Will Getting A Minor In Spanish Help Me Learn Spanish?

Learn Castilian

Bachelor of Arts in Globe Languages and Cultures, Concentration in Spanish Studies or Concentration in Spanish for the Professions

Format: In person on the Armstrong Campus, Statesboro Campus and online
Credit Hours: 124

Spanish – the official language of twenty countries and nearly 560 1000000 people around the world. In the U.s.a. alone, 13% of the population speaks Spanish at habitation – making it the second largest population of Spanish speakers in the world later Mexico. Castilian is besides the language of some of the world'southward best cuisine, fine art, sport, compages and literature.

And so get fix to speak Castilian!

Spanish Concentrations

• Castilian Studies: Discover Spanish language and civilization with a broad range of coursework in history, literature, art, picture and more. Available in Savannah, Statesboro or 100% online.
• Castilian for the Professions: (coming in Fall 2022) Gain a deep understanding of accurate Spanish language and culture in professions such equally business organization, government, health care and more than. Available 100% online.

Why Learn Spanish at Georgia Southern?

• Castilian, after Standard mandarin Chinese, is the most spoken start language in the earth.
• Participate in face up-to-confront and online classes.
• The Castilian linguistic communication curriculum encourages double majors and dual degrees.
• Participate in your own independent study opportunities in both Spain and Latin America.
• Gain a deeper understanding of culture, art, politics, music, literature, organized religion and history.
• Go fully prepared to piece of work and live in the Spanish-speaking earth.
• Continue your Spanish studies at the graduate level with our MA and MAT in Spanish

What Can You Do With a Major in Spanish?

An agreement of the Spanish language and hispanic culture is becoming disquisitional for employers in the U.S. and around the world. Employers value workers with existing linguistic communication skills, especially when they do not have to permit for the time and expense for grooming.

Spanish speakers are in high need. If you accept achieved fluency or professional working proficiency in Castilian, you will have a leg upwardly in the job marketplace for many unlike positions such equally:

• Circulate media managing director
• Consultant
• Contract or corporate consultant
• Copy Editor
• Crypto Language Annotator
• Development program officer
• Doctor/nurse
• Engineer
• FBI/NSA/CIA agent
• Foreign service officer
• Government relations specialist
• Human intelligence collector
• Human rights representative
• Immigration and customs work
• Intelligence analyst or officeholder
• International banking
• International marketing
• International relations manager
• Interpreter
• Journalist
• Lawyer or legal assistant
• Legislator
• Linguist/Linguistic communication analyst
• Armed forces translator or interpreter
• Museum management
• National Security Annotator
• Political hazard analyst
• Professor
• Public relations
• Reporter
• Social media managing director
• Instructor
• Translator
• Travel and tourism careers
• Web development

Kelvin Escolero

Degree: B.A. in Castilian, dual enrollment in M.A. and M.A.T. in Spanish

Career: Spanish instructor

"Going into college I knew that I wanted to go into the educational activity field, but I never thought that I would be teaching a language. I am currently education Upper School Spanish ane in Savannah, Ga. Majoring in modern languages has helped me open those doors into the education field not only past didactics my students a unlike language, but past educating everyone around me with all of the valuable information I learned throughout my years at Georgia Southern University.
With language comes culture and with culture there are so many stories backside the person sitting right next you. Multifariousness is what makes this land great so let's larn about different cultures and brainwash others nigh them!"

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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates job growth for interpreters and translators volition be much faster than average through 2029. – bls.gov

The 2020 GDP of Latin America and the Caribbean totaled more than $4.vii trillion. – worldbank.org

Nine out of ten U.Southward. employers written report a reliance on U.Southward.-based employees with language skills other than English. – businesswire.com

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Castilian Linguistic communication Curriculum

Foundation Spanish Courses

• Simple Castilian I
  • Introduction to listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Castilian and to the culture of Castilian-speaking regions.
• Elementary Spanish II
  • Continued listening, speaking, reading and writing, in Spanish with further study of the culture of Spanish- speaking regions.
• Intermediate Spanish I
  • Building upon advice skills (understanding, speaking, reading, and writing Spanish) and cultural understanding, developed at the elementary level.
• Intermediate Castilian Ii
  • Connected edifice upon proficiency skills (speaking, writing, listening, and reading) and cultural agreement. Focus on development of the ability to create with the language, to resolve simple situations, and to ask and answer questions. Afterwards completing this course, successful students should be prepared to office minimally in a Spanish-speaking environment and to have SPAN upper-division courses.
• Accelerated Intermediate Spanish
  • Accelerated intermediate Castilian with continued work on listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Spanish and the culture of Castilian-speaking regions. Completes the intermediate levels of Castilian in ane semester.

