Oct 10, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Spanish Minor


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Spanish is the second language of the United States, one of the three most widely spoken languages in the world, and one of the five diplomatic languages of the United Nations.

Please see the UNLV College of Liberal Arts Department of World Languages and Cultures web page at www.unlv.edu/wlc for information about department programs, faculty and facilities.  Degree worksheets are available at www.unlv.edu/degree/minor-spanish.

Learning Outcomes

Communication

  • Students will be able to engage in conversation, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
  • Students will be able to understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics.
  • Students will be able to present information, concepts and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.

Cultures

  • Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the cultures studied.
  • Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products (artifacts) and perspectives of the cultures studied.

Connections

  • Students will be able to reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the foreign language.
  • Students will be able to acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures.

Comparisons

  • Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of the language studied and their own.
  • Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.

Communities

  • Students will be able to use the language both within and beyond the school setting.
  • Students will be able to show evidence of becoming life-long learners by using the language for personal enjoyment and enrichment.

Advising


Please see advising information at the UNLV College of Liberal Arts Wilson Advising Center.

Accreditation


For information regarding accreditation at UNLV, please head over to Academic Program Accreditations.

University Graduation Requirements


To obtain this minor, you must be a degree seeking undergraduate student pursuing an approved UNLV bachelor’s degree. Please see Graduation Policies  for complete information.

Spanish Minor - Total Credits: 18


Minor in Spanish - Total Credits: 18


Eighteen credits in Spanish, distributed as follows:

Depending on original placement, up to nine credits may be taken from this group of courses: 

 , SPAN 227 , SPAN 300  SPAN 302 SPAN 401 SPAN 402 .

Of the remaining nine credits, three credits must be at the SPAN 400+ level, and six must be at the SPAN 303+ level.

A minimum of nine of the eighteen credits MUST be courses taken at UNLV, and numbered SPAN 300 or higher.

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