My daughter is fluent in English/Spanish and wants to expand into other languages. We are looking for a US based liberal arts college or university that teaches in Spanish or other foreign language for most of the courses. Any thoughts? Thank you,
I'm a bit confused. Does she want to study in Spanish or does she want to study another language? Some US universities have study abroad options where she can go live in another country for a semester or a year. What other languages does she know?
Study in Spanish, or study where another language is the language of instruction. I'm aware of the abroad programs and she has participated in these as high school student. I'm specifically looking for a US school. Thank you.
Teaches what? What does she propose to major in? There are a handful of mainland US schools that offer classroom based programs taught in Spanish, I guess, but it's hard for me to think of any taught by DL. My suggestion is to poke around the Puerto Rican colleges and universities and see what DL they offer. Most of the PR schools teach primarily or entirely in Spanish, and the accredited ones are all accredited by American accreditors.
Bill, Thank you, but I should have been clearer. I'm looking for a B&M school. Can you provide a couple specific schools that offer classroom based programs taught in Spanish. She intends to major in languages and writing. I have looked at the PR schools, a friend is from Puerto Rico and he has offered several programs based upon his own college experiences in PR. I prefer her to stay in the US at this point.
How about this program at CSUDH http://cah.csudh.edu/modernlanguage/ There are many latino/latina students at CSUDH and Southern California has a large spanish speaking population. There is also this one at WNMU http://www.wnmu.edu/academic/hum/humanities.htm I doubt if you will find many classes, other than language classes, taught in Spanish at a US university.
No, sorry. I thought that I probably could, thinking of the Hispanic-oriented Boricua, National Hispanic and the newly accredited Interamerican. But I just looked at their websites and it appears that they all teach in English. There are several U. of Texas (U.T. Panamerican) and Texas A&M branches (Texas A&M International) that have overwhelmingly Mexican-American student bodies and where Spanish is probably heard as often as English, but their language of instruction is English too. U. of Texas El Paso offers a unique MFA in Spanish-language creative writing, I believe, but that's not what you are looking for. I still think that Puerto Rico might be your best bet. It's a US territory (or commonwealth or whatever they call it) and its residents are US citizens, so it's not entirely foreign. It actually looks like kind of an attractive Caribbean proposition for somebody who wants full immersion in Hispanic culture while continuing to be sheltered by the American Constitution and a reasonably reliable US-style local legal system. If she's going to major in Spanish, I believe that most American colleges conduct their upper division major classes in that language. The writing classes and the Spanish and Latin-American literature classes will probably be taught in Spanish, with Spanish class discussions.
She may want to look into the UNAM extension program in Los Angeles. UNAM is very well respected. Here is something I posted back in 1/09. UNAM - LA Extension center -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi, I have been looking at this for a few days now. They offer a Spanish language Certificate that might come in handy. I looks like their prices are low, although I don't really understand their price structure. Am I dense? Am I missing something? I am State Certified in the Spanish Language, but this might look good on my resume because it will be granted from UNAM, a well regarded Uni. Here is the link: http://www.losangeles.unam.mx/celaing.html Here is the link to the fees page: http://www.losangeles.unam.mx/infoing.html I hope that helps. Abner
Not for your daughter, I think, but maybe of interest to others who search their way here: the Edinburgh Business School online MBA (which does not require any undergraduate work or degrees) can be done 100% in Spanish (or Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew), including the exams. I'm not aware of any other school that has made such a language outreach.