World Language - Spanish

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Complete the world language requirement of a bachelor’s degree program or supplement your career preparation with GCC’s Spanish certificate program.

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Norma Quesada
(413) 775-1282
quesada@gcc.mass.edu

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GCC’s Spanish curriculum will give you the knowledge and skills in language and culture necessary to attain functional proficiency in spoken and written Spanish. The certificate will also fulfill the customary university four-semester language requirement. You’ll take English composition courses, elementary and intermediate Spanish, which are taught primarily in Spanish, and you’ll have the option to take Spanish for Health Professionals, Law Enforcement or Emergency Responders as well. If your goal is to attain the second level of the Global Seal of Biliteracy (Advanced Low on the ACTFL scale), you can also take our two Spanish film and language courses.

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Certificates are typically completed in one (1) year and designed for immediate workforce entry

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If you plan to transfer to a bachelor’s degree program, the Spanish certificate will give you an excellent base for a Spanish major or minor and will fulfill the language requirement of most liberal arts programs. Consider completing formal proficiency testing (Oral Proficiency Interview, OPI or OPI-C) to certify your level of proficiency on the ACTFL scale once you finish the program.

Appreciate diverse cultural and individual perspectives
- Compare students’ own and other cultures, thus understanding both better.
- Demonstrate basic sociolinguistic competence.
- Use language appropriate to social and cultural context.
Solve problems collaboratively
- Negotiate meaning and understanding collaboratively to solve communication problems and address conflict and misunderstandings.
- Use target language in class, avoiding the use of English.
Communicate in various modes and media
- Communicate through interpersonal, presentational and interpretive modes:
  - Interpersonal: listening and speaking; reading and writing (one-way communication)
  - Presentational: writing or speaking (two-way communication)
  - Interpretive: listening, reading or viewing (wo-way communication)
Locate, evaluate and use various sources of information
- Locate, evaluate and use various sources of information appropriately, including authentic documents (texts created by and for native speakers).
Think creatively and critically
- Make connections in language; create with language to express one’s own thoughts and opinions.
- Use both literal and figurative communication and a range of language from the everyday to the formal appropriate to the context, including gestural language.
- Discover consequences of language use for social and cultural contexts.
Apply, integrate, and synthesize learning
- Build and expand the repertoire of communication strategies – various modes and media.
- Make appropriate use of imaginative, concrete and/or abstract language for social and cultural contexts.
- Apply nuance, refinement, sensitivity and awareness at increasing levels of language sophistication.
- Explore and apply a range of effective language learning strategies.