Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and Linguistics

New York University

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is an interdisciplinary department focused on the language, cultural formations, and critical thought emerging from Latin America, the Caribbean, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Luso-Afro-Brazilian world. Spanish and Portuguese are among the world’s leading languages of culture, sociopolitics, and commerce. Once languages of empire, Spanish and Portuguese are now the lingua franca of important sectors of the Global South, and Spanish is the growing second language of the United States. We practice inclusive, decolonial approaches to language and translation critical and comparative approaches to film, literature, performance, music, and visual art humanistic engagements with historiography, memory, and archives and we participate in debates in philosophy and critical and social thought, including Black and Indigenous perspectives from the Global South. Students are encouraged to study away at NYU Madrid or NYU Buenos Aires, where they may fulfill major or minor requirements through site-specific classes and immersive experiences. In addition, students participate in internships and collaborate on the online undergraduate journal, Esferas.

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