Liberal Arts and Professional Studies – Spanish

Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics

Students may opt for a Specialized Honours BA, an Honours BA, a BA, an Honours Double Major, an Honours Double Major (Interdisciplinary), an Honours Major/Minor, an Honours Minor. The Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics also offers a Certificate of Language Proficiency in Spanish.

Engage with the language, literatures and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world in all their magnitude and diversity. Interact with faculty specializing in various areas of leading-edge research on Spain and Latin America. Master listening, reading, writing and speaking in Spanish, while discovering the Spanish-speaking world’s social and cultural context. Spanish courses explore a wide variety of topics: the 900-year literary tradition of Spain; the innovative work of Latin America's writers; and the social, historical and pedagogical aspects of Spanish linguistics.

Experience all the Spanish program has to offer: publish in the student literary magazine ENTRE VOC/ZES; connect with community and univerisity-wide activities, lectures series, theatre and music/literary events; gain valuable research and cross-cultural skills and build your international networks by participating in faculty-led research projects. Participate in study abroad and summer internship programs to Spain and Latin America.

Course offerings include: Literature and Music in Spanish America; Theatre of the Golden Age; Varieties of Spanish Worldwide; and Otherness in Spanish Literature and Cinema.

Career options include: education; foreign service; international development; social services; arts; media; journalism; national and international law, business and finance; publishing.

The Spanish program studies the language, literatures, and linguistics of Spain and Spanish America. Students undertake intensive training in listening, reading, writing, and speaking, while discovering the Spanish-speaking world’s social and cultural context. Spanish courses explore a wide variety of topics: the 900-year literary tradition of Spain; the innovative work of Latin America's writers; and the social, historical, and pedagogical aspects of Spanish linguistics. Qualified bilingual graduates are sought after in national and international law, business, and finance, the media, social services, medicine, education, hospitality, and the environment because they can communicate in a major international language. Spanish is an ideal match, as a specialization, as part of a double major, or as a minor, with any program in the humanities or social sciences and may also inform programs in the natural or physical sciences. Students can participate in York International's study abroad and summer internship programs to Spain and Latin America.

Specialized Honours BA: 120 Credits

Residency requirement: a minimum of 30 course credits and at least half (50 per cent) of the course credits required in each undergraduate degree program major/minor must be taken at York University.

Graduation requirement: students must successfully complete (pass) at least 120 credits which meet the Faculty's degree and program requirements with a cumulative grade point average of at least 5.00.

General education: 24 credits of general education chosen from approved courses in humanities, modes of reasoning, natural science and social science, including a minimum of six credits in each of humanities, natural science and social science.

Major credits: students will take at least 54 credits in Spanish, including the following:

AP/SP 2000 6.00 or AP/SP 2010 6.00;
AP/SP 2200 6.00;
AP/SP 3000 6.00 or AP/SP 3050 6.00;
12 credits at the 4000 level;
24 additional credits at the 3000 or 4000 level.

Upper-level credits: at least 36 credits at the 3000 or 4000 level, including at least 18 credits at the 4000 level.

Credits outside the major: at least 18 credits.

Honours BA: 120 Credits

Major credits: students will take at least 42 credits in Spanish, including the following:

AP/SP 2000 6.00 or AP/SP 2010 6.00;
AP/SP 2200 6.00;
AP/SP 3000 6.00 or AP/SP 3050 6.00;
24 additional credits at the 3000 or 4000 level, of which at least 12 credits must be at the 4000 level.

Upper-level credits: at least 36 credits at the 3000 or 4000 level, including at least 18 credits at the 4000 level.

Credits outside the major: at least 18 credits. (Note: students who are completing a double major or major/minor are deemed to have fulfilled this requirement.)

Honours Double Major BA

The Honours BA program described above may be pursued jointly with approved Honours Double Major degree programs in the Faculties of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, Environmental Studies, Fine Arts, Faculty of Health or Faculty of Science and Engineering. For further details on requirements, refer to the listings for specific Honours programs that may be pursued jointly with other Faculties.

Note: in a double major program, a course may count only once toward major credit.

Honours Double Major Interdisciplinary (Linked) BA

Spanish may be linked with any Honours Double Major Interdisciplinary BA program in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies. Students must take at least 36 credits in Spanish and at least 36 credits in the interdisciplinary program. Courses taken to meet Spanish requirements cannot also be used to meet the requirements of the interdisciplinary program. Students in these interdisciplinary programs must take a total of at least 18 credits at the 4000 level, including at least 12 credits in Spanish and six credits in the interdisciplinary program. For further details of requirements, refer to the listings for specific Honours Double Major Interdisciplinary BA programs.

Note: in a double major program, a course may count only once toward major credit.

Major credits: the 36 credits in Spanish must include the following:

AP/SP 2000 6.00 or AP/SP 2010 6.00;
AP/SP 2200 6.00;
AP/SP 3000 6.00 or AP/SP 3050 6.00;
18 additional credits at the 3000 or 4000 level, of which at least 12 credits must be at the 4000 level.

Honours Major/Minor BA

The Honours BA program described above may be pursued jointly with approved Honours Minor degree programs in the Faculties of Environmental Studies, Fine Arts, Health, Liberal Arts and Professional Studies or Science and Engineering. For further details on requirements, refer to the listings for specific Honours programs that may be pursued jointly with other Faculties.

Honours Minor BA

The Honours Minor BA program described may be combined with any approved Honours BA program that offers a major/minor option in the Faculties of Environmental Studies, Fine Arts, Health, Liberal Arts and Professional Studies or Science and Engineering. For further details on requirements, refer to the listings for specific Honours programs that may be pursued jointly with other Faculties.

Note: in a major/minor program, a course may count only once toward major credit or minor credit.

Minor credits: students will take at least 30 credits in Spanish, including the following:

AP/SP 2000 6.00 or AP/SP 2010 6.00;
AP/SP 2200 6.00;
AP/SP 3000 6.00 or AP/SP 3050 6.00;
at least 12 further credits at the 3000 or 4000 level, of which at least six credits must be at the 4000 level.

Note: at least six credits in the minor must be at the 4000 level.

BA: 90 Credits

Graduation requirement: students must successfully complete (pass) at least 90 credits that meet the Faculty's degree and program requirements with a cumulative grade point average of at least 4.00.

Major credits: students will take at least 30 credits in Spanish, including the following:

AP/SP 2000 6.00 or AP/SP 2010 6.00;
AP/SP 2200 6.00;
AP/SP 3000 6.00 or AP/SP 3050 6.00;
at least 12 further credits at the 3000 or 4000 level.

Upper-level credits: at least 18 credits at the 3000 or 4000 level.

Credits outside the major: at least 18 credits.

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