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Modern Languages at UL Lafayette
H I S P A N I C S T U D I E S
About the Field
Spanish is a world language, spoken widely
throughout the Americas as well as in Spain and its former colonies in
Africa and the Philippines. The Hispanic world has long been a major
contributor to international culture and intellectual life. The Spanish
major at UL Lafayette offers a broad-based education in the humanities,
including the consideration of current debates on literacy,
decolonization, and globalization, as well as a strong background in
the Spanish language, the literatures of the Spanish speaking world,
and Hispanic linguistics. Students majoring and minoring in Spanish,
or, as the field is called more formally, Hispanic Studies, are not
simply language majors and minors. Rather, they are liberal arts
students concentrating on Spanish and Latin American literary, cultural
and linguistic studies with language skills as a base.
Hispanic Studies at UL Lafayette
The University of
Louisiana at Lafayette offers an undergraduate major and minor in
Spanish, and the Hispanic Studies faculty participate actively in the
interdisciplinary minor in Latin American Studies offered through the College of Liberal Arts. The Department of Modern Languages offers a joint M.A. in Spanish and French.
Prominent
scholars in Hispanic and Latin American Studies from other United
States and foreign universities speak at UL Lafayette at least once a
semester, and we have strong library holdings in film. There is an active
student-run Spanish Club, a chapter of the national Spanish honor
society Sigma Delta Pi,
an exchange program with the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara
(Mexico), and a study abroad agreement with the Universidad de
Cantabria (Spain). We strongly encourage majors and minors to take
advantage of these study abroad programs. Credit is transferable and
financial aid applies.
Our language courses aim to teach students to communicate and
to be literate in Spanish, as well as to appreciate and function in
Hispanic cultural contexts. The basic language courses (100 and 200
level) are followed by advanced language and analysis skills courses in
Hispanic literature, culture, and linguistics (300 and 400 level) that
prepare students for advanced coursework in specific areas (400G and
500 levels). Our courses in literature emphasize historical and
cultural contexts as well as formal textual analysis, and we offer
upper level courses in popular culture, media, and translation as well
as language and literature.
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