Certificate in Spanish for Business Management & Public Administration

Certificates may be earned by regularly matriculated or extended learning students and denote successful completion of a prescribed program of study designed to:

  1. impart specified professional/vocational/career competencies; or
  2. produce mastery of the content of a sub-field of an academic major (discipline); or
  3. provide exposure to the range of materials in a traditional or emerging interdisciplinary field.

Certain certificate programs contain 6000-level courses as requirements and/or electives. These 6000-level courses may not be taken by undergraduate students. Candidates must receive two-thirds of their certificate-applicable credit from the university. The transferring of credit or the substitution of courses may occur only after application to the appropriate campus authority.

The Certificate in Spanish for Business Management and Public Administration has 18 units, of which 8 units are Lower Division and 7 units are Upper Division, in addition to 3 units of service-learning. 

Certificates may be earned by regularly matriculated or extended learning students and denote successful completion of a prescribed program of study designed to:

  1. impart specified professional/vocational/career competencies; or
  2. produce mastery of the content of a sub-field of an academic major (discipline); or
  3. provide exposure to the range of materials in a traditional or emerging interdisciplinary field.

Certain certificate programs contain 6000-level courses as requirements and/or electives. These 6000-level courses may not be taken by undergraduate students. Candidates must receive two-thirds of their certificate-applicable credit from the university. The transferring of credit or the substitution of courses may occur only after application to the appropriate campus authority.

Admission to the Program

  1. Meet general university admission requirements.
  2. Students in all majors are eligible to participate.

Required Courses

Spanish Lower Division
4 units chosen from:4
Intermediate Spanish 1st Semester
Intermediate Healthcare Spanish I
Intermediate Criminal Justice Spanish I
4 units chosen from:4
Intermediate Spanish 2nd. Semester
Intermediate Healthcare Spanish II
Intermediate Criminal Justice Spanish II
Spanish Upper Division
SPAN 4401Spanish for the Professions 3
SPAN 4402Spanish for the Professions Activity 1
Business Management and Public Administration
3 units chosen from:3
Organizations in Multicultural and Diverse Societies
Society, Business, & Global Governance
Leadership for Global Challenges: Exploring the Entrepreneurial Mindset
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Legal Environment of Business
Employment Law
International Experience/Service-learning
3 units chosen from:3
Internship Project
Study Abroad and International Experience
Total Units18