Certificate in Spanish for Public Services
Requirements (28 units)
Certificates may be earned by regularly matriculated or extended learning students and denote successful completion of a prescribed program of study designed to:
- impart specified professional/vocational/career competencies; or
- produce mastery of the content of a sub-field of an academic major (discipline); or
- provide exposure to the range of materials in a traditional or emerging interdisciplinary field.
Certain certificate programs contain 600-level courses as requirements and/or electives. These 600-level courses may not be taken by undergraduate students. Candidates must receive two-thirds of their certificate-applicable credit from the university. The transferring of credit or the substitution of courses may occur only after application to the appropriate campus authority.
Certificate Requirements
Proficiency in Spanish equal to SPAN 103 or equivalent. Note: Entering students with previous training in Spanish, and those who are heritage/native speakers, should contact the Department of World Languages and Literatures for information about advanced placement and credit by examination.
| Lower-division requirement (4) | ||
| SPAN 203 | Intermediate Spanish III | 4 |
| Upper-division requirements (24) | ||
| SPAN 302 | Theory and Practice in Composition | 4 |
| SPAN 312A-C | Techniques for Professional Interpreting and Translating in Spanish | 4 |
| SPAN 314 | Advanced Conversation | 4 |
| Four units chosen from: | 4 | |
| Spanish for the Professions: Communications | ||
| Spanish for the Professions: Health Science | ||
| Spanish for the Professions: Education | ||
| Spanish for the Professions: Business | ||
| Spanish for the Professions: Criminal Justice | ||
| Four units chosen from: | 4 | |
| Mexican Literature | ||
| Literature of the Southern Cone | ||
| Literature of the Caribbean | ||
| The Narrative of Spanish America | ||
| Literature of the Renaissance and the Spanish Golden Age | ||
| Romanticism and Realism in Spain | ||
| Twentieth Century Spanish Literature | ||
| Literature of the Indigenous Peoples of Spanish America | ||
| SPAN 415 | Comparative Linguistics: Spanish/English | 4 |
| Total Units | 28 | |