The Spanish Program at Florida State University. The Program of Spanish and Portuguese offers BA, MA, and PhD degrees in Spanish, a minor in Portuguese, and a minor in Linguistics. The program's dedicated and diverse faculty are specialists in Iberian, Latin American and Caribbean Literary and Cultural Studies, Hispanic Linguistics,...
The Program of Spanish and Portuguese offers BA, MA, and PhD degrees in Spanish, a minor in Portuguese, and a minor in Linguistics. The program's dedicated and diverse faculty are specialists in Iberian, Latin American and Caribbean Literary and Cultural Studies, Hispanic Linguistics, and Second Language Acquisition.
Other languages offered within the department include, Arabic, Hebrew, and Portuguese. Linguistics courses are also available. Students may also choose a co-major or concentration in Business. These options are designed to provide more flexibility and increase employment opportunities.
The State of Florida enjoys a long standing relationship with the Spanish-speaking world. In 2013, cities throughout the state celebrated the 500th anniversary of the Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon's arrival in Florida, and 2015 marks the 450th anniversary of the founding of St. Augustine (1565) by Spanish explorer Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.
The Program of Spanish and Portuguese offers BA, MA, and PhD degrees in Spanish, a minor in Portuguese, and a minor in Linguistics. The program's dedicated and diverse faculty are specialists in Iberian, Latin American and Caribbean Literary and Cultural Studies, Hispanic Linguistics, and Second Language Acquisition. The links on this page will provide you with more detailed information about our programs, but here are some quick facts:
The State of Florida enjoys a long standing relationship with the Spanish-speaking world. In 2013, cities throughout the state celebrated the 500th anniversary of the Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon's arrival in Florida, and 2015 marks the 450th anniversary of the founding of St. Augustine (1565) by Spanish explorer Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.
Given that Florida was part of the Spanish Empire (1565-1763 and 1784-1821) longer than it has been part of the United States, and due to Florida's proximity to the Caribbean and Latin America, Florida has maintained important cultural, social and economic ties with the Spanish-speaking world for nearly 500 years.
IHS 4943 Medical Interpreter Practicum (9). Supervised internship at a College of Medicine clinical site. Student will work with healthcare providers providing interpreter services between patients and healthcare providers. The class exposes students to the challenges of providing care to a multicultural society through exposure to theory, evidence based practices and self-exploration.
This certificate requires the completion of a minimum of four courses and a required practicum (21 credit hours). The courses are typically available in lecture (on-campus formats) and a few are available online. The required practicum will be completed at a College of Medicine training site in Immokalee, Florida. The practicum will be completed working in coordination with FSU College of Medicine faculty, medical students, and postdoctoral fellows.
Students who currently do not meet the Spanish language requirements may be advised to take SPN 3350, Spanish for Heritage Speakers.
IHS 4943 – Medical Interpreter Practicum (9 credit hrs.) Note: The practicum will be scheduled and coordinated by:
ADV 4411. Multicultural Marketing Communication (3) . This course is geared to train students to become effective communicators and marketers when reaching out to a multicultural society. Marketers, communicators, and service providers interested in being effective in reaching out to culturally diverse groups need to become adept at designing messages and strategies geared to a culturally diverse society.
The Medical Spanish Interpreter Certificate is an interdisciplinary program administered by the FSU College of Medicine . The interdisciplinary program coordinates a series of required and electives courses offered through the FSU College of Medicine, the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics (Division of Spanish) and the School of Communication. The Medical Spanish Interpreter Certificate features a required capstone practicum, placing students in a College of Medicine clinical training site.
BMS 4861. Multicultural Health Care and Health Disparities (3). This course reviews the impact of culture and ethnicity on health, illness, and health care practices. The course exposes students interested in a career in health care to the challenges of providing care to a multicultural society through exposure to theory, evidence-based practices, and self-exploration through service learning with an underserved population.
This is a limited enrollment certificate program. This certificate requires that applicants be experienced Spanish speakers, who are familiar with written and conversational Spanish, including common idioms and nuances of the Spanish language. In most cases the applicants will be native, heritage speakers who have been evaluated by the F.S.U. Spanish department and deemed to have an appropriate level of proficiency.
The Medical Spanish Interpreter Certificate is an interdisciplinary program administered by the FSU School of Communication. The interdisciplinary program coordinates a series of required and electives courses offered through the FSU College of Medicine, the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics (Division of Spanish) and the School of Communication . The Medical Spanish Interpreter Certificate features a required capstone practicum, placing students in a College of Medicine clinical training site.
Program's Courses. Program of Studies. This certificate requires the completion of a minimum of four courses and a required practicum (21 credit hours). The courses are typically available in lecture (on-campus formats) and a few are available online.
In 2000, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services developed the Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS). CLAS mandates language access services for all recipients of federal funds.
The Honors in the Major program in Spanish requires students to maintain a 3.2 grade point average, complete six hours of honors research, and write an honors thesis. For more information please contact the FSU Honor’s Office at 644-1841.