Additional Spanish Courses

• Applied Speaking Skills I
  • This course provides practise in listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills with emphasis on speech at the intermediate level of proficiency, based on the ACTFL guidelines. Focus is placed on the development of narration, description, summary, comparing, and caption in all major time frames within specific communicative contexts in paragraph-length soapbox.
• Practical Speaking Skills Ii
  • This course builds on listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills with an accent on oral communication at the advanced level of proficiency, based on the ACTFL guidelines. Students will focus on speaking and the acquisition of advanced grammatical concepts appropriate for more circuitous communicative tasks, including stating and supporting opinions, hypothesizing, and speaking in the abstract in linked-paragraph discourse.
• Critical Reading and Writing I
  • This course provides practice in writing, reading, and oral skills with emphasis on reading comprehension and written communication at the intermediate level of proficiency, based on the ACTFL guidelines. Focus is placed on the development of narration, description, summary, comparison, and explanation in all major time frames within specific communicative contexts in paragraph-length discourse.
• Critical Reading and Writing II
  • This course builds on writing, reading, and oral skills with emphasis on reading comprehension and written communication at the avant-garde level of proficiency, based on the ACTFL guidelines. Students volition focus on the acquisition of advanced grammatical concepts appropriate for the production and comprehension of more than complex texts. This course targets communicative tasks such as stating and supporting opinions, hypothesizing, and writing in the abstract, all in linked-paragraph soapbox
• Castilian Phonetics & Phonology
  • A detailed analysis both in theory and in exercise of Spanish voice communication patterns, vowels, consonants, and intonation.
• Chat, Composition, Civilization: South America
  • Focuses on improving linguistic and cultural proficiency within the context of Spanish American cultural content. Course content varies; may include movie, music, art, literature, history, etc. Emphasis will be placed on helping students reach consistency with paragraph formation, narration, detailed clarification, and resolving a situation with a complication. The linguistic goal of the class is to help students approach the betoken at which they can communicate at ease with a native speaker of Spanish who is unaccustomed to speaking with not-Spanish speakers.
• Conversation, Limerick, Culture: Mexico & Central America
  • Focuses on improving linguistic and cultural proficiency within the context of Mexican and Central American cultural content. Course content varies; may include film, music, fine art, literature, history, etc. Emphasis will exist placed on helping students achieve consistency with paragraph formation, narration, detailed description, and resolving a situation with a complication. The linguistic goal of the course is to help students arroyo the bespeak at which they can communicate at ease with a native speaker of Spanish who is unaccustomed to speaking with not-Spanish speakers.
• Conversation, Composition, Culture: The Caribbean area
  • Focuses on improving linguistic and cultural proficiency within the context of Caribbean area cultural content. Course content varies; may include motion-picture show, music, fine art, literature, history, etc. Emphasis volition be placed on helping students accomplish consistency with paragraph formation, narration, detailed description, and resolving a situation with a complexity. The linguistic goal of the class is to help students approach the point at which they tin communicate at ease with a native speaker of Spanish who is unaccustomed to speaking with non-Spanish speakers.
• Conversation, Composition, Civilisation: Kingdom of spain
  • Focuses on improving linguistic and cultural proficiency within the context of Peninsular cultural content (Kingdom of spain). Form content varies; may include motion-picture show, music, art, literature, history, etc. Emphasis will be placed on helping students achieve consistency with paragraph formation, narration, detailed description, and resolving a situation with a complication. The linguistic goal of the form is to aid students approach the point at which they tin can communicate at ease with a native speaker of Spanish who is unaccustomed to speaking with non-Spanish speakers.
• Conversation, Composition, Civilization: Latino USA
  • Focuses on improving linguistic and cultural proficiency within the context of Us Latino cultural content. Course content varies; may include movie, music, art, literature, history, etc. Emphasis volition be placed on helping students achieve consistency with paragraph formation, narration, detailed clarification, and resolving a state of affairs with a complication. The linguistic goal of the course is to help students approach the point at which they can communicate at ease with native speakers of Spanish.
• Selected Topics
  • Exploration of a variety of topics (cultural, historical, literary, etc.), with attention more than to theme than to period or place. Emphasis placed on helping students achieve consistency with paragraph formation, narration, detailed clarification, and resolving a situation with a complication. The linguistic goal of the grade is to help students approach the indicate at which they tin communicate with ease with native speakers of Spanish. May be repeated for boosted credit when the topic changes.
• Spanish for the Professions
  • This grade incorporates accurate cultural materials and situational practice as students explore a wide range of avant-garde-level Spanish content and discourse related to professions.
• Advanced Spanish for Health Care Professions
  • Skills and techniques needed to work equally a translator/ interpreter in the healthcare field, with an introduction to the diverseness of careers available to bilingual healthcare professionals.
• Introduction to Hispanic Literature
  • Introduction to literary and cultural texts in Spanish: to their product, interpretation, and signification. Selected works may include examples of poetry, narrative, drama, essay, and motion picture. Students will study and practice the basics of textual analysis while they go on to work on the power to characterize, describe, and explain in all fourth dimension frames
• Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
  • What is language? How do languages function? How is human being language unlike from other communication systems? Focusing on Spanish, this course explores language acquisition, language contact, and bilingualism.
• Foundations of Translation
  • This course is an introduction to the field of translation. It focuses on comparative report of characteristic modes of expression and introduction to the theoretical aspects and practical techniques of translation, using documents from a variety of sources.
• Castilian American Life, Literature, and Thought
  • An exploration of the life, literature, and thought of Spanish America, with focus on building avant-garde-level proficiency in writing, listening, reading, and speaking.
• Peninsular Life, Literature, and Thought
  • An exploration of the life, literature, and thought of Spain, with focus on edifice avant-garde-level proficiency in writing, listening, reading, and speaking.
• Studies in Hispanic Film
  • Practice of Superior-level Spanish-proficiency skills through study of the films of the Spanish-speaking world. Situates works in their cultural, historical, and aesthetic contexts using appropriate critical methodologies. Course repeatable for credit with advisor approving.

