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2025-2026 Academic Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Academic Catalog

Spanish, B.A. (Secondary Teacher Certification)


This degree requires 122 credit hours, including 43 hours of Core coursework.

Degree Requirements

All candidates must meet the following:

  1. Fulfill all university requirements for a bachelor’s degree, as outlined in the Bachelor’s Degree Requirements  section of this catalog.
  2. Complete Core Curriculum  Requirements for students entering college in Fall 1999 or later.
  3. Satisfy Bachelor of Arts degree requirements:
    • Lower Division: 3 semester hours of speech and fulfillment of the computer literacy/proficiency requirement (see note below).
    • Foreign Language: 6 semester hours at the sophomore level in one foreign language.
  4. Complete all required courses for the degree plan (outlined below).

Note: Students who are core complete but did not take speech and computer literacy/proficiency as part of their core curriculum will be required to complete these courses to meet degree requirements.

Core Curriculum Requirement - 43 Semester Hours


  • Core 010 Communication - 6 hours
  • Core 020 Mathematics - 3 hours
  • Core 030 Life and Physical Science - 7 hours (including 1 Lab)
  • Core 040 Language, Philosophy and Culture - 3 hours
  • Core 050 Creative Arts - 3 hours
  • Core 060 American History - 6 hours
  • Core 070 Government/Political Science - 6 hours
  • Core 080 Social and Behavioral Sciences - 3 hours
  • Core 090 Component Area Option: Speech - 3 hours
  • Core 090 Component Area Option: Computer Literacy - 3 hours

Plan Program Requirements


General Program Requirements - 12 Semester Hours


Upper Division Spanish Electives - 12 Semester Hours


Students must take 12 s.h. of Upper Division Spanish electives- based on advisement.

  • SPAN UD
  • SPAN UD
  • SPAN UD
  • SPAN UD

LD/UD Free Electives


Additional lower- or upper-division electives as needed to meet the 120 semester hour degree requirement, including at least 36 upper-division semester hours.

Total Required Hours - 122 Semester Hours