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Program checklist · Spanish Major

Spanish Major

College of the Holy Cross · Worcester, MA

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Program
Award
Spanish Major
Catalog edition
Catalog 2026-2027
Checklist type
degree-program
Description
Students with AP credit in Spanish earn placement in the curriculum but not progress toward the minimum number of courses required by the major. Students with AP or IB credit will be advised of their placement in Spanish by taking the obligatory Spanish Background Questionnaire. Students should submit their AP scores to the Registrar's office for it to officially appear on the transcript.
Identifiers
IPEDS UNITID
166124
CourseShelf checklist
CK_166124_56987c21_1
CollegeTransfer.Net
Institution Transfer Profile
Source
CourseShelf publish 61

Requirements to complete

Every course or condition the catalog lists, in the catalog's order.

Requirements

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    Required courses:

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      Area 1: Composition and Conversation (one required): 1

      2 items
      1. As published: “Spanish Composition & Conversation”
        1
      2. As published: “Español para Hispanohablantes”
        1

      Area 2: Focused Language (one required):

      8 items
      1. As published: “Filmmaking in Spanish”
        1
      2. As published: “Spanish for Business”
        1
      3. As published: “Adv Oral Expression”
        1
      4. As published: “Spanish Grammar Through Translation”
        1
      5. As published: “Latin American Art”
        1
      6. As published: “Foundations of Inclusive Spanish Language Teaching”
        1
      7. As published: “Creative Writing in Spanish”
        1
      8. As published: “Writing the Short Story”
        1

      Area 3: Culture and Cinema (one required):

      5 items
      1. As published: “Aspects of Spanish Culture”
        1
      2. As published: “Aspects of Spanish-American Culture”
        1
      3. As published: “Latin American Art”
        1
      4. As published: “Latin American Film”
        1
      5. As published: “Spanish Film and Literature”
        1

      Area 4: Linguistics (one required):

      5 items
      1. As published: “Phonetics & Phonology”
        1
      2. As published: “Spanish in the U.S.”
        1
      3. As published: “Second Language Acquisition & Spanish”
        1
      4. As published: “Bilingualism in Spanish Speaking World”
        1
      5. As published: “Cultural History of Spanish Lang”
        1

      Area 5: Introduction to Textual Analysis (one required):

      1 item
      1. As published: “Intro to Textual Analysis 2”
        1

      Area 6: Readings in Literature (one required):

      2 items
      1. As published: “Readings in Latin American Lit”
        1
      2. As published: “Readings in Spanish Literature”
        1

      Area 7: Advanced Pre-Modern Studies (one required):

      5 items
      1. As published: “Medieval Spanish Literature”
        1
      2. As published: “Early Modern Spanish Literature”
        1
      3. As published: “Don Quixote”
        1
      4. As published: “Colonial Span Amer Literature”
        1
      5. As published: “Global Iberian Race”
        1

      Area 8: Advanced Modern Studies (one required):

      9 items
      1. As published: “Depicting Spanish Modernity”
        1
      2. As published: “Modern Spanish-American Narrative”
        1
      3. As published: “Staging Spain”
        1
      4. As published: “Modern Span & Span-Amer Poetry”
        1
      5. As published: “Body & Text: Gender in Spanish Literature”
        1
      6. As published: “Spanish Film and Literature”
        1
      7. As published: “Federico García Lorca”
        1
      8. As published: “Latinidades in Literature & Pop Culture”
        1
      9. As published: “Female Voices in Modern and Contemporary Spain”
        1

      In addition to one course in each of the 8 areas specified above, Spanish majors must take at least two electives, which may be second or third courses in a given area.

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        Note: Students who begin their study of Spanish above SPAN 301 or 302 do not need to satisfy area 1. Instead they should take a third elective to complete the ten-course minimum requirement.

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          Note: It is recommended that two of the minimum of ten courses be taken at the 400 level in the fourth year.

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            Source. College of the Holy Cross, catalog Catalog 2026-2027 — https://catalog.holycross.edu/academic-plans/spanish/spanish-major/. Captured page pages/0065.html.gz. Assembled from the institution's published catalog as captured; every record names its captured page and source URL. Assembled, not asserted.