World Languages and Cultures B.A., Concentration in Spanish Studies Curriculum

Already know some Spanish? View the Language Course Placement Guide.

Foreign Linguistic communication Assessments and Leave Exam Requirements

Minor in Spanish

Having a small in Spanish will allow you to communicate intra-, inter- and trans-culturally. Y'all'll exist able to conform to different environments, exist more than sensitive to diversity and think more critically.

Castilian for the Professions Minor (coming in Autumn 2022)

Latin American Studies Minor Courses and Curriculum

Kayla Cobb

Caste: B.S. Physical Therapy, Spanish minor

"I took Spanish classes just to fulfill my core classes, not knowing that l'd fall in love with it. Subsequently taking a couple of classes, I decided to pursue my minor in Spanish and studied abroad in Republic of costa rica for a calendar month. It was then when my dear and passion for Castilian culture was solidified. My pocket-sized has helped me in many aspects of my life. I can bond and communicate with the Spanish patients in the clinics and I've continued to visit other Spanish countries and explore more of the civilisation."

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Spanish Degree Options

• Bachelor of Arts in Globe Languages and Cultures, Concentration in Spanish Studies: 124 credit hours
• Bachelor of Arts in World Languages and Cultures, Spanish for the Professions Concentration: 124 credit hours
• Modest in Spanish: 15 credit hours
• Minor in Latin American Studies: fifteen credit hours
• Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies, Concentration in Spanish: 124 credit hours
• Bachelor of Scientific discipline in International Merchandise, Spanish as Language Component: 124 credit hours
• Bachelor of Arts in International Studies, Spanish Emphasis: 124 credit hours
• Spanish Proficiency Area of Distinction for the European Wedlock Studies Certificate: vi credit hours
• The document in European Spousal relationship Studies is operated under the supervision of the European Council of the Academy System of Georgia. The program is open to all institutions and students of the University System of Georgia also as to professionals with an undergraduate degree.
• M.A. in Castilian, M.A.T. in Spanish, or Dual Enrollment in both

Learn Castilian in a Study Abroad Experience

Study Abroad Classes

For classes in Spain and Republic of colombia, you volition be enrolled in six credit hours of lower or upper division courses and will practice a series of assignments, both orally and in writing, for your Georgia Southern professor. Additionally, every bit role of your immersion feel, each morning, Monday – Friday, in minor groups, you will spend iv hours practicing your language skills with native speakers who are trained in teaching their linguistic communication to foreigners.

