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2025-2026 Catalog

Certificate in Spanish & Latinx Studies

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Prerequisites: SOU Spanish Placement Level 5 or SPAN 203 with a C- or better.

(28 credits)

Core Classes (16 credits)

SPAN 310 - Introduction to Society and Culture in the Spanish Speaking World 4 credits
SPAN 311 - Latino/Latina/Latinx Roots and Identity 4 credits
or
SPAN 411 - U.S. Latino/Latina/Latinx Issues 4 credits
SPAN 312 - Hispanic Culture through Artistic Expressions 4 credits
SPAN 315 - Spanish Grammar Review 4 credits

Electives (12 credits)

Select one of the options below:

Choose 12 credits from the following:

SPAN 319 - Creative Writing in Spanish 4 credits
SPAN 320 - Topics in Hispanic Film 4 credits
SPAN 321 - Introduction to Reading Hispanic Literature 4 credits
SPAN 421 - Selected Genre or Historical Period Studies 4 credits
SPAN 322 - Influential Writers in Hispanic Literature 4 credits
SPAN 422 - Major Literary Figures 4 credits
SPAN 325 - Topics in Contemporary Hispanic Literature and Society 4 credits
SPAN 425 - Topics in Contemporary Hispanic Literature and Society 4 credits each
SPAN 331 - The Sounds of Spanish 4 credits
SPAN 341 - Topics in Hispanic Cultural Studies 4 credits
SPAN 441 - Topics in Hispanic Cultural Studies 4 credits each
SPAN 381 - Topics in Theoretical and Applied Spanish Linguistics 4 credits each
SPAN 481 - Topics in Theoretical and Applied Spanish Linguistics 4 credits each
SPAN 382 - Topics in Writing and Translation 4 credits
SPAN 482 - Topics in Writing and Translation 4 credits each

Or choose 8 credits from the courses in the section above and 4 credits from the following:

EMDA 401 - Research in Digital Media 1 to 4 credits (somos oregonenses-DigiResearch)
ENG 443 - Chicanx Literature 4 credits
FL 205 - Introduction to Latinx Perspectives 4 credits
HST 345 - Atlantic World I: Spain, Portugal, Africa and the Caribbean, 700-1500 4 credits
HST 346 - Atlantic World II: Colonial Latin America 1500-1750 4 credits
HST 347 - Atlantic World III: Republicanism, Independence and Abolition, 1750-1900 4 credits
HST 348 - Marx and Jesus in Latin America 4 credits
HST 352 - Modern Latin America 4 credits
HST 454 - U.S.-Latin American Relations 4 credits / PS 454 - U.S.-Latin American Relations
HST 464 - Mexico 4 credits
SOAN 310A - Latinx in Oregon 4 credits
SPAN 313A - Medical Spanish for Front Office Personnel 4 credits
SPAN 313B - Medical Spanish for Clinical Staff 4 credits
SPAN 313C - Spanish Medical Terminology for Healthcare Providers 4 credits