2019-2020 BSC Catalog
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ACADEMIC PROGRAMS<br />
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Southern College are designed to help students attain written and oral proficiency.<br />
Furthermore, in studying a foreign language, students develop an appreciation of<br />
another culture and in doing so gain new insights into their own culture as well.<br />
Students are encouraged to complement their coursework in a foreign language with<br />
various on- and off-campus experiences: viewing foreign language films, performing<br />
internships or volunteer activities using the target language, taking part in a servicelearning<br />
project or Exploration term study-travel project in a country where their target<br />
language is spoken, or participating in an approved study abroad program.<br />
Spanish for the workplace majors are strongly advised to adopt an appropriate cognate<br />
program, either as a minor or as a double major. Proficiency in Spanish is particularly<br />
useful for students planning careers in teaching (university, secondary, and bilingual),<br />
international business, healthcare, social work, law, foreign service, and research and<br />
technology. In addition, the rapidly growing Hispanic population in many regions of<br />
this country underscores the advantages of the ability to communicate with speakers of<br />
Spanish and to understand their culture.<br />
Students may earn credit in Spanish at Birmingham-Southern College through the<br />
Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate programs. A score of four or more<br />
on the grammar or five on the literature AP examination or a score of six on the IB<br />
examination may be used towards graduation requirements, but not towards Explorations<br />
curriculum requirements. See the “Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate”<br />
section of this catalog for a full description of the policy.<br />
Heritage speakers of Spanish (students whose first language is Spanish or who<br />
speak Spanish at home) must take a diagnostic speaking proficiency exam to determine<br />
the appropriate courses in order to fulfill requirements for the major or minor in Spanish<br />
for the workplace or the minor in Spanish.<br />
Upon completion of the Spanish for the workplace major, students will be able to<br />
• function successfully in Spanish in a variety of real-life situations including the<br />
workplace<br />
• make polished formal and informal presentations on a variety of topics<br />
• understand the gist as well as several discrete details of discourse as spoken by<br />
native speakers of Spanish at native speed<br />
• write in Spanish with a high degree of grammatical correctness and appropriate<br />
choices of vocabulary and idiomatic expressions<br />
• converse in Spanish in connected discourse in a variety of time frames<br />
Major Requirements<br />
The following courses are required (10 units):<br />
SN 270*<br />
SN 280<br />
SN 300*<br />
Birmingham-Southern College <strong>Catalog</strong> <strong>2019</strong>-<strong>2020</strong>