Spanish Language, Literature and Culture, BA
Introduction
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The Spanish program studies the language, linguistics, literature, culture and civilization of Spain, Spanish America and the Spanish-speaking areas of the United States.
These degree requirements are subject to periodic revision by the academic department, and the College reserves the right to make exceptions and substitutions as judged necessary in individual cases. Therefore, the College strongly urges students to consult regularly with their major advisor and CLAS advisor to confirm the best plans of study before finalizing them.
Program Delivery
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This is an on-campus program.
Declaring This Major
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To be admitted to major status in Spanish, students must have an overall GPA of C+ (2.3).
General Requirements
To earn a degree, students must satisfy all requirements in each of the areas below, in addition to their individual major requirements.
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Program Requirements
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Students must complete a minimum of 36 credit hours with a minimum of 30 SPAN credit hours.
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Students must complete a minimum of 36 upper division (3000-level and above) credit hours with at least 12 SPAN credit hours at the 4000 level or higher.
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Students must earn a minimum grade of C- (1.7) in all major courses taken at CU Denver and must achieve a minimum cumulative major GPA of 2.5. All graded attempts in required and elective courses are calculated in the major GPA. Students cannot complete major or ancillary course requirements as pass/fail.
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Students must complete a minimum of 18 SPAN credit hours with CU Denver faculty.
Program Restrictions, Allowances and Recommendations
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Spanish majors are advised to take MATH 1010 Mathematics for the Liberal Arts or MATH 2830 Introductory Statistics for their CU Denver Core Curriculum Mathematics requirement.
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Courses taken at other institutions while a student is enrolled at CU Denver may be applied to the major only with departmental approval before enrollment in those courses.
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Before enrolling in their final semester in the language, Spanish majors must be evaluated by the faculty in oral and written skills. Students must see their Spanish advisor for specific information.
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Up to 6 credit hours of the 36 upper division level credit hours may be taken in related fields.
Required Courses
| Code | Title | Hours |
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| Take the following courses | 6 | |
| SPAN 3060 | Hispanic Phonetics: Theory and Practice | 3 |
| SPAN 3101 | Introduction to the Study of Literature | 3 |
Language Skills and Theory
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Take at least two of the following | 6 | |
| SPAN 3010 | Spanish Composition I | 3 |
| SPAN 3020 | Spanish Composition II | 3 |
| SPAN 3025 | Writing for Latinos | 3 |
| SPAN 3026 | Writing for Latinos II | 3 |
| SPAN 3030 | Spanish Oral Proficiency | 3 |
| SPAN 3050 | Advanced Spanish Grammar | 3 |
| SPAN 3060 | Hispanic Phonetics: Theory and Practice | 3 |
