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Nov 24, 2024
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2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalog ARCHIVED CATALOG: CONTENT MAY NOT BE CURRENT. USE THE DROP DOWN ABOVE TO ACCESS THE CURRENT CATALOG.
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
- Demonstrate the ability to master advanced grammar items and lexicon in Spanish.
- Need to prove a correct command of Spanish writing skills, with attention to stylistic detail in three modes: argumentative, narrative and descriptive
- Read and write analytically on cultural topics in Spanish.
University Graduation Requirements
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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
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
- Two courses from life and physical sciences category; at least one must have a lab.
- Analytical Thinking - 3 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
Note:
- 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.
- 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.
- is a prerequisite for all upper-division Spanish-for-the-Professions and General Track courses in Spanish.
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