Bachelor of Science - Spanish - Secondary Education 7-12
About Bachelor of Science - Spanish - Secondary Education 7-12
Foreign language skills are essential to some of today’s promising global fields, including tourism, translation, language interpretation, and international relations. Opportunities exist in education, business, government, social services, and more. Students at Southern Connecticut State University can major or minor in Spanish, French, Italian, or German and are encouraged to enhance their coursework by studying abroad.
The Bachelor of Science in Spanish with a concentration in Teacher Certification is designed for students interested in developing linguistic fluency and high levels of cultural proficiency in Spanish who want to become teachers of the language at the middle and/or high school level. All Spanish classes develop their ability to speak, read, write, and comprehend Spanish, while increasing their understanding of Spanish film, literature, history, geography, and culture. Concurrently, they will fulfill the courses associated with earning certification through the College of Education, and will do one semester of student teaching.
Students who graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Spanish will be able to reach the Advanced Low level on the ACTFL proficiency scale. Upon graduation, they will be able to do the following:
- participate in most informal and some formal conversations on topics related to school, home, and leisure activities and on some topics related to employment, current events, and matters of public and community interest (communicative competence)
- understand short conventional narrative and descriptive texts with a clear underlying structure, understanding the main facts and some supporting details (listening ability)
- understand the main ideas and some supporting details of conventional narrative and descriptive texts with a clear underlying structure and high-frequency vocabulary and structures (reading ability)
- speak by combining and linking sentences into connected discourse of paragraph length, handling appropriately the essential linguistic challenges presented by a complication or an unexpected turn of events (speaking ability)
- complete written work in the target language in basic work/academic scenarios, narrating and describing in major time frames with some control, and composing simple summaries on familiar topics (writing ability)
- explain some diversity among cultural products (such as literature works, films, music and the arts) and practices and how it relates to cultural perspectives (intercultural competence)
- use communicative strategies such as rephrasing and circumlocution (strategic ability)
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