| SPAN 4010 | History of the Spanish Language | 3 |
| SPAN 4020 | Spanish Sociolinguistics | 3 |
| SPAN 4030 | The Learning and Teaching of Heritage Speakers | 3 |
| SPAN 4040 | Spanish Classroom Methods and Practice | 3 |
| SPAN 4060 | Dialects of the Spanish-Speaking World | 3 |
| SPAN 4070 | Spanish Applied Linguistics & Second Language Acquisition | 3 |
| SPAN 4076 | Spanish in Colorado | 3 |
| SPAN 4080 | Spanish in the United States | 3 |
| SPAN 4099 | Special Topics in Linguistics | 3 |
Culture and Civilizations of Spain or Spanish America
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Take two of the following | 6 | |
| SPAN 3212 | Spanish American Culture and Civilization | 3 |
| SPAN 3213 | Contemporary Latin American Culture and Institutions | 3 |
| SPAN 3221 | Culture and Civilization of Spain I | 3 |
| SPAN 3222 | Culture and Civilization of Spain II | 3 |
| SPAN 3223 | Contemporary Spanish Culture and Institutions | 3 |
| SPAN 3225 | Special Topics In Hispanic Culture | 3 |
| SPAN 3230 | Ibero-American Cultures through Film | 3 |
| SPAN 3240 | Food Metaphors: Ibero-American Cuisine and Culture | 3 |
| SPAN 3270 | Bilingual Communities: Spanish as a Language of Contact | 3 |
Peninsular Spanish Literature, Culture and Film
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Take at least one of the following: | 3 | |
| SPAN 3199 | Topics in Spanish Literature | 3 |
| SPAN 4110 | Contemporary Spanish Literature | 3 |
| SPAN 4130 | Medieval Spanish Literature | 3 |
| SPAN 4150 | Masterpieces of Spanish Literature | 3 |
| SPAN 4170 | Golden Age Drama | 3 |
| SPAN 4180 | Modernism | 3 |
| SPAN 4190 | Nineteenth-Century Spanish Novel | 3 |
| SPAN 4300 | Generation of 1898 | 3 |
| SPAN 4320 | Interculturalism and Transnationalism in Modern Spain | 3 |
| SPAN 4330 | Modern Culture of Spain through Film and Narrative | 3 |
| SPAN 4340 | Race, Class, and Gender in Spanish Golden Age Literature | 3 |
| SPAN 4350 | Don Quijote | 3 |
| SPAN 4360 | Women and the Spanish Civil War | 3 |
| SPAN 4380 | Romanticism in Spain | 3 |
| SPAN 4399 | Special Topics: Spanish Peninsular Literature | 3 |
Latin American Literature, Culture and Film
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Take at least one of the following: | 3 | |
| SPAN 3400 | Survey of Spanish Literature I | 3 |
| SPAN 3410 | Survey of Spanish Literature II | 3 |
| SPAN 3510 | Survey of Spanish American Literature II | 3 |
| SPAN 3550 | Spanish American Short Story | 3 |
| SPAN 4401 | Survey of Spanish-American Literature I: Pre-1898 | 3 |
| SPAN 4411 | Contemporary Spanish-American Novel | 3 |
| SPAN 4450 | Masterpieces of Spanish-American Literature | 3 |
| SPAN 4501 | Borges: An Introduction to His Labyrinths | 3 |
| SPAN 4512 | Contemporary Argentine Short Stories | 3 |
| SPAN 4521 | Mexican Literature I: pre-Columbian and Colonial | 3 |
| SPAN 4522 | Mexican Literature II: 19th to 21st Centuries | 3 |
| SPAN 4525 | Orientalisms In The Hispanic Tradition | 3 |
| SPAN 4541 | Unexpected Lives: Ibero-American Queer Cinema | 3 |
| SPAN 4550 | Garcia Marquez: Words of Magic | 3 |
| SPAN 4590 | Ibero-American Thought | 3 |
| SPAN 4599 | Special Topics: Latin American Literature | 3 |
Electives
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Take 12 credits of upper division (3000-level and above) Spanish electives, not already taken above. | 12 | |
Up to two of these electives may be taken outside the SPAN subject code from the courses listed below. | ||
| ANTH 3121 | Language, Culture, and Communication | 3 |
