BA Mission Statement

Bachelor of Arts in Spanish
Mission Statement

Mission: The mission of the Bachelor of Arts in Spanish is to build, support, and enhance a teaching and learning community through instruction, scholarship, service, and community outreach in the area of Spanish language, literatures and cultures.

Program Goals

Goals & Objectives: Guided by the above, we aim at enabling our students to achieve the following five goals at graduation:

1) Development of professional and marketable mastery of communicative skills in Spanish;

2) Appropriation of linguistic skills, transferable selectively to a wide range of practical options, including – but not limited to – mass media, higher education, travel/leisure enterprises, the performing arts, teaching, diplomacy, law enforcement, military intelligence, the space program, business/marketing, international banking, politics, the Peace Corps;

3) Acquisition of knowledge of, and sensitivity about, one or more literary and cultural heritages/traditions of Spanish-speaking communities;

4) Internalization of the principle of diversity as one of the cornerstones of personal, national and international relationships, and promotion of its inherent values in the world at large;

5) Achievement of a high degree of information literacy, by accessing national and international sources, and judicious evaluation of the same for form, value and content.