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Spanish Major (BA)

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Spanish Major - Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Please see the UNLV College of Liberal Arts, World Languages and Cultures web page at liberalarts.unlv.edu/Foreign_Languages for information about department programs, faculty and facilities.

Please see advising information at the UNLV Wilson Advising Center at www.liberalarts.unlv.edu/WAC/.

 Accreditation

Institution - Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities www.nwccu.org.

Learning Outcomes 

  1. Demonstrate the ability to master advanced grammar items and lexicon in Spanish.
  2. Need to prove a correct command of Spanish writing skills, with attention to stylistic detail in three modes: argumentative, narrative and descriptive
  3. Read and write analytically on cultural topics in Spanish.

University Graduation Requirements

Spanish Degree Requirements - Total: 120 Credits

 

General Education Requirements - Subtotal: 35-40 Credits

 

First-Year Seminar - Credits: 3

 

English Composition - Credits: 6

 

Second-Year Seminar - Credits: 3

 

Constitutions - Credits: 3-6

 

Mathematics - Credits: 3

 

Distribution Requirement - Credits: 18-19

Please see Distribution Requirements  for more information.

  • Humanities and Fine Arts:
    • Automatically satisfied by Major requirements
  • Social Science - 9 credits
    • One course each from three different fields
  • Life and Physical Sciences and Analytical Thinking: 9-10 credits

Multicultural and International

(see note 1 below)

Multicultural, one 3 credit course required
International, one 3 credit course required

These courses may overlap with general education and major requirements.  A single course may not meet the multicultural and international requirements simultaneously. For the list of approved multicultural and international courses, go to: http://facultysenate.unlv.edu/students

Major Degree Requirements - BA in Spanish - Subtotal: 48 Credits

Additional Degree Requirements

Humanities - Credits: 6
Fine Arts - Credits: 6

General Spanish Major Requirements - Credits: 36

      (see note 2 below)

Electives - Credits: 26-27

 

Spanish-for-the-Professions Major Requirements - Credits: 36

(see note 2 below)

Electives - Credits: 32-37

 

Total Credits: 120

 

Note:

  1. For both the Spanish major and Spanish for the Professions major, 30 of the 36 required major credits must be upper division (300-level or 400-level) and 21 of the 36 required major credits must be taken at UNLV.
  2. Every Spanish major student must complete at least one 3-credit course in each of the following areas: Linguistics, Culture, and Spanish for the Professions, and must complete 6 credits in one of those areas.
  3.   is a prerequisite for all upper-division Spanish-for-the-Professions and General Track courses in Spanish.

 

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