Spanish for Professionals (GC)

Catalog Year 2025-2026

The graduate certificate prepares current K-12 teachers or practicing professionals with a competency-based Spanish that develops their writing and oral competencies in Spanish and their multicultural literacy in ways suitable for teaching in Higher Education or working at an advanced, professional level in Spanish in business, government, health fields, education or other professional areas.

Program Requirements

Restricted Electives

Oral Proficiency - Choose 3 Credit(s).

Development of oral reasoning and presentation skills for specific cultural audiences. Students read and analyze documents from a variety of viewpoints to prepare oral reasoning demonstrations on software for workshop distribution and evaluation.

Prerequisites:: none

This course introduces students to the theory and practice of interpretation using Spanish.

Prerequisites:: none

Development of oral and written productive skills for professional situations in a variety of contexts using digital media.

Prerequisites:: none

Writing Proficiency - Choose 3 Credit(s).

Experience in designing, writing. and critiquing writing for a variety of professional areas to meet expectations for the use of Spanish in a professional setting. Course explores cultural and linguistic variance in Spanish-speaking environments, including the US.

Prerequisites:: none

Introduction to theory and practice of of translation to and from Spanish. Readings, analysis, translation, peer review, preparation of documents for specific professional and cultural environment.

Prerequisites:: none

The art and practice of editing documents in Spanish for electronic publication on paper or for the internet. Advanced grammar, writing and editing support for native, heritage and second language speakers of Spanish.

Prerequisites:: none