Spanish Language

The Spanish Language Minor provides students with a better understanding of Spanish language and culture to enhance their skills in their professions and augment their career opportunities in the country’s multilingual settings and in other parts of the world. This program would be beneficial to individuals interested in studying Spanish as a foreign language and to heritage speakers of Spanish who have prior knowledge of the language.

Graduates of the program will acquire enhanced bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish, which will broad their career path and enable them to navigate a competitive job market effectively. The skills they develop will be especially useful in the multicultural and diverse urban area of New York City, where opportunities for bilingual individuals who speak Spanish and English are growing in the specialized fields of technology, health care professions, social services, paralegal professions, etc.

The Humanities department offers Spanish in two different tracks: Spanish for heritage speakers (SPA 2401, SPA 2402) and Spanish as an additional language (SPA 2201, SPA 2202). Students will study a different track of the Spanish sequence (SPA 2201 and SPA 2202 or SPA 2401 and SPA 2402) and cannot switch tracks without permission from a full-time Spanish language instructor.

Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the program should be able to

• Demonstrate written and conversational mastery of the Spanish language.

• Acquire sensitivity to social and ethnic diversity as well as cultural differences from a historically grounded perspective.

• Demonstrate an advanced understanding of language and literature in Spanish in a global context and from all historical periods.

• Demonstrate the ability to interpret and explain language variation and change according to the historical and socio-cultural contexts in which they occur.

Graduation Requirements

• All courses must be completed with a grade of C or higher.

Advisement Information

If you’re interested in declaring and earning an academic minor in Spanish Language, please consult the Academic Minors page for more information about minors and to download the appropriate forms. The coordinator for this academic minor is Dr. David Sánchez Jiménez, DSanchezJimenez@citytech.cuny.edu

For students with intermediate proficiency in Spanish, the Spanish Language Minor sequence commences with either SPA 2201 or SPA 2401. However, if placed in a lower-level course, such as SPA 1102, students will start their academic minor requirement at that level and complete 12 credit hours from the intermediate level (SPA 2201 or SPA 2401).

The language of instruction for all courses in the academic minor will be Spanish.