Spanish Minor?

wahoomb
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:02:13 +0000

I, for one, am glad that the minor is gone. The Spanish Dept at UVA is one of the best in the country and all the upper-level classes are extremely popular (Shaw’s Borges or Latin American Lit classes) and 2nd or 3rd year Echols or those who had enough credits would fill them up while the majors would be left out. Those who “minor” in Spanish were usually comm majors who wanted to take Business Spanish to supplement their curriculum and by and large weren’t the hardest workers in class. If someone wants to improve their Spanish, great, but they should just take the class and learn, not worry about some minor that no one (in terms of grad school or employers) is going to care about.

PS: The Spanish House is open to anyone and no preference is given to Spanish majors, I lived there my last two years and we had kids from literally every undergrad school.