All Spanish Majors are required to take 180 units as follows:

Major Courses	68
Minor and Upper-Division SPANISH Courses   GE	32   64
Free Electives	16

Learn more about the BA Spanish 2022-2026 Curriculum. 

Click here to find the BA Spanish 2022-2026 flowchart. 

Please see the Spanish B.A. Faculty Advisor, Dr. Silvia Marijuan (smarijua@calpoly.edu)

For guidelines and best practices on conducting senior projects, please check with your Senior Project Advisor.

Instructions for submitting your senior project to the Digital Commons at the Kennedy Library can be found here. 

Spanish Majors

As an admitted Spanish major, you will be scheduled into a Spanish course in your fall quarter.  You will need to take the Spanish Placement Test during SLO Days unless you have Advanced Placement credit.  Please review the following information very carefully so that you are placed into the appropriate Spanish course based on your previous experience.

If you passed the AP Spanish Language exam with a score of 3, please select SPAN 202.  If you earned a score of 4, please select SPAN 203.  If you earned a score of 5, please select SPAN 207 or SPAN 233.

If you passed the AP Spanish Literature exam with a score of 3, please select SPAN 203.  If you earned a score of 4, please select SPAN 207 or SPAN 233.  If you earned a score of 5, please select SPAN 207.

If you did not take any AP Spanish, please select a course based on the following guidelines:

If you took 4 years of high school Spanish, please select SPAN 202. 

If you took 3 years of high school Spanish, please select SPAN 201. 

If you took 2 years of high school Spanish, please select SPAN 103. 

If you took 1 year of high school Spanish, please select SPAN 102. 

For all others, please select SPAN 101.