Program: Spanish, BA Major in - Hofstra University

Apr 03, 2025

2021-2022 Undergraduate Bulletin

Program Requirements - Total Semester Hours: 33

33 semester hours in Spanish beyond SPAN 003 as specified below.

All students are strongly encouraged to meet with a Spanish faculty adviser once they declare this major and every semester after that until they graduate.

Category I - Semester Hours: 6-12

Take at least two courses (6 s.h.), but no more than four courses (12 s.h.) from this category. Students are encouraged to take SPAN 111 as one of them.

SPAN 004 - Gateway to Communication Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 005 - Advanced Spanish Reading Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 101 - Spanish for Business and the Commercial World Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 102 - Spanish for the Health Professions Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 106 - Spanish in the Media Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 108 - Conversation Practice Semester Hours: 0.5
SPAN 109 - Advanced Spanish Conversation Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 111 - Advanced Spanish Grammar Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 111B - Spanish for Spanish Speakers Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 112 - Advanced Spanish Writing Semester Hours: 3

Category II - Semester Hours: 6-12

Take at least two courses (6 s.h.), but no more than four courses (12 s.h.), from this category.

SPAN 113A - Culture(s) of Spain Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 113B - Cultures of Latin America Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 114A - (LT) Introduction to Spanish Literature I Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 114B - (LT) Introduction to Spanish-American Literature I Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 115A - (LT) Introduction to Spanish Literature II Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 115B - (LT) Introduction to Spanish-American Literature II Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 116 - Readings in Spanish Semester Hours: 1-3
SPAN 120 - Cultural Studies in Spain Today Semester Hours: 3

Category III - Semester Hours: 9 minimum

Take at least three courses (9 s.h.) from this category.

SPAN 122 - Economic History of Spain and Latin America: Literary Projections Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 123 - (LT) Politics of the Hispanic World Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 124 - (LT) Hispanic History of the United States Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 125 - (LT)Being Hispanic/Latino in the United States Today Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 126 - (LT) Contemporary Hispanic Thought: The Usable Past Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 127 - United States and Latin America: Unequal Relations Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 128 - (LT) Spain and Latin America Today: Changing World Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 129 - (LT) Contemporary Spanish Literature Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 131 - (CC) Popular Music in Spanish: Audiences, Industries, Geographies Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 132 - (LT) Poetry and the Visual Arts Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 133 - (LT) The Latin American Fantastic Short Story Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 140 - Intensive Approach to Spanish Skills Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 141 - Varieties of Spanish: Political and Ideological Issues Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 142 - The Spanish Language in History Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 143 - (CC) Spanish in Contact With Other Languages Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 144 - Spanish Language in the United States Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 145 A-Z - (LT) Journeys through the Spanish-speaking World Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 151 - (LT) Medieval and Early Modern Identities Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 162 - (LT) Spanish Golden Age Theater Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 171 - (LT) Don Quixote Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 180 A-Z - (LT) Special Topics in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 190 - (LT) Senior Seminar in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 192 - (LT) Romanticism, Realism and Naturalism Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 195 - (LT) The Generation of 1898 Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 197 - Departmental Honors Candidacy: Essay Semester Hours: 3

Electives

Students have the option to take one course (3 credits) from among the following electives, in place of the equivalent number of credits in either Category II or III above:

SPLT 012S - First-Year Seminar Semester Hours: 1-3
SPLT 014F - First-Year Seminar Semester Hours: 3-4
SPLT 014S - First-Year Seminar Semester Hours: 3-4
SPLT 050 A-Z - (LT) Contemporary Debates in the Spanish-Speaking World Semester Hours: 3
SPLT 051 - (LT) Don Quixote and the Modern Novel Semester Hours: 3
SPLT 052 - (LT) Interpreting the Hispanic Legacy Semester Hours: 3
SPLT 053 - Early Spanish-American Heritage Semester Hours: 3
SPLT 054 - (LT) 19th- and 20th-Century Latin-American Literature Semester Hours: 3
SPLT 055 - 20th-Century Spanish Outlook Semester Hours: 3
SPLT 056 - Spain Since the Civil War Semester Hours: 3
SPLT 057 - (LT) Going Public: Women Reading and Writing Semester Hours: 3
SPLT 058 - (LT, CC) The Empire Writes Back: Autobiography and Resistance in Colonial Spanish America Semester Hours: 3
SPLT 059 - (CC, LT) Farewell to Columbus: Rethinking the Latin American Heritage Semester Hours: 3
SPLT 060 - (CC, LT) Literary Food Semester Hours: 3
SPLT 061 - (LT) Love, Romance, and Eroticism in Medieval and Early Modern Spain Semester Hours: 3
SPLT 062 - (LT): Magic and Witchcraft in Spanish Literature Semester Hours: 3
SPAN 150 - Internship in Spanish Semester Hours: 1-6

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