Online Graduate Certificate in Spanish

Are you looking to improve your mastery of the Spanish language? A graduate certificate from IU Kokomo through IU Online offers advanced-level instruction in the Spanish language, as well as Hispanic culture, literature, and linguistics.

As a student in this program, you’ll enhance your language proficiency and teaching techniques; study current research on effective pedagogical strategies and foreign language instruction; and enhance your intercultural competence in order to promote student engagement with the Hispanic world.

Your IU Online Graduate Certificate in Spanish prepares you for such careers as:

Spanish teacher or instructor
Linguist, bilingual consultant, or translator
Foreign correspondent
Technical writer
Proofreader/editor

This 100 percent online program is taught by IU Bloomington, IU East, IUPUI, IU Kokomo, IU Northwest, IU South Bend, and IU Southeast. This consortial model allows you to take coursework from several campuses and learn from a wide range of faculty.

HLC Standards Information

The Graduate Certificate in Spanish is ideal for those who want to teach dual-credit courses and who need to meet Higher Learning Commission dual-credit qualification standards. These standards require teachers wanting to teach dual-credit courses to hold either a master's degree in their area of instruction or a master's degree in another discipline (such as education), plus at least 18 credit hours of discipline-specific graduate coursework.

If you hold a master's degree in another discipline, you can meet HLC standards by completing the 18-credit hour Graduate Certificate in Spanish.

Degree Requirements

To earn a Graduate Certificate in Spanish, you must complete 18 credit hours.

Requirements are broken down as follows:

Core courses (18 credit hours)

Admissions

To be accepted to this program, you must have:

Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited institution
3.0 minimum undergraduate GPA
Spanish instructors affiliated with IU’s Advanced College Project will be admitted to the program on the basis of ACP’s admission process

To apply to this program, complete an online application that includes:

Official transcripts from each undergraduate institution
250-word personal statement explaining background and reasons for entering the program
Evidence of significant study in Spanish (at least 12 credit hours at the 300/400 level, with a minimum 2.5 GPA)

Application Deadlines

Fall semester: Aug 1
Spring semester: Jan 1
Summer 1 semester: May 1
Summer 2 semester: Jun 15

Courses

SPAN-T 510 Second Language Acquisition for Spanish Instruction 3 Credits
SPAN-T 520 Spanish Writing and Grammar 3 Credits
SPAN-T 530 Spanish through Cultural Expressions 3 Credits
SPAN-T 540 Spanish Phonetics 3 Credits
SPAN-T 550 Topics in Hispanic Studies 3 Credits
SPAN-T 560 Hispanic Sociolinguistics 3 Credits

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Online Graduate Certificate in Spanish