Spanish Language (Certificate)
The certificate in Spanish signifies that a student has successfully completed beginning and intermediate language courses in Spanish. As a result, students have acquired proficiency in the four main areas of the Spanish language: speaking, comprehension, reading, and writing. The certificate also indicates that a student has developed a broad awareness of the cultures, values, and customs of the Spanish-speaking world.
Program Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the three required courses, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate mastery of advanced grammatical rules of the Spanish language, including the present tense of regular and irregular verbs, near-future tense, simple past tense, perfect, imperfect, pluperfect, future, and conditional tenses, the subjunctive, commands, conditional and perfect tenses.
- Communicate complex thoughts about topics such as personal life, preferences, future plans and past events, professions, job interviews, banking and postal needs, food topics, and environment.
- Develop complex paragraphs leading to essays of at least 250 words, including the above goals.
- Utilize complex vocabulary, analyze level-appropriate texts.
- Demonstrate a broad awareness of the cultures, values, customs, and diversity of the Spanish-speaking world and appreciate the rich cultural and linguistic diversity of the Spanish speaking countries, including major conventions of social interaction; better understanding their own culture by contrast.
Requirements
Required Courses
Total Credit Hours: 12