Spanish Education

Program Learning Outcomes

Achieve at least the Advanced level of Spanish competence in speaking, listening, reading, and writing comprehension as defined by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. (ACTFL guidelines.)
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of cultural ideas, practices, and products from the diverse Spanish-speaking world, placing them in their historical, political, and social contexts, and interpreting the unique perspectives on human experience that they reveal.
Demonstrate an understanding of dialectal differences in Peninsular and Latin-American Spanish by reference to fundamentals of phonetics, semantics, morphology, syntax, and sociolinguistic aspects.
Demonstrate the ability to function well in Spanish-speaking cultures while exhibiting cross-cultural humility in relation to those cultures.
Use Spanish effectively to integrate personal faith and cross-cultural interactions with Spanish speakers.
Demonstrate in-depth understanding of foreign-language teaching methods, best practices, standards (national, state, and institutional), and pedagogical theories by applying them to classroom situations to improve students’ Spanish-language proficiency and Spanish-cultural competence.