Description: The Academic Certificate (AC) in Spanish and Spanish Culture is designed to provide students with the essential language skills and vocabulary to communicate with confidence in diverse communicative situations. Instruction in the diverse cultural context will help students to understand the complex interdependence of language and culture.
Program Notes: Students must earn a grade of "C" or better for required within the program.
+ indicates course has prerequisites and/or corequisites.
++ indicates any module/suffixed courses.
Admission Criteria:
Program Prerequisites: None
Program Prerequisites
Credits:
Required Courses
SPA101 Elementary Spanish I 4
+SPA102 Elementary Spanish II 4
+SPA201 Intermediate Spanish I 4
+SPA202 Intermediate Spanish II 4
Credits: 16
Restricted Electives
Select a minimum of 6 (six) credits taught in Spanish and 3 (three) credits taught in English.
FLA240 Foreign Language Teaching Methods 3
GCU223 Geography of Latin America 3
HIS145 History of Mexico 3
HUM281 Hispanic Ideas and Values 3
MHL156 Music in Latin America and the Caribbean 3
SLC201 Introduction to Linguistics 3
SPA115 Beginning Spanish Conversation I 3
+SPA116 Beginning Spanish Conversation II 3
SPA117 Health Care Spanish I 3
+SPA118 Health Care Spanish II 3
SPA119 Spanish for Educational Settings I 3
+SPA120 Spanish for Educational Settings II 3
+SPA205 Spanish for Medical Interpretation I 3
+SPA206 Spanish for Medical Interpretation II 3
+SPA217 Spanish for Business Communication 4
+SPA225 Intermediate Spanish Conversation I 3
+SPA226 Intermediate Spanish Conversation II 3
+SPA235 Advanced Spanish Conversation I 3
+SPA236 Advanced Spanish Conversation II 3
+SPA241 Spanish and Spanish-American Film I 3
+SPA242 Spanish and Spanish-American Film II 3
+SPA251 Spanish Civilization 3
+SPA265 Advanced Spanish I 3
+SPA266 Advanced Spanish II 3
+SPA282++ Volunteerism for Spanish: A Service Learning Experience (any suffixed course) 1-3
+SPA298++ Special Projects (any suffixed course) 1-3
SPH245 Hispanic Heritage in the Southwest 3
SPH298++ Special Projects (any suffixed course)1-3
Credits: 9
General Electives
Credits:
Program Competencies
1. Demonstrate comprehension of written and oral passages and compose
small paragraphs that include biographical information, basic questions and descriptions, short narratives, brief dialogues, survival vocabulary, and current events. (SPA101)
2. Demonstrate comprehension of written and oral passages and compose written paragraphs that include narration in the past, present, or future, emotional reactions, current events, instructions, and commands. (SPA102)
3. Demonstrate comprehension of authentic written and oral passages and employ the written process that include detailed descriptions, subjective information, and narrations in the past, present, or future. (SPA201)
4. Employ the writing process and ask and answer oral questions in Spanish to provide detailed descriptions, subjective information, narrate in the past, present, and future, give instructions and commands, and maintain conversations. (SPA101, SPA102, SPA201, SPA202)
5. Demonstrate comprehension of authentic written and oral passages in Spanish that include detailed descriptions, subjective information, and narrations in the past, present, or future. (SPA202)
+ indicates course has prerequisites and/or corequisites.
++ indicates that any suffixed course may be selected.
MCCCD Governing Board Approval Date: June 25, 2013
All information published is subject to change without notice. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of information presented, but based on the dynamic nature of the
curricular process, course and program information is subject to change in order to reflect the most current information available.
