Bachelor of Arts in Languages, Literatures and Cultures - Spanish for the Professions

This concentration provides students with a foundation in Spanish for professional contexts, such as animal care, business, health care, and translation and interpreting. This concentration includes an accelerated option for students to graduate on a faster schedule.This concentration will provide students with a foundation in Spanish for professional contexts, such as animal care, business, health care, and translation & interpreting. While receiving a foundation in the Spanish language, literature and culture, students will specialize in course sequences in an area of their choice from among the options LLC offers.

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the program of study, students will demonstrate:

Communicative oral skills in the target language, including grammatical accuracy, correct use of tense, fluency, appropriate intonation, suitable vocabulary and discourse devices for expressing opinions or when giving research presentations.
Communicative writing skills in the target language, including clarity of ideas, grammatical accuracy and appropriate vocabulary, adequate elaboration of ideas through a variety of sentence structures and vocabulary, and logical flow of ideas through the use of discourse organizational devices.
Analytical skill in literary and cultural texts of the target language, including ability to formulate and present a topic of inquiry, to critically analyze the topic with valid supporting evidence, and to cogently synthesize and summarize the ideas in bibliographical sources and the results of their own analytical inquiry.
Increased sensitivity to and appreciation of cultural and linguistic differences.