Learning Outcomes for Spanish majors and minors

Spring 2012

In accordance with the Spanish Department Mission Statement, we have the following learning outcomes for our majors and, to a lesser extent, our minors:

Students will be able to function successfully in Spanish in a variety of real-life situations
Students will be able to make polished formal and informal presentations on a variety of topics
Students will be able to understand the gist as well as several discrete details of discourse as spoken by native speakers of Spanish at native speed
Students will be able to write in Spanish with a high degree of grammatical correctness and appropriate choices of vocabulary and idiomatic expressions
Students will be able to converse in Spanish in connected discourse in a variety of time frames
Students will be able to recognize and respect cultural differences among the different Spanish-speaking countries