Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Major in Spanish

Minimum required: 120 semester credit hours

General Requirements

1. The general education core curriculum courses are listed in the degree plan below along with the statewide component code number. See the General Education Core Curriculum section of this catalog for the Texas State requirements and options in the core curriculum, including Honors courses.
2. In addition to the general education core curriculum requirements, the Bachelor of Arts degree (B.A.) requires three additional hours of English literature, three hours of math/science/logic/computer science courses, six hours of 2000-level modern language courses and a minor.
3. Nine hours of writing intensive (WI) courses are required for graduation.
4. Students must select a minor from the approved list of Undergraduate Minors.
5. Students must complete a minimum of 36 advanced hours (3000 or 4000 level courses).
6. The minimum number of hours required for this degree program is 120. The number of free elective hours a student will complete depends on the number of hours a student may need to achieve the required 120 total or 36 advanced hours.
7. Students in the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree with a major in Spanish must complete 24 advanced hours in Spanish and maintain a GPA of at least 2.50 in all advanced Spanish course work to meet graduation requirements. Students should complete the following advanced Spanish courses: 

   Course List

   Code	Title	Hours
   SPAN 3307	Advanced Composition for Spanish Heritage Speakers 1	3
   or SPAN 3308	Advanced Composition
   SPAN 3309	Introduction to Hispanic Literature and Literary Analysis 2	3
   SPAN 3340	Advanced Spanish Grammar and Stylistics	3
   Select three of the following:		9
   SPAN 3301	Literatures of Spain I
   SPAN 3302	Literatures of Spain II
   SPAN 3305	Latin American Literatures I
   SPAN 3306	Latin American Literatures II
   SPAN 3310	Spanish Phonetics and Phonemics
   SPAN 3311	Business Spanish I
   SPAN 3312	Business Spanish II
   SPAN 3370	Spanish Civilization
   SPAN 3371	Latin American Civilization
   Select two of the following:		6
   SPAN 4300	Professional Internship in Spanish
   SPAN 4302	The Spanish Novel
   SPAN 4311	Historical Aspects of Hispanic Linguistics
   SPAN 4312	Contemporary Aspects of Hispanic Linguistics
   SPAN 4330	The Latin American Novel
   SPAN 4341	Gabriel Garcia Marquez
   SPAN 4350	Hispanic Film
   SPAN 4361	Hispanic Poetry
   SPAN 4362	Hispanic Drama
   SPAN 4370	Hispanic Literature of the Southwest
   SPAN 4380A	Hispanic Nobel Prizes in Literature
   SPAN 4380E	Translation Practice and Theory
   SPAN 4380F	Mexican Literature
   SPAN 4380G	Women, Minorities and Marginal Groups in Medieval Spanish Literature
   SPAN 4380H	Nature and Nation in Latin American Literature
   Total Hours		24

   1	Prerequisite to all other upper division courses; may be taken simultaneously with SPAN 3309.
   2	Prerequisite to all other upper division courses in literature; may be taken simultaneously with SPAN 3307 or SPAN 3308.

Course Requirements