A Guide to the Spanish Major at UC Irvine
2016 - 2017
All courses for the major must be taken for letter grades.
Residence Requirement in the major: A minimum of five upper-division courses required for the major must be successfully completed at UCI. By petition, two of the five may be taken through the UC Education Abroad Program, providing course content is approved by the Humanities Office of Undergraduate Study and the Undergraduate Director of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Testing Information: The Spanish placement exam is required for enrollment in any Spanish courses at UCI. Sign up for the placement exam at
www.testingcenter.uci.edu. Exception: Students who have completed college-level coursework in Spanish at another college or university should contact the Humanities Counseling Office in HIB 143 to request authorization into the appropriate Spanish course.
NOTE: Spanish 2C or equivalent is prerequisite to all courses required for the Spanish major. Spanish 50 and 150 are NOT applicable in the major.
Choose one of the following emphases:
Emphasis in Spanish for Future Teachers
Spanish (3A OR 3H) and (3B OR 3J)
3A or 3H _____
May be taken concurrently and are prerequisite to all upper-division Spanish courses. Students who place beyond Spanish
3A, 3B, 3H, 3J must substitute an upper-division course taught in Spanish.
3B or 3J _____
Spanish 101A - Introduction to Iberian Literature & Culture
1)
Spanish 101B - Introductory Studies in Latin American Literature
1)
Spanish 119 - Textual Analysis and Interpretation
1)
Spanish 107 - Advanced Spanish Grammar
1)
Spanish 113A - Spanish Phonetics
1)
Spanish 113B - Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
1)
Spanish 190
Prerequisite is Spanish 101 or 113A
1)
1)
2)
Three upper-division Spanish courses
3)
Emphasis in Literature & Culture
Spanish (3A OR 3H) and (3B OR 3J)
May be taken concurrently and are prerequisite to all upper-division Spanish courses.
Spanish 101A - Introduction to Iberian Literature & Culture
Emphasis in Cinema: Spain, Latin America & US Latino
3A or 3H _____
3B or 3J _____
1)
Spanish (3A OR 3H) and (3B OR 3J)
May be taken concurrently and are prerequisite to all upper-division Spanish courses.
3A or 3H _____
3B or 3J _____
Spanish 101A - Introduction to Iberian Litera1)
ture & Culture
Spanish 101B - Introductory Studies in Latin
1)
American Literature
Spanish 101B - Introductory Studies in Latin
American Literature
1)
Spanish 119 - Text Analysis & Interpretation 1)
Spanish 119 - Text Analysis & Interpretation
1)
Spanish 107 - Advanced Spanish Grammar
OR 113A OR 113B
1)
Spanish 107 - Advanced Spanish Grammar
OR 113A - Spanish Phonetics
1)
Spanish 190 - Colloquium
Prerequisites: Spanish 107 or 113A
1)
Spanish 190 - Colloquium
Prerequisites: Spanish 107 or 113A
1)
1)
Film & Media Studies 85A
1)
2)
One upper-div film course in any dept
2)
3)
One literature course taught in Spanish
3)
Six upper-division courses in Spanish
Four of the six courses must be in literature
and culture.
4)
5)
6)
Updated April 2016
4)
Three upper-division film courses from
the Spanish & Portuguese Department
5)
6)
This set of requirements was first effective in Fall 2012
Name/SID# _______________________________________________________________ Date __________________________
2016 --2017
University Requirements
Entry Level Writing
Minimum 180 quarter units completed
American History
Minimum 2.0 GPA overall, 2.0 in major courses & 2.0 in upper-division courses in the major
American Institutions
Senior Residency: At least 36 of the final 45 units must be earned at the UC Irvine campus
General Education Requirements
I. Writing
1)
IV. Arts & Humanities
1)
2)
2)
Upper-division writing 3)
3)
II. Science & Technology
V. Quantitative, Symbolic &
Computational Reasoning
1)
2)
including one course each from:
Va. Quantitative Literacy
Vb. Formal Reasoning
3)
III. Social & Behavioral
Sciences
Va)
Vb)
Va or Vb)
1)
VI. Language other than English 1)
2)
VII. Multicultural Studies
1)
3)
VIII. International/Global Issues
1)
OR
IGETC/Reciprocity
Full or Partial Certification:
Upper-division writing 1)
School Requirements
All School Requirements must be taken for letter grades
Humanities Core or Humanities Core Alternative
Humanities Core
LECTURE 1A ______ 1B ______ 1C______
WRITING 1A ______ 1B ______ 1C ______
OR
Humanities Core Alternative:
- 6 quarters or 4 semesters of approved
lower-division work
- No overlap with the major permitted
View the list of approved courses for the
Humanities Core Alternative online at:
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/undergrad/
academics/core.php
Composition
Literature
History
Philosophy
Extra Courses
Language other than English
2C or equivalent (must be completed with a grade of C or better)
2nd year Greek/Latin consists of upper-division coursework:
(100 & 103 & 103) or (100 & 104 & 104) or (100 & 103 & 104)
NOTE: Students are responsible for completing required prerequisites for 2C level language
courses or Latin or Greek 103 or 104.
3/2016
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