The Bachelor of Arts in Spanish for Global Competence provides foundational academic and professional preparation for students to develop linguistic and intercultural competence through the study of the Spanish language and the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. The curriculum is designed to maximize the success of both language learners and native/heritage speakers of Spanish. Through experiential learning in language classes, as well as in more advanced courses in literature, culture, linguistics, and Spanish for the professions, students are trained to be multilingual and intercultural. In addition to linguistic and cultural competence, students gain valuable skills in critical thinking, communication, and problem-solving. Our substantive program prepares students for success in an increasingly interconnected world, in fields such as the language services industry—interpreting, localization, and translation; education; research; writing, publishing, and the media; health, legal, and social services; business; government; international relations; the cultural heritage sector—museums, libraries, and archives.

Critical Languages and International Studies BA French Global Studies BA Modern Languages BA Arabic Chinese French German Korean Russian Spanish Spanish for Global Competence BA Spanish Translation & Interpreting BA

The Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Translation and Interpreting provides foundational academic and professional preparation in Spanish-English and English-Spanish translation and interpreting. Through experiential learning in language classes, as well as in more advanced courses in medical, business, technical, scientific, legal, and community translation and interpreting, students are trained to be multilingual and intercultural. In addition to linguistic and cultural competence, students gain valuable skills in critical thinking, communication, and problem-solving. During enrollment in the program, students have the opportunity to gain professional experience at non-profit organizations through service learning. The substantive program provides students multiple career prospects in the language-services industry or in other professional areas requiring advanced use and translation and interpreting of Spanish such as health, business, education, advertising, criminal justice, media communication, and social services.

The Certificate in Spanish Linguistics provides foundational academic preparation in Spanish for language professionals. The certificate program includes courses in the core areas of Spanish language and linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax), as well as elective options that allow students to tailor their program of study to meet their interests and academic and professional goals. Students learn about modern linguistic theory and the application of those theories to teaching, research, translation and interpreting, as well as other professions in the healthcare, business, and government sectors. 

The Bachelor of Arts in Spanish for Global Competence to Master of Arts in Modern Languages Fast Track allows outstanding undergraduate students in French at UT Arlington to take up to three graduate seminars in Spanish that will earn credit toward both the bachelor's degree and the master's degree. It is designed to encourage high standards of performance, to facilitate the transition from undergraduate to graduate study, and to reduce time needed to complete the MA.

Students pursuing the Minor in Localization and Translation (Spanish) study the processes of localization and develop specialized skills in translation for future employment in the language services industry. Localization adapts language, texts, products, software and websites to the locale for which they are intended. By using specialized computer-assisted translation workflow software and simulating a collaborative work environment, students become conversant with the tools and procedures required for twenty-first century localization and translation work. Extensive practice in translating a variety of oral and written documents in the target language provides the skills to work in business, non-profit, and academic contexts.

In the five-course Certificate in Localization and Translation (Spanish), students study the processes of localization and develop specialized skills in translation for future employment in the language services industry. Localization adapts language, texts, products, software and websites to the locale for which they are intended. By using specialized computer-assisted translation workflow software and simulating a collaborative work environment, students become conversant with the tools and procedures required for twenty-first century localization and translation work. Extensive practice in translating a variety of oral and written documents in the target language provides the skills to work in business, non-profit, and academic situations. 

The Bachelor of Arts degree in Modern Languages (Spanish) with a concentration in Localization and Translation combines language, culture, and technology to prepare students for work in the language services industry. Localization translates and adapts language, texts, products, software, and websites to a target culture. Students work with an international software partner to build machine translation (MT) engines and test their engines against international translation products. Students learn in a collaborative work environment with hands-on training in computer-assisted translation, focusing on concepts of "big language data" collection and processing, as well as MT engine tuning across multiple languages and domains. Students also build AI models using these same language data for natural language understanding. The substantive program provides training in key skills for future employment tasks, for ultimate career preparedness.