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Liberal Arts (LAT) Spanish Language Pathway

2018-2019

Associates of Arts, Liberal Studies Division

Recommneded Course Selection Sequence

Course NumberTitleCredits
SPN101Elementary Spanish 1

3
CMP101Composition 1

3
HIS131World History 1

3
MAT-ELECTIVE
140 Level or higher

3
SPE102Speech

3
SPN102Elementary Spanish 2

3
CMP102Composition 2

3
HIS132World History 2

3
PSY102Introduction to Psychology

3
SCI-ELECTIVE
Science Elective

3
SPN201Intermediate Spanish 1

3
 
FRE101Elementary French 1

3
OR
ASL101Elementary American Sign Language 1

3
 
LS-Elective
Laboratory Science Elective

4
SPE202Intercultural Communication

3
LA-ELECTIVE
Liberal Arts Elective

4
SPN202Intermediate Spanish 2

3
 
FRE102Elementary French 2

3
OR
ASL102Elementary American Sign Language 2

3
 
PSY204Human Growth and Development

3
LA-ELECTIVE
Liberal Arts Elective

4

Total Credit Hours: 60


Program Notes
  • Open admissions
  • Mass Transfer Program
  • Day or evening program

Campus Information

  • Lynn or Danvers Campus

Additional Graduation Requirements

  • Cumulative CLGPA at or above 2.0
  • Submit your intent to graduate form www.northshore.edu/registrar/

Advising Notes

The recommended courses listed are designed upon degree completion for a student to be eligible to transfer to a public state university or UMASS system institution with junior status in the major of Spanish.

Students master Spanish at an intermediate level and a second language at an elementary 2 level.

This program helps students to develop language proficiency, a global perspective and makes emphasis on cross-cultural competence. These skills help students understand how to become a global citizen living in a global society.

For more information contact us at: Language@northshore.edu or call (781)-477-2160

Program Student Learner Outcomes
  • Demonstrate ability to use foreign language skills and/or knowledge of other cultures to extend access to information, experiences, and cultural understanding.
  • Critical Thinking and Information Literacy: demonstrate analytical reasoning and interpret evidence by identifying, locating, evaluating, and synthesizing information as well as effectively use evidence from various print and electronic sources across disciplines to support a claim.
  • Communication: read, write, listen and speak effectively, using multiple modes of communication.
  • Quantitative and Scientific Reasoning: use the scientific reasoning process, quantitative and qualitative reasoning, and data to solve problems.
  • Intercultural Competency: identify their own cultural norms within a framework of other cultural perspectives. Graduates will be able to articulate their individual, social and civic responsibilities as members of a global community.

Occupational Skills Required
  • Translate messages simultaneously or consecutively into specified languages, orally or by using hand signs, maintaining message content, context, and style as much as possible.
  • Listen to speakers' statements to determine meanings and to prepare translations, using electronic listening systems as necessary.
  • Use cultural knowledge, diverse cultural frames of reference, and alternate cultural perspectives to think critically and solve problems.
  • Fluency in one or more non-English languages.
  • Demonstrate ability to communicate and connect with people in other language communities in a range of settings for a variety of purposes, developing skills in each of the four modalities: speaking, listening , reading, and writing.