Go beyond mastering the language
Students in the graduate certificate in Spanish program will develop their verbal and written abilities in Spanish while engaging with the vibrant intellectual and cultural history of Latin America, Spain and the United States. You will also learn about Hispanic linguistics and language pedagogy. This combined learning will prepare you for a variety of professional fields"—including teaching college-level Spanish in high schools"—while helping you to become a compassionate global citizen. We offer a flexible program with online, hybrid, and in-person course formats.
Courses are designed to provide flexibility to meet the needs of modern students. The graduate certificate is necessary for educators who seek a credential for teaching college Spanish in Minnesota high schools.
How you will learn
Degree Requirements (18 Credits):
Students may not repeat a cross-listed course for graduate credit if the class has already been taken for undergraduate credit at St. Thomas.
Courses offered include:
Courses offered include:
Courses offered include:
Degree Requirements (18 Credits):
Students may not repeat a cross-listed course for graduate credit if the class has already been taken for undergraduate credit at St. Thomas.
Courses offered include:
Courses offered include:
Courses offered include:
In the last decade, Latin America has seen a massive mobilization of new forms of protest against femicide and gendered violence and in favor of reproductive rights. From the protests demanding justice for the women of Ciudad Juárez (México) to the viral interventions of Chile’s Las Tesis and the massive #NiUnaMenos movement in Chile, these actions invite us to consider contemporary Latin American culture from a gender perspective. What cultural meaning do these popular movements convey?
In this class, we will explore how protests and social movements around the theme of gender are changing identity paradigms, contributing to democracy, and building more inclusive communities.
Summer Session II: Fully Online Course
3 Credits
Instructor: Paola Ehrmantraut
Photo credit: Emergente
Dr. Kroll teaches courses in Spanish language, grammar and composition, Latin American cultures and civilization, Hispanic literature, and Hispanic and world cinema. She has led multiple study abroad courses to both Cuernavaca and Mérida, Mexico, which gels well with her research interest in contemporary Mexican literature and film.
Dr. Donny A. Vigil has taught Spanish since 1999. His areas of interest include Hispanic language and linguistics: phonetics, phonology and dialectology of Spanish and Portuguese, sociolinguistics, history of the Spanish language, language contact, language variation and change, New Mexico Spanish, pragmatics, discourse analysis and translation.
Professor Rey-Montejo's research interests focus on issues of race, gender, identity, and social inequality in twentieth and twenty-first century Latin-America. She has published and presented on numerous international conferences on topics related to Hispanic Caribbean narrative, Caribbean Diaspora in the U.S, and Afro-Latino studies. Her current research projects are closely related to Hispanic Caribbean cultural representations in literature, film, music and art.