Student Learning Outcomes for the Spanish Major
- The ability to read, write, comprehend and speak Spanish at an Advanced level
- The ability to sustain and defend in written and oral form an argument in Spanish
- The ability to engage primary and/or secondary texts in Spanish
- The ability to use appropriate critical terminology and to understand theories of interpretation, and apply them in their own writing
- The ability to frame and pursue a research question
- The ability to identify and integrate into their analysis relevant primary and secondary sources
- The ability to analyze texts from the Spanish, Latin American and Latino traditions within their cultural, political, social and historical contexts
- The ability to synthesize knowledge
- The ability to think critically in order to reach conclusions that go beyond re-stating the current state of research
- The ability to place and evaluate the text within its cultural, political, social and historical contexts