Our Spanish Major and Minor allow students the flexibility to take a wide variety of courses ranging from Hispanic Linguistics to Hispanic Literary and Cultural Studies to Translation. The Teaching of Spanish Major also forms an integral part of the program. We also offer a Spanish for the Professions minor which focuses on advanced language skills for business, healthcare, and legal settings in addition to translation, as well as a Certificate of Academic Spanish for Heritage Speakers.<br><br>Through the major, students’ language skills—speaking, reading, and writing—are strengthened in order to reach a high intermediate to advanced level of linguistic and cultural competency. Our courses are designed to expose students to the most current and innovative critical, analytical, and theoretical approaches in Hispanic studies today, thereby providing a solid foundation for advanced and postgraduate studies.<br><br>The Spanish major provides students interested in careers such as business, law, criminal justice, industry, social, services, nursing, premed, and other health-related fields, with an edge in their professional training, supporting proficiency in areas such as language skills, analytical ability, and critical thinking. We also have close ties with the Latin American and Latino Studies Program for students interested in interdisciplinary work and the study of Hispanic communities here in the U.S.<br><br>We encourage you to think of the study of Spanish as key to your future professional success and invite you to consider becoming a Spanish major, double major, minor, or to pursue the Certificante of Academic Spanish.