Seville, Espana

Seville is the uppercase of southern Spain'southward Andalusia region and is the fourth largest city in Spain. Steeped in history, the city is abode to Europe's largest historic centre. Major landmarks include the ornate Alcázar castle complex, built during the Moorish Almohad dynasty, and the 18th-century Plaza de Toros de la Maestranza bullring. The Gothic Seville Cathedral is the site of Christopher Columbus' tomb and a minaret turned bell tower, the Giralda.

Learn more about Seville, Spain

Partner Language School

CLIC (Centro de Lenguas e Intercambio Cultural) is a Castilian language and culture written report abroad program located in Seville, Spain. CLIC was founded in 1983 and is defended to providing a diverseness of intensive and flexible programs for those interested in acquiring functional fluency in Spanish while learning nigh the Spanish civilization. To larn more about CLIC and Seville, view the photobook (pdf).

Cultural Activities and Excursions

• Flamenco/Sevillanas mini-course
• Castilian cooking lessons
• Excursions to Córdoba (including visit to the Mezquita), Granada and other locations

Barranquilla, Colombia

Barranquilla, the capital of Republic of colombia'southward Atlántico Department, is a bustling seaport on the Magdalena River. Barranquilla is the largest city and port in the northern Caribbean Coast region of Colombia, with a population over two million. The city is known for its enormous Carnival, which brings together brilliantly costumed performers, elaborate floats and cumbia music.

Learn more about Barranquilla, Republic of colombia

Partner Language School

Universidad del Norte is an innovative academy, recognized every bit the most outstanding institution of higher learning in the Caribbean area Region of Colombia. The Language Constitute at Universidad del Norte has been offering Spanish as a foreign language courses since 1994. The university offers between three and six weeks of study and cultural immersion, with six different levels based upon language proficiency.

Cultural Activities and Excursions

• Dancing lessons of Caribbean rhythms such as salsa, merengue, vallenato, champeta, reggaeton, and some more traditional similar cumbia, mapalé, and bullerengue
• Culinary lessons
• Barranquilla tours and field trips
• Cartagena and Barú Island, Usiacurí, Santa Marta, Taganga and other locations

The World Languages and Cultures section also offers Independent Study Away programs.

Spanish Linguistic communication Clubs, Events and Educatee Activities

• El society de Español
  The goal of the Spanish club is to promote Hispanic and Latino civilisation. The Spanish society organizes meetings twice a month and a variety of cultural events throughout the year. Look for postings on campus and contact the Section of Globe Languages and Cultures for more information.
• La Mesa de Conversación
  Students studying Spanish meet regularly every semester to practice Castilian in a coincidental setting and have fun! Look for postings on campus and check with Castilian kinesthesia for more information.
• Sigma Delta Pi (Sociedad Nacional Honoraria Hispánica)
  Sigma Delta Pi, or Spanías Didagéi Proágomen, is the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society.

Angela Williams

Caste: B.A. Globe Languages, Spanish

Career: Castilian teacher at Esther F. Garrison School for the Arts

"Majoring in World Languages and Cultures has helped me immensely in my job as a Spanish teacher. I take been able to use my caste to expose students to a new language, new ways of thinking, increasing cultural sensation, and advocating for social justice. I am also able to connect our Spanish speaking families to the larger school community and abet for their needs."

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Spanish Language Kinesthesia

Georgia Southern'south Spanish plan features 16 kinesthesia with decades of feel as trained specialists in the history and culture of particular regions of the Spanish-speaking globe. All of our faculty have received nationally recognized training from the American Quango on the Teaching of Strange Languages. They are genuinely interested in your learning and success, and will provide you with all the tools and support you'll demand during your Georgia Southern learning feel.

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Final updated: 2/23/2022

Source: https://cah.georgiasouthern.edu/languages/programs/spanish/

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