The Department of Modern Languages offers students a Spanish major with two concentration options: Linguistics or Literature. Both options prepare students who intend to teach Spanish in high schools and students who plan to continue their studies in graduate school in the academic fields of Spanish Linguistics, Romance Linguistics, Spanish Literature, and Latin American literature. Additionally, the B.A. in Spanish also provides opportunities for employment to those who want to become:

- academic counselor,

- criminal justice administrator,

- customs inspector,

- importer/exporter,

- international marketing representative,

- international student advisor,

- interpreter or translator,

- language consultant

- lawyer,

- librarian,

- NGO employee, etc.

Program Learning Outcomes

- Students will read and write in Spanish at the beginning, intermediate and advanced levels.

- Students will understand Spanish language literature and linguistics as they relate to Latin America, Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries.

- Students will interpret, analyze and evaluate textual and linguistic productions within their specific historical and sociocultural contexts.

- Students will utilize literary and linguistic research methodologies and skills in using traditional and electronic sources for both oral and written projects.

- Students will utilize and apply literary and linguistic theories in explaining linguistic and literary productions.

- Students of Spanish as a Second Language will achieve basic to intermediate proficiency levels in listening, speaking, reading, and writing