Students who pursue a minor in Spanish need to complete 18 credits in Spanish, at the 200-level or higher.
One of the following:
SPA 300 Advanced Spanish: Oral Communication| This is an active and immersive course focused on the intensive use and analysis of spoken Spanish, including phonetics and phonology, designed to help students work on pronunciation. Classroom activities promote oral skills such as summarizing, telling, narrating, explaining, arguing a point, discussion, and presentations. Students who have been placed into SPA 311 may not take this course. Fulfills requirement: Language and Culture. This course may be repeated for credit as topic changes. Prerequisite: SPA 202 or placement into 300-level or
higher according to the placement test. 3 credits. |
| This course is an advanced course designed to help students develop communication, writing, and reading skills in Spanish, as well as an awareness and appreciation of Hispanic culture(s). It takes an interactive communicative approach and stresses cultural competency in language learning and successful communication. Fulfills requirement: Language and Culture. Prerequisite: SPA 202 or placement into 300-level or higher
according to the placement test. 3 credits. |
| This is a special course for Hispanic, Latinos or students that have been exposed to Spanish consistently at home while growing up, have listened to it and want to develop the formal aspects like grammar, more extensive vocabulary and cultural information about their own places of origin. This class will include readings, movies and studies of geographical areas and maps in order to examine historical and social events represented in the students' countries of origin and will require work outside class in the Latino community. Fulfills requirement: Language and Culture. Prerequisite: SPA 202 or placement into 300-level or higher
according to the placement test; permission of the
instructor or chair. 3 credits. |
Either of the following:
SPA 201 Language and Culture in the
Spanish-Speaking World - Intermediate
Level I| This is an active and immersive language and culture course, taught almost entirely in Spanish in which students will develop skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Spanish and cultural awareness of the cultures associated with the Spanish. Fulfills requirement: Language and Culture. Prerequisite: SPA 102 or placement test. 3 credits. |
| The course is designed to move students from the basic Spanish learned in prior study to level-appropriate, medically-themed, culturally-informed oral and written communication. Class activities focus on interactions with patients for practitioners such as nurses, physical therapists, and others in the clinical setting such as receptionists, interpreters and doctors. Written materials at this level are mostly simple tasks such as planning future appointments and taking messages as well as summarizing interactions and readings. Grammar is reviewed and introduced in the service of communication. Medical vocabulary will encompass a substantial portion of the course. Many medical terms are cognates, thus careful attention to pronunciation will be required as students read words that look like English but are pronounced in Spanish. Fulfills requirement: Language and Culture. Prerequisite: SPA 102 or placement test. 3 credits. |
Either of the following:
SPA 202 Language and Culture in the
Spanish-Speaking World - Intermediate
Level II| This is an active and immersive language and culture course. Taught almost entirely in Spanish in which students will develop skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Spanish and cultural awareness of the cultures associated with Spanish. Fulfills requirement: Language and Culture. Prerequisite: SPA 201 or placement test. 3 credits. |
| This course is the second of a two-course sequence at the intermediate-level (SPA 211/212) designed for those students who plan to work in a healthcare field. The course expands on the medically-themed, culturally-informed oral and written communication acquired in SPA 211. Students will begin to examine the nuances of Spanish and be introduced to aspects that do not have ready English-language counterparts. A further goal is to broaden students' understanding of the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world, especially the Hispanic/Latinx communities in the United States. Fulfills requirement: Language and Culture. Prerequisite: SPA 201, 211, or placement test. 3 credits. |
Any Spanish course at the 300-level or above. At least 6 credits must be at this level.
At least 6 credits must be completed at LVC. Language minors are encouraged to fulfill an Immersive Experience requirement by studying abroad in a Spanish-speaking country. Students take courses in Spanish language, history, civilization, economics, and art.