels);
- Demonstrate comprehension of complex written Spanish in diverse genres (news articles, reports, literature, academic texts);
- Produce grammatically accurate and culturally appropriate documents in Spanish in various formats (emails, social media, essays, reports, presentations, etc.);
- Analyze the social, political, economic, and cultural contexts of Spanish-speaking regions and local communities in the U.S.
- Translate and interpret Spanish texts for professional use in various specialized fields;
- Adapt communication strategies to different cultural and professional contexts.
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General Requirements
Admission to the department is contingent upon good academic standing and acceptance by the department. The department will not accept D transfer credit in the major. All Applied Spanish majors will be assessed periodically during their course of study in the areas of oral proficiency, reading, and writing. By graduation students are expected to have acquired a functional use of the language in an array of professional and technical contexts. A professional presentation in the target language in an area of their choosing (health, business, technology, translation, environment, international affairs, or other) must be successfully completed as a capstone project in the final semester. For transfer students, courses older than seven years will not be accepted. Oral proficiency must be assessed at the Intermediate level at a minimum when entering the program. Course Requirements Summary
Completion of 120 semester hours of work including the University General Education Requirements, the College of Arts and Sciences General Education requirements (3 hrs. foreign language requirement embedded in the major Spanish courses and 3 hours general education course carrying the diversity designation); in addition, 30 hours in core Spanish requirements, 36 hours in applied Spanish courses; 18 hours in cognate electives (courses that complement the degree or create a more intensified area of expertise in a field related to the major). These can be taken from foreign languages, business, English/journalism, Communications/media, political sciences, criminal justice, geography, psychology, health sciences, education, etc. selected with the Spanish advisor’s approval. General Education Shared Core (36 credit hours)
Core Requirements (12 credit hrs) See list … - English composition (6 hrs)
- Oral communication (3 hrs)
- Mathematics (3 hrs)
General Requirements (24 credit hrs) - Humanities/Fine Arts (9 hrs); at least 3 hrs Humanities and 3 hrs Fine Arts
- Social Sciences (9 hrs); in at least two different disciplines
- Natural Sciences (6 hrs); 3 hrs Physical Science and 3 hrs Life Sciences, one of which must be a lab course
College of Arts and Sciences General Education Requirements (3 credit hrs)
- General Education
- One course in a World Language (3 hrs)
- One general education or major course carrying the diversity designation (embedded)
Required Core Spanish Courses (30 credit hours)
Applied Spanish Courses (36 hours)
Cognate Electives (18 hours)
18 hours in cognate electives (courses that complement the degree or create a more intensified area of expertise in a field related to the major). These can be taken from foreign languages, business, English/journalism, Communications/media, political sciences, criminal justice, geography, psychology, health sciences, education, etc. selected with the Spanish advisor’s approval. 4-Year Plan
| Fall Year 1 SPAN 2010 - Intermediate Span I ENG 1230 / ENG 1270 - Composition I MATH 1040 - Mathematics for Data Science Social Science Elective Oral Communications Course______________________ Total | Credit Hours 3 3 3 3 3 15 | Spring Year 1 ENG 1240 /ENG 1280 - Composition II SPAN 2020 -Intermediate Span II BIOL 1070 or BIOL 1080 - Biol Sci Survey I or II AF L 1010 - African Cultural Influence Fine Arts Elective____________________________________ Total | Credit Hours 3 3 3 3 ____3 15 | | Fall Year 2 SPAN 2060 or SPAN 2070 - Conversational Span I or II SPAN 3010 - Advanced Span I Social Science Elective Physical Science Elective Fine Arts/Humanities Elective________________________________________ Total | Credit Hours 3 3 3 3 3 15 | Spring Year 2 SPAN 3020 - Advanced Span II SPAN 3130 or SPAN 3140 -Spain/Latin American Culture SPAN 3150 or SPAN 3160 -Span Composition I or II Social Science Elective Cognate Elective____________________________ Total | Credit Hours 3 3 3 3 3 15 | | Fall Year 3 SPAN 2220 -Span for Careers SPAN 3100 -Intro to Translation SPAN 3170 -Applied Linguistics SPAN 3220 or 3230 -Survey of Span Lit I or II Cognate Elective_________________________________ Total | Credit Hours 3 3 3 3 3 15 | Spring Year 3 SPAN 3300 -Lang/Cult Hispnc US SPAN 3200 -Span for Community and Social Service I SPAN 3205 -Applied Span for Digital Communication SPAN 3400 or SPAN 3430 -Applied Span for Educ or Span for Sustainability and Environmental Studies SPAN 3500 or SPAN 3510 -Survey of Latin American Lit I or II_____ Total | Credit Hours 3 3 3 3 3 15 | | Fall Year 4 SPAN 3201 -Span for Community and Social Service II SPAN 3410 -Latino Workers and Immigration in the US SPAN 3420 -Span Oral Communication for the Professions Cognate Elective Cognate Elective_________________________________ Total | Credit Hours 3 3 3 3 3 15 | Spring Year 4 SPAN 2610 -Field Work in Span SPAN 3990 -Independent Study (Individual Research Interest) SPAN 4270 -Hispanic Media Cognate Elective Cognate Elective___________________________________ Total | Credit Hours 3 3 3 3 3 15 | |
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