Spanish
Bachelor of Arts, Accelerated Master's, Minor
About this program
The Bachelor of Arts in Spanish helps you build strong language skills while exploring the cultures, histories and literatures of the Spanish-speaking world. You’ll develop fluency in speaking, reading, and writing, along with an understanding of diverse cultural perspectives. The program prepares you for careers in education, translation, business or community work, and it also supports graduate study. It’s a strong choice if you want to connect across languages and cultures.
Program Curriculum and Requirements
Program Scope
Study of another language and culture can broaden your world and improve your critical thinking skills. Becoming conversant in Spanish also has a great practical benefit. More than 400 million people speak Spanish as their native language, making it the fourth most widely spoken language in the world. It is also the second most widely spoken language in the United States, which is home to more Spanish speakers than any other country except Mexico. Studying Spanish opens doors to those communities and can lead to many exciting career possibilities.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Oral Comprehension: understand the utterances of native speakers and extract main ideas and can sustain a conversation on a general topic, narrate and describe on a variety of topics at paragraph length and respond to spontaneous developments in an exchange.
- Reading Comprehension: understand and summarize main ideas in Spanish language texts intended for general readers, including social correspondence, general purpose essays, short stories and news writing.
- Writing: produce narratives and descriptions, cohesive summaries and routine social correspondence (e.g. business letters, resumes), demonstrating awareness of orthography, syntax and stylistics in the writing process
- Situate cultural objects such as literature and films within their historical context and analyze them in order to understand societal processes and examine them critically.
- Understanding of basic linguistic processes, including phonology, phonetics, morphonology, and syntax of the Spanish language
- Understanding of the historical development of the Spanish language, including sociolinguistic variation.
SFSU Accelerated Bachelor's + Master's
The SF State Scholar Program in Spanish offers those students interested in pursuing graduate study an excellent opportunity to accelerate the process and better position themselves in the workforce. Students with a Master of Arts degree in Spanish have gone on to careers in teaching, administration, non-profits, journalism, and have also be accepted into prestigious doctoral programs around the world.
Minor in Spanish
The Minor in Spanish develops your ability to speak, read and write in Spanish while introducing you to the cultures and histories of the Spanish-speaking world. You’ll strengthen communication skills and gain cultural understanding that supports careers in education, business, community work or international fields. The program complements many majors and gives you tools to connect across languages and cultures in personal and professional settings.
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