Professional Spanish Language Competency Micro-Credential

SPA – 2750 – Spanish in Context: Grammar, Identity, and Professional Voice (formally Intensive Intermediate Spanish Grammar Review)

The course is designed for students who wish to use Spanish in professional settings and is especially useful to already-proficient speakers (native, Heritage, and second-language learners) who have strong communication skills in Spanish but have had limited exposure to the formal study of language structure. Through comprehensive grammar review and writing practice, students explore how the Spanish language reflects Hispanic culture in social and professional settings. Students also examine the concept of how grammatical expression (in both oral and written exchange) underpins linguistic identity and facilitates communication with an awareness of purpose and audience. Career readiness is another key focus of this course, incorporating reflection on the National Association of Colleges and Employers’ eight competencies for a career-ready workforce (i.e., career & self-development, communication, critical thinking, equity & inclusion, leadership, professionalism, teamwork, and technology).

SPA 3110 – Advanced Conversation

This is an advanced course to broaden and strengthen the student’s conversational skills, emphasizing current topics in the Hispanic world. There is a service-learning component where students apply the material from class in a real world setting and reflect on their service experiences.

SPA 3140 – Advanced Composition

This course is designed to reinforce and develop further the student’s abilities in composition tasks that reflect the kind of writing students are generally asked to perform as Spanish majors. Classes are conducted in Spanish.

SPA 4010 –  Advanced Spanish Writing and Grammar I

This course is designed to afford the student of Spanish an overall acquaintance with contemporary grammatical analysis and terminology, in order to promote and enhance the student’s sensitivity regarding the syntactical structure of the Spanish oral and written modes of expression.

SPA 4010 –  Advanced Spanish Writing and Grammar I

This course is an intensive study of Spanish idiomatic expressions and selected vocabulary to strengthen the student’s language skills, with emphasis on written style and on the understanding of the Spanish syntax. The main purpose of this course is to enable the student to manipulate the target language with accuracy, elegance and assertiveness.