Spanish Minor
Cottey offers a minor in Spanish.
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Program Description
The Spanish program at Cottey College is designed to help students develop language skills and a cultural appreciation and understanding of the Hispanic world. This is achieved through wide-ranging studies of cultural histories and current societies.
Through the minor in Spanish, and a variety of other Spanish courses, Cottey provides students with the knowledge to better understand their own culture and language, respect cultural diversity, gain a capacity for critical thinking, and grow as global citizens who are ready to face the challenges a multilingual society offers.
Signature Courses
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SPA 320 Business Spanish
Serves as an introduction to the business world in Latin American countries and the interaction between U.S. and Latin American companies and professionals. Readings, journal articles, essays, and interviews with business professionals open students to the inner workings of small businesses and large corporations alike.
Students will learn language relevant to business environments, as well as gaining insight on contemporary business-related culture and social attitudes that reflect the commercial relations between the Spanish speaking countries and the United States.
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SPA 330 The Chicano Experience
This course covers post-1960’s Chicano literature to the present. The course will emphasize major themes such as language, history, culture, identity, and religion as related to the Chicano experience and literary heritage.
Authors read in class include Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castilllo, Ruben Martinez, Ignacio Padilla, and Gloria Anzaldua, among others. Emphasis varies.
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SPA/WGS 345 Afro-Latina Women Writers
This class analyzes the literary production of Afro-Latina women writers. It reviews different literary periods, the images those periods created, and how oppression has marginalized the lives of this group.
By paying particular attention to race, gender, sexuality, and social issues in different regional contexts, the class will consider how Latin American women authors of African descent critically approach national discourses.
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SPA/WGS 370 Contemporary Latin American/Spanish Women Writers
This course explores the narrative of contemporary Latin American/Spanish women writers such as Griselda Gambaro, Rosario Ferre, Isabel Allende, Carmen Laforet, Rosa Chacel, Carmen Martin Gaite, and others.
Students will examine the articulation of gender, race, and class relations in different literary genres, and issues related to the role of women.
Career Outcomes
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Career Outcomes
- Community Liaison
- Volunteer Program Coordinator
- Hotel Night Auditor
- Customer Support Services
- Patient Care Associate
- Medical Spanish Interpreter/ Translator
- Legal Spanish Interpreter/ Translator
Why Cottey’s Spanish program is unique.
The Spanish program opens a world of literature, art, history and cultural studies. Due to small class sizes, students receive individualized instruction. Personal instruction enhances their intellectual experience of Spanish language learning, and it makes the learning experience more effective. Many students majoring in other fields combine a Spanish minor or other Spanish courses to expand their professional and intellectual horizons.
Because Spanish is the fourth most spoken language in the world and, it is logical that a minor in Spanish will help students advance professionally.