| ANTH 4320 | Archaeology of Mexico and Central America | 3 |
| CLDE 4800 | Language Development and Acquisition | 1-5 |
| CHIN 3010 | Advanced Intermediate Chinese | 3 |
| CHIN 3130 | Special Topics in Chinese | 3 |
| CHIN 3200 | Contemporary Chinese Society and Culture | 3 |
| CHIN 3300 | Special Topics on Chinese Film | 3 |
| CLDE 5030 | Language Development of Multilingual Learners: Advanced 1 | 3 |
| CLDE 5820 | Teaching Multiilingual Learners, Advanced | 3 |
| ENGL 3160 | Language Theory | 3 |
| ENGL 3798 | International Perspectives in Literature and Film | 3 |
| ENGL 4601 | Principles and Practices of Second Language Acquisition | 3 |
| ENGL 4460 | Contemporary World Literature | 3 |
| ETST 3108 | Chicano/a and Latino/a History | 3 |
| ETST 3350 | Colonial Latin America | 3 |
| ETST 3408 | Social Psychology of Latinos/as | 3 |
| ETST 3838 | History of the Mexican American in Colorado | 3 |
| ETST 4616 | Selected Topics: Chicanos/as and Latinos/as | 3 |
| ETST 4768 | Chicano/Chicana Narrative and Social History | 3 |
| FREN 3010 | French Phonetics and Pronunciation | 3 |
| FREN 3020 | Conversation through Film | 3 |
| FREN 3050 | Advanced Grammar and Composition | 3 |
| FREN 3060 | Advanced French Language Skills | 3 |
| FREN 3112 | Survey of French Literature I | 3 |
| FREN 3120 | French Cultural Identities: Myths and Realities | 3 |
| FREN 3122 | Survey of French Literature II | 3 |
| FREN 3130 | Current Topics of the French-Speaking World | 3 |
| FREN 3140 | Contemporary Francophone Cultures | 3 |
| FREN 3200 | The Francophone World in the Post-Colonial Era | 3 |
| FREN 3970 | Special Topics | 3 |
| FREN 4010 | Advanced Composition: Stylistics | 3 |
| FREN 4050 | Advanced French for Business | 3 |
| FREN 4082 | Introduction to Translation | 3 |
| FREN 4200 | French Civilization Through the Nineteenth Century | 3 |
| FREN 4210 | French Civilization - Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries | 3 |
| FREN 4310 | Seventeenth Century Literature | 3 |
| FREN 4360 | Eighteenth Century Novel, Theater and Poetry | 3 |
| FREN 4430 | Nineteenth Century French Novel | 3 |
| FREN 4480 | Twentieth Century French Novel | 3 |
| FREN 4490 | Twentieth Century French Theater | 3 |
| FREN 4510 | French Women Writers | 3 |
| FREN 4520 | Voices of Haiti and the Caribbean | 3 |
| FREN 4600 | History of the French Language | 3 |
| GEOG 3130 | Central America and the Caribbean | 3 |
| GEOG 3140 | Geography of South America | 3 |
| GRMN 3200 | Current German Society and Culture | 3 |
| HIST 3345 | Immigration and Ethnicity in American History | 3 |
| HIST 3350 | Colonial Latin America | 3 |
| HIST 3365 | Aztlan in the United States: Chicano History from 1821 | 3 |
| HIST 3460 | Modern Latin American History | 3 |
| HIST 4411 | Modern Mexico | 3 |
| HIST 4412 | Mexico and the United States: People and Politics on the Border | 3 |
| HIST 4415 | Social Revolutions in Latin America | 3 |
| HIST 4417 | Commodities and Globalization | 3 |
| LING 3100 | Language in Society | 3 |
| MLNG 4690 | Methods of Teaching Modern Languages | 3 |
| MLNG 4691 | Methods of Teaching Modern Languages II | 3 |
| PSCI 4235 | Politics and Markets in Latin America | 3 |
| PSCI 4545 | Immigration Politics | 3 |
| PSCI 4554 | Chicano and Latino Politics | 3 |
| SPAN 3010 | Spanish Composition I | 3 |
| SPAN 3020 | Spanish Composition II | 3 |
| SPAN 3025 | Writing for Latinos | 3 |
| SPAN 3026 | Writing for Latinos II | 3 |
| SPAN 3030 | Spanish Oral Proficiency | 3 |
| SPAN 3050 | Advanced Spanish Grammar | 3 |
| SPAN 3199 | Topics in Spanish Literature | 3 |
