Bachelor of Arts in Spanish, One Year Study Abroad

The Spanish major offers students an opportunity to gain the cultural and linguistic proficiency that will enable them to understand and explore in depth different aspects of the Hispanic culture and the Spanish language. The content and experiences in the required courses will help prepare students to use Spanish in professional contexts focusing on culture, film, linguistics, literature, and translation. Study abroad opportunities are interwoven into the fabric of the curriculum to increase Spanish fluency, proficiency, awareness, and sensitivity of the social dynamics surrounding language, and their relevance when placed in various academic, social, political, professional, and religious contexts of the Spanish-speaking world.

Students who intend to use ACA classes to major or minor in Spanish must be advised by the program director or department chair before registering for classes.

The Spanish Major and Minor Program at Oakwood University focuses on the holistic development of Spanish literacies through the analysis and use of Spanish as a second language, heritage, or native language. The program's specific objective is to develop Spanish majors and minors in four interrelated and interdependent competencies:  

Students who complete the B.A. in Spanish will be proficient in the following student learning outcomes:  

1. Communicative Competence: communicate and interact in oral and in written form considering cultures, pragmatics, and sociocultural linguistic applications within communities that speak Spanish.  
2. Linguistic and Literary Competence: analyze and interpret a variety of oral or written discourse and text to answer the questions to problems of an expanding globalized world.
3. Metalinguistic Competence: increase awareness by discussing, examining, and thinking of language: its use, functions, and forms to continue to perform in an increasingly globalized society.  
4. Christian Life Competence: show compassion, integrity, and stewardship through service learning within their community. 

Spanish Majors should be able to demonstrate communicative proficiency at the advanced low level according to the standards laid out by The American Council of the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Spanish Minors should be able to demonstrate the communicative proficiency at the intermediate high level as laid out by ACTFL.LI  https://www.actfl.org/resources/actfl-proficiency-guidelines-2012/spanish