Credits Required
Total credits in the minor: 16
Credits at CSUMB: 16
Prerequisites
SPAN 202SPAN 202: Intermediate Spanish II, or SPAN 212SPAN 212: Span For Span Speakers I, or SPAN 301SPAN 301: Comp/Oral Practice, or equivalent; and approval of the School of World Languages and Cultures.
Outcomes, Courses and Assessment
You must achieve both of the Learning Outcomes designated below by successfully completing courses or alternative assessment options as described in the section that follows.
LO 1 Language Proficiency ~ students demonstrate an intermediate-high proficiency level in the four major skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) according to American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) guidelines.
- Complete at least one of the following:
SPAN 301SPAN 301: Comp/Oral Practice
SPAN 302SPAN 302: Hist/Phonetic Struct Span Lang
SPAN 303SPAN 303: Adv Spanish Grammar - SPAN 305SPAN 305: Spanish for The Professions
- SPAN 313SPAN 313: Intro to Spanish Linguistics
- SPAN 315SPAN 315: Intro Translation Span/Eng
LO 2 Cultural Knowledge ~ students provide a comparative description and basic analysis of the peoples, history, and culture of the Spanish-speaking world (including the Hispanic Southwest) ~ engage in the learning of cultural customs (e.g. quinceañera, compadrazgo, Día de los muertos, Carnaval), practices (e.g. religious, ofrendas, fiestas, curanderismo, Cuaresma), products (e.g. literature, art, music), and perspectives (e.g. cosmovisión, worldviews, cultural values, national & cultural identity, etc.), and other skills necessary for crosscultural communication.
Courses
- You must complete SPAN 306SPAN 306: Cultur/Civ Span Ltn Amer or SPAN 316SPAN 316: Span Culture & Civ
- You must complete at least one of the following: SPAN 304SPAN 304: Intro To Hispanic Literat; SPAN 307SPAN 307: History&Politics Of Mex; SPAN 308SPAN 308: Hist/Cultr Aztlan:SW US; SPAN 309SPAN 309: Hist & Polit Of Latn Amer; SPAN 310SPAN 310: Hispanic Child Lit; SPAN 321SPAN 321: Masterpieces of Hispanic Lit; SPAN 322SPAN 322: Masterpieces Latinamer Lit; SPAN 325SPAN 325: Hispanic Cinema; SPAN 330SPAN 330: Hispanic Testimonials; SPAN 365SPAN 365: The Chicano Novel; SPAN 370SPAN 370: The Chicano Community; SPAN 395SPAN 395: Special Topics; SPAN 425SPAN 425: La Literatura Mexicana; SPAN 426SPAN 426: Narativa Hispanoamericana; SPAN 427SPAN 427: Latin Amer Women Writers; SPAN 428SPAN 428: La Literatura Afrolatina
- In addition to these learning experiences, you must complete one additional course to meet the 16-credit requirement. This learning experience can be either a language or culture course from the those listed above, or you may take one related course from another CSUMB academic program HCOM 328HCOM 328: Latina Life Stories; HCOM 329HCOM 329: Auto/Biografias; HCOM 344HCOM 344: Chicana/Latina Experiences; HCOM 345HCOM 345: Chicano Life & Culture; HCOM 455HCOM 455: Paradigms Of Chicano Comm; SBS 325SBS 325: Art of the Aztec Empire; SBS 348SBS 348: Maya Civilization. All coursework taken for this minor must be upper-division.