Spanish

Overview

Building on their linguistic proficiency consolidated in the language program, majors expand that proficiency to a wide variety of Hispanic texts. This training exercises and assures our students' ability to analyze texts and contexts, as well as to conceive, articulate, and defend an original idea.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the Spanish program at Boston College, students should be able to:

• speak in Spanish to describe, narrate stories, and carry on spontaneous conversations about topics such as family, professions, food, clothing, health, likes and dislikes and the past.

• comprehend the target language well enough to understand the main ideas and additional details in short conversations referring to the topics mentioned above and other situations in different verb tenses.

• read and understand texts (some prepared specifically for students and some primary sources) dealing with a variety of cultural products and practices.

• write basic compositions about a variety of themes in simple but complete sentences and compose short paragraphs, displaying good control of Spanish grammar and sentence structure.

• recognize, appreciate and compare similarities and differences between their own culture and Spanish-speaking cultures.