Advanced Spanish Certificate

Campus: Knoxville

Undergraduate Certificate Type: Add-On, Stand-Alone

Credit hours required

12 credit hours

Admissions Standards/Procedures

Students seeking admission to the Undergraduate Certificate must meet the admissions standards established by the Undergraduate Council. No grades below C are acceptable for students wishing to receive this certificate.

Required courses:

Complete 9 credit hours taking the following courses. 

• Select one course:

• SPAN 212* - Intermediate Spanish II 3 Credit Hours
• SPAN 218* - Honors: Intermediate Spanish II 3 Credit Hours

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  or

• SPAN 223* - Intensive Intermediate Spanish 6 Credit Hours

• NOTE: If you take SPAN 223, 3 credit hours (out of 6) will count towards the advanced certificate

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  Complete:

• SPAN 311* - Language in Context I 3 Credit Hours
• SPAN 312* - Language in Context II 3 Credit Hours

Electives:

Select one course:

• SPAN 315 - Spanish Phonetics and Phonology 3 Credit Hours
• SPAN 330 - Textual Analysis 3 Credit Hours
• SPAN 331 - Introduction to Hispanic Culture 3 Credit Hours
• SPAN 332 - Survey of Spanish Literature: 1700-Present 3 Credit Hours
• SPAN 333 - Survey of Spanish-American Literature: 1700-Present 3 Credit Hours
• SPAN 334 - Survey of Hispanic Literatures: Beginnings-1700 3 Credit Hours
• SPAN 346* - Language and Culture of the Hispanic Business World 3 Credit Hours
• SPAN 350* - Spanish for Medical & Healthcare Professions 3 Credit Hours
• SPAN 401 - Cultural Plurality and Institutional Changes in Latin America 3 Credit Hours
• SPAN 402 - Latin American and Caribbean Studies Seminar 3 Credit Hours
• SPAN 410 - Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics 3 Credit Hours
• SPAN 420 - Applied Linguistics 3 Credit Hours
• SPAN 422 - Advanced Grammar and Translation 3 Credit Hours
• SPAN 423* - Advanced Composition and Conversation 3 Credit Hours
• SPAN 430 - Topics in Hispanic Linguistics 3 Credit Hours
• SPAN 432 - Multilingualism 3 Credit Hours
• SPAN 433 - Gender and Sexuality in Hispanic Literature and Culture 3 Credit Hours
• SPAN 434* - Film and Visual Culture in the Hispanic World 3 Credit Hours

Non-course requirements

• Up to 3 credit hours may be transfer coursework.
• At least 3 credit hours used to satisfy a certificate’s requirements must be unique to any other credential (certificate, minor, or major) earned by the student

* Meets Volunteer Core  Requirement.