Spanish Major

Pre-1900 (category 1)

Spanish majors must take at least two courses from category 1.

• SPAN 460 - Spanish Renaissance and Baroque Poetry
• SPAN 461 - Theater of the Golden Age
• SPAN 462 - Cervantes’ Don Quijote
• SPAN 465 - 19th-Century Spanish Literature
• SPAN 466 - Colonial Latin American Literature
• SPAN 467 - Latin American Romanticism
• SPAN 468 - Visions and Re-visions of the Spanish Conquest: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
• SPAN 476 - Linguistic History of Spain
• SPAN 481 - Major Hispanic Authors
• SPAN 483 - Spanish American Modernismo: Spleen, Femme Fatales, Artificial Paradises

Post-1900 (category 2)

• SPAN 470 - Subject and the City: Imagined and Real
• SPAN 472 - From the Generation of ‘98 to the Contemporary Period
• SPAN 473 - The Spanish Contemporary Novel: From Censorship to Democracy
• SPAN 474 - Contemporary Short Fiction in Spanish
• SPAN 475 - Spanish as a Global Language
• SPAN 477 - Women Writing in Latin America
• SPAN 478 - Literature of the Caribbean
• SPAN 482 - Major Hispanic Authors
• SPAN 483 - Spanish American Modernismo: Spleen, Femme Fatales, Artificial Paradises
• SPAN 484 - Hispanic Writers and the Spanish Civil War
• SPAN 485 - Latin American Novels Before the Boom (1910-1950)

Regulations

The following regulations apply:

1. With some restrictions, only 300- and 400-level courses in language and literature may be counted.
2. SPAN 361  may be taken for major credit on campus only. An exception is made for students who have received credit for these courses by scoring 5 on the AP language exam.
3. A student who has completed a 400-level course may not take a 350-level survey course.
4. No course with a grade of less than C– is credited toward a major. For graduation, the minimum GPA required in courses counting toward a major is 2.00 (C); all departmental courses taken in the major are used to calculate this average.
5. No more than two departmental courses counting toward a major or may be taken in any one term. Exceptions to this rule can be made only under very unusual circumstances and with the approval of the department chair.

Honors and High Honors

Students interested in pursuing honors can find the additional requirements on the Romance Languages and Literatures  department page.