Program Requirements for the LAS Major in Spanish-Economics

The 120 semester hours required for completing the program are distributed as follows:

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

HOURS

English 160, 161

6

Humanities

9

Social Sciences

9

Natural Sciences

10

Math 160 or 165 (Finite Mathematics for Business Students or Business Calculus) ^a

5

SPANISH REQUIREMENTS

HOURS

Elementary and Intermediate Spanish (four semesters at the university level or equivalent) ^b

0-16

Span 200 ^c (Conversational Spanish)

3

Span 201 (Spanish Composition)

3

Span 230 (Civilization and Culture of Spain)

3

Span 231 (Civilization and Culture of Spanish America)

3

Span 220 (Spanish for Business and Law)

3

Span 260 (Meso-American Literature and Culture)

3

Span 261 (South-American Literature and Culture)

3

Span 303 (Advanced Spanish Composition)

3

Spanish 305 (Advanced Spanish Grammar)

3

Span 320 (Advanced Business Spanish)

3

ECONOMICS REQUIREMENTS

HOURS

Econ 120 (Principles of Microeconomics)

3

Econ 121 (Principles of Macroeconomics)

3

Econ 220 (Microeconomics: Theory and Applications)

3

Econ 221 (Macroeconomics in the World Economy: Theory and Applications)

3

Four elective courses in Economics at the 200, 300, or 400 level (not more than one at the 200 level).
At least one must be chosen from the following list of International/Economic Development courses:

Econ 334 (Economic Development)
Econ 211 (Selected Topics in Economics Taught in Spanish)
Econ 327 (Comparative Economic Systems)
Econ 333 (International Economics)

12

WRITING-IN-THE-DISCIPLINES REQUIREMENT

HOURS

Either Econ 395 (Research and Writing in Economics) or
Span 370 (Expository Writing on Hispanic Topics)

0-1

FREE ELECTIVES ^d

10-27

^a This course fulfills both the quantitative reasoning requirement and the
remaining 5 hrs of the natural sciences requirement.

^b Placement test in Spanish required of all students. The elementary and
intermediate Spanish courses are either 100 or both 101 and 102; 103; and
either 105 or 107. Bilingual students take 112, 113, and 114.

^c Native Spanish speakers substitute other 200- or 300-level Spanish courses

^d Free elective courses must bring the total number of hours to at least 120



NOTE: Span 231, Span 260, Span 261, Econ 210 and Econ 334 are all included in the list of approved courses in cultural diversity.