In fact, in the present day states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and FLORIDA, Spanish was spoken for nearly a century before the first English-speaking settlers arrived in Virginia and Massachusetts.
Spanish: The minor requires fifteen semester hours numbered above 2220 including three hours in Spanish literature (SPW). Only one SPT course can count for the minor. Credit extended in meeting the foreign language requirement for graduation may not be used in satisfying the minor.
Spanish is the official language of 21 countries, and there are more than 400 million native speakers of Spanish, more than any other language in the world except for Mandarin Chinese. Spanish has never been a “foreign language” in the United States.
The United States has the second largest Spanish-speaking population in the world (after Mexico and ahead of Spain, Colombia, and Argentina).
Credit extended in meeting the foreign language requirement may not be used in satisfying the minor. Linguistics: Linguistics is the study of the nature of language. There are linguistic applications in many disciplines.
The Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics offers a program in honors in the major to encourage talented seniors to undertake independent and original research as part of the undergraduate experience. For requirements and other information, see the “University Honors Office and Honor Societies” chapter of this General Bulletin.
Requirements for a Major in Modern Languages and Linguistics. Note: A grade of “C–” or better must be earned in each course applied toward any major or minor degree earned in modern languages and linguistics. A grade of “C–” or better is required for students to advance to subsequent language levels.
Students should have a minimum of six semester hours of skills courses (e.g., GER 3310, GER 3400) and six semester hours of literature, film, and culture classes (e.g., GER 3440, GER 3500, GER 3930). A minimum of nine semester hours must be taken at the 4000 level.
Bachelor of Arts (BA) degrees are offered in East Asian Languages and Cultures (Chinese and Japanese), French, German, Italian, Middle Eastern Studies, Russian, and Spanish. All major programs, except for languages with a concentration in business and Middle Eastern Studies will also require a minor degree.
The minor requires twelve semester hours from Arabic language courses numbered above ARA 1121 . No course taken for the minor may be used for any University language requirement. A list of approved courses may be obtained from the departmental undergraduate office, 364 DIF. A minimum grade of “C” must be earned for all courses taken for the minor (no S/U grades will apply). Directed Individual Study (DIS) hours are not applicable to the minor without prior approval from the Arabic advisor.
Note: FRT courses do not count toward the major unless the student reads the works in French, writes all assignments in French, and can provide a letter from the instructor granting him/her permission to take the course for major credit.
The Concentration in Business requires a minimum of 21 hours of language above the 2220 level in French, German, Italian, Russian, or Spanish; 18 hours of language above the 2220 level are required in Chinese or Japanese. The student must also complete 27 hours in designated business courses. No minor is required.
Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish majors are required to complete 12-15 hours in an approved minor (more if required by minor department). Grades of C minus or higher required.
A co-major is offered in Chinese and Japanese, requiring 15 hours of both Chinese and Japanese language above the 2220-level, and 12 hours in Chinese and/or Japanese literature and culture. Of the combined 30 hours of Chinese and Japanese language courses, at least 3 hours must be taken at the 4000-level in one language and 6 hours taken at the 4000-level in the other. No minor is required.
The department offers French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish in combination with each other.
This course is designed to present structures of the Spanish language and vocabulary to prepare graduate students majoring in other disciplines to read journals, books, and monographs written in Spanish useful to the student’s research, and to take the Graduate Reading Knowledge Exam to fulfill the language requirement of other programs. For this class I created a new syllabus, and designed a class to give students, with all different levels of Spanish, the tools to pass the language test. (SPN 5060: Spring 2019)
Latinx Studies: Reading and Writing the Past. This course considers how Latinx writers and multimedia artists engage, interrogate, and recreate the past to question narratives of history and nation. The course engages various historical periods and media, including novels, comic books, and codices. (SPW4930)
While the course is designed to expose students to a broad range of representative authors and texts, it also seeks to situate those texts in both specific histories and broader theoretical frameworks. Roughly half of the semester will focus on “canonical” texts. The other half of the semester will be dedicated to layering, critiquing and responding to those texts through readings of less recognized voices. (SPW 5385)
Beginning with the premise, as outlined by Michel Foucault in The Order of Things, that it is possible to trace certain important epistemological shifts in the Western world from the end of the Middle Ages to our own time, this course aims to heighten our awareness of how today the practice of professional cultural studies is systematically interpellated through the discourses specific to our own systems of knowledge and communication. Taking medieval and early modern Iberia, as well as its colonies, as a case study, our examinations of a selection of texts from this geographic and temporal space will revolve around the usefulness, or lack thereof, of some of the contemporary West’s most prominent social constructions of subject formation, such as race, class, gender, and nationhood. (SPW5586)
Exploring comparative methodologies through Caribbean objects of analysis from Anglophone, Francophone, and Hispanophone traditions, this course shifts theoretical analytic each time it is offered: Fall 2015 on performance studies, Fall 2017 on theories of decolonization; Fall 2019 on speculative fictions and theories. Students who can read texts in the original language are expected to do so. All texts are available in English translation. (Cross-listed FRW 6938 /SPW 6934 / FOL 5934-01)