College of Arts and Sciences
Departments
Modern Languages, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics
Spanish
Graduate Certificate in Spanish (Online)
This program will equip K-12 Spanish teachers and dual-credit instructors with pedagogical training in Spanish to enable them to teach the target language more effectively. Each course in the certificate will emphasize communication in Spanish to help students to improve and refine their own mastery of Spanish. Students completing the certificate will:
· Enhance their proficiency with the Spanish language and their confidence to conduct classes in the target language.
· Increase their expertise in areas of Hispanic culture, literature and linguistics.
· Expand their teaching techniques and approaches in light of current practices informed by research. Students earning the IU Online Graduate Certificate in Spanish will:
2. Enhance intercultural competence to promote student engagement and understanding of the Hispanic world.
3. Use effective pedagogical strategies to serve a variety of learning populations including heritage speakers, adult students, etc.
4. Promote an understanding of Spanish as a world language as well as the linguistic and cultural diversity of Spanish in the U.S.
5. Incorporate insights gleaned from current research on second language acquisition and scholarship on effective foreign language instruction to improve student learning.
6. Design structured input and output activities by applying theory to classroom activities, such as communicative teaching, oral and grammar testing, learning and teaching grammar, listening comprehension, and writing.
Degree Requirements
To earn the Graduate Certificate in Spanish students will complete 18 credits graduate
- SPAN-T 510 Second Language Acquisition for Spanish
- SPAN-T 520 Spanish Writing and Grammar
- SPAN-T 530 Spanish through Cultural Expressions
- SPAN-T 540 Spanish Phonetics
- SPAN-T 550 Hispanic Studies (variable topics)
- SPAN-T 560 Hispanic Sociolinguistics