Academic Catalog

Spanish Language (AA)

Department: Languages and Linguistics

Program Contact: Travis Schiffman

Phone: (435) 283-7442

Department Webpage: https://www.snow.edu/academics/humanities/language/index.html

Advising Information

Program Description

The Foreign Language program at Snow College offers valuable language skills to majors and non-majors alike. Learning a second language is helpful in a wide variety of fields and is particularly beneficial for students interested in business, history, English, or international relations. Students who like food and travel, talking to people from other countries, and visiting historical sites and museums find their experience is enriched by an understanding of other languages. 

Program Outcomes

A student who completes an associate degree in Spanish will be able to do the following.

  • Interpretive Communication (Based on ACTFL Performance Indicators for Intermediate High): Students can follow the main ideas and events in paragraph-length texts or conversations in Spanish across various time frames.
  • Presentational Communication (Based on ACTFL Performance Indicators for Intermediate High): Students can give detailed presentations and state their viewpoints on familiar or researched topics and provide reasons to support them using a few short paragraphs in Spanish across various time frames.
  • Interpersonal Communication (Based on ACTFL Performance Indicators for Intermediate High): Students can interact with others in Spanish to meet their needs in a variety of situations, sometimes involving a complication, using connected sentences that may combine to form paragraphs and asking a variety of questions, often across various time frames.
  • Cultural Competence: Students can make comparisons between the practices and products of their own and other cultures to help them explain values from other perspectives.