A successful Spanish major will:
- Demonstrate advanced Spanish linguistic skills in speaking, writing, reading and listening:
- Demonstrate cultural competence:
- Ability to communicate with a native speaker in a nuanced manner;
- Ability to read and understand a text or cultural product within its Spanish-speaking cultural context
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Ability to function in a Spanish-speaking culture and to appreciate its differences.
- Demonstrate the ability to do close readings and critical interpretations of a variety of cultural products from Spanish America, Spain, and Latino US;
- Demonstrate an awareness of social and historical contexts from the Spanish-speaking world;
- Demonstrate basic knowledge of literary and cultural traditions from Spanish America, Spain, and Latino US;
- Demonstrate the ability to make connections between the Hispanic world and its cultural products and other disciplines.
- Demonstrate critical thinking:
- Demonstrate research competency:
- Demonstrate ability to do independent research using sources produced in Spanish;
- Produce a senior thesis that adheres to proper scholarly format, develops a clear thesis, properly uses secondary sources, and develops a convincing argument;
- Present a coherent oral presentation of the research for the senior thesis in Spanish before a scholarly audience;
- Demonstrate knowledge of major concepts in literary and cultural studies