Spanish

The undergraduate Certificate in Spanish jointly offered by the Trent Centre for Language and Linguistics provides students with an opportunity to improve their Spanish language skills and to receive recognition for their proficiency level for the purposes of career advancement or further study.

This program guarantees that students have made successful progress in the language and certifies an advanced intermediate level of Spanish, specifically Level B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The certificate may be used to bridge into undergraduate degree programs, for professional upgrading, or be complementary to degree studies.

Students who have fulfilled the requirements for a degree may graduate with a Spanish Certificate if they have successfully completed the following 2.5 credits:

1.0 SPAN credits at the 1000 level consisting of:

• SPAN 1001H: Introduction to Spanish I
• SPAN 1002H : Introduction to Spanish II

Or

• Or SPAN 1000Y: Introduction to Spanish

1.0 SPAN credits at the 2000 level consisting of:

• SPAN 2001H: Intermediate Spanish I
• SPAN 2002H: Intermediate Spanish II

Or

• SPAN 2000Y: Intermediate Spanish

0.5 LING credits from:

• LING 1001H: Sounds, Words, and Sentences: Concepts in Linguistics
• LING 3060H: Second Language Acquisition: Theory, Methods, and Practice