| SPAN 3212 | Spanish American Culture and Civilization | 3 |
| SPAN 3213 | Contemporary Latin American Culture and Institutions | 3 |
| SPAN 3221 | Culture and Civilization of Spain I | 3 |
| SPAN 3222 | Culture and Civilization of Spain II | 3 |
| SPAN 3223 | Contemporary Spanish Culture and Institutions | 3 |
| SPAN 3225 | Special Topics In Hispanic Culture | 3 |
| SPAN 3230 | Ibero-American Cultures through Film | 3 |
| SPAN 3240 | Food Metaphors: Ibero-American Cuisine and Culture | 3 |
| SPAN 3270 | Bilingual Communities: Spanish as a Language of Contact | 3 |
| SPAN 3400 | Survey of Spanish Literature I | 3 |
| SPAN 3410 | Survey of Spanish Literature II | 3 |
| SPAN 3510 | Survey of Spanish American Literature II | 3 |
| SPAN 3550 | Spanish American Short Story | 3 |
| SPAN 3700 | Spanish for International Business I | 3 |
| SPAN 3710 | Spanish for International Business II | 3 |
| SPAN 3730 | Special Topics in Spanish for the Professions | 3 |
| SPAN 3740 | Spanish for the Healthcare Professions I | 3 |
| SPAN 3750 | Spanish for the Healthcare Professions II | 3 |
| SPAN 3782 | Introduction to Translation I | 3 |
| SPAN 3792 | Introduction to Translation II | 3 |
| SPAN 3840 | Independent Study: SPAN | 1-3 |
| SPAN 3939 | Internship | 1-3 |
| SPAN 3995 | Global Study Topics | 1-15 |
| SPAN 4010 | History of the Spanish Language | 3 |
| SPAN 4020 | Spanish Sociolinguistics | 3 |
| SPAN 4030 | The Learning and Teaching of Heritage Speakers | 3 |
| SPAN 4040 | Spanish Classroom Methods and Practice | 3 |
| SPAN 4060 | Dialects of the Spanish-Speaking World | 3 |
| SPAN 4070 | Spanish Applied Linguistics & Second Language Acquisition | 3 |
| SPAN 4076 | Spanish in Colorado | 3 |
| SPAN 4080 | Spanish in the United States | 3 |
| SPAN 4099 | Special Topics in Linguistics | 3 |
| SPAN 4110 | Contemporary Spanish Literature | 3 |
| SPAN 4130 | Medieval Spanish Literature | 3 |
| SPAN 4150 | Masterpieces of Spanish Literature | 3 |
| SPAN 4170 | Golden Age Drama | 3 |
| SPAN 4180 | Modernism | 3 |
| SPAN 4190 | Nineteenth-Century Spanish Novel | 3 |
| SPAN 4300 | Generation of 1898 | 3 |
| SPAN 4320 | Interculturalism and Transnationalism in Modern Spain | 3 |
| SPAN 4330 | Modern Culture of Spain through Film and Narrative | 3 |
| SPAN 4340 | Race, Class, and Gender in Spanish Golden Age Literature | 3 |
| SPAN 4350 | Don Quijote | 3 |
| SPAN 4360 | Women and the Spanish Civil War | 3 |
| SPAN 4380 | Romanticism in Spain | 3 |
| SPAN 4399 | Special Topics: Spanish Peninsular Literature | 3 |
| SPAN 4401 | Survey of Spanish-American Literature I: Pre-1898 | 3 |
| SPAN 4411 | Contemporary Spanish-American Novel | 3 |
| SPAN 4450 | Masterpieces of Spanish-American Literature | 3 |
| SPAN 4501 | Borges: An Introduction to His Labyrinths | 3 |
| SPAN 4512 | Contemporary Argentine Short Stories | 3 |
| SPAN 4521 | Mexican Literature I: pre-Columbian and Colonial | 3 |
| SPAN 4522 | Mexican Literature II: 19th to 21st Centuries | 3 |
| SPAN 4525 | Orientalisms In The Hispanic Tradition | 3 |
| SPAN 4541 | Unexpected Lives: Ibero-American Queer Cinema | 3 |
| SPAN 4550 | Garcia Marquez: Words of Magic | 3 |
| SPAN 4590 | Ibero-American Thought | 3 |
| SPAN 4599 | Special Topics: Latin American Literature | 3 |
| SPAN 4600 | Seminar in Spanish Creative Writing: Poetry and Short Fiction | 3 |
| SPAN 4840 | Independent Study: SPAN | 1-3 |
| SPAN 4880 | Directed Research | 1-6 |
| SPAN 4970 | Special Topics in Literature | 3 |
| 1 | Any relevant cross-listed level course will also count. |
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