Term Effective:
Summer 2025
Description:
A student completing the Spanish major will have a solid background in reading, writing, speaking and comprehending Spanish and will have developed both an understanding and appreciation of Hispanic cultures. The student will be prepared for upper division coursework in Spanish at a four-year university or, should he/she pursue other fields of study, will have achieved a level of competence in Spanish that will both enhance job performance and increase marketability in professions where knowledge of Spanish is either necessary or advantageous.
Upon successful completion of this program, the student will be able to:
- Converse in Spanish with native speakers of Spanish on a full range of topics, including but not limited to, personal and family lives, school or work related topics, current events, historical, political and cultural perspectives with effective use of grammar and comprehensible pronunciation;
- Demonstrate an understanding of authentic texts in Spanish on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to, newspaper and magazine articles, short stories, letters, poems, essays by identifying and explaining the key points and themes both orally and in writing;
- Write cogent essays or term papers in grammatically correct Spanish formulating and developing ideas on a full range of topics, including but not limited to, history, culture, literary analysis and current events;
- Demonstrate cultural awareness and appreciation of the Spanish & Spanish American experience by examining, identifying and analyzing the values, attitudes and traditions that characterize such experience; and
- Succeed in upper division Spanish coursework at a four-year university and/or function in a professional setting where the use of Spanish is an asset.
Program Requirements:
The requirements for the Spanish (AA) program are:
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Complete 18 units from
- Spanish Major Requirements
- Spanish Major Restricted Electives
- Information Learning Resources Requirement
Spanish Major Requirements - complete 8.00 units |
Complete any combination totaling at least 4.00 units from the following:
| Course | Description | Units |
SPAN 3 | Intermediate Spanish-Part One | 4.00 |
SPAN 41 | Intermediate Spanish for Spanish Speakers | 4.00 |
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SPAN 4 | Intermediate Spanish-Part 2 | 4.00 |
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Spanish Major Restricted Electives - complete 9.00 units |
Complete any combination totaling at least 9.00 units from the following:
| Course | Description | Units |
ANTH 30 | Anthropology of Globalization | 3.00 |
ANTH 31 | Mesoamerican Origins of Latino Culture | 3.00 |
ENGL 25 | Introduction to Language Study | 3.00 |
ENGL 33 | Chicano/Chicana Arts and Literature | 3.00 |
HIST 8.1 | History of Latin America from Pre-Columbian to 1830 | 3.00 |
HIST 8.2 | History of Latin America from 1830 to Present | 3.00 |
HIST 21 | Race, Ethnicity and Gender in American Culture | 3.00 |
HIST 26 | History of Chicanx and Latinx from 1848 to present | 3.00 |
HIST 33 | History of Mexico | 3.00 |
HUM 23 | Culture and Values in Latin America and The Caribbean | 3.00 |
SPAN 1 | Elementary Spanish-Part 1 | 4.00 |
SPAN 2 | Elementary Spanish-Part 2 | 4.00 |
SPAN 40 | Introductory Spanish for Spanish Speakers | 4.00 |
SPAN 50A | Conversation for Beginners-Part 1 | 3.00 |
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Information Learning Resources Requirement - complete 1.00 units |
LIR 10 | Introduction to Information Literacy | 1.00 |
Term Effective:
Summer 2025
The requirements for this program of study are effective beginning the semester shown above. If you began working on this program before the effective semester, you may not be affected by the changes. Consult with the program contact person or the department chair to determine your eligibility to complete the program under previous requirements.
Associate Degree Requirements:
The major is one of several requirements students need to fulfill in order to be awarded the Associate Degree, the highest level of academic achievement recognized by Santa Rosa Junior College. Please note that all of the following requirements must be met in order for the degree to be conferred:
For all students admitted for the Fall 2009 term or any term thereafter,
a grade of "C" or better, or "P" if the course is taken on a pass/no pass basis,
is required for each course applied toward the major.
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