Rapid Reading and Translation
4:10pm–6:00pm
CASA HISPANICA HIS 505
Seat data provenance: Directory as of August 23, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Description
Open to graduate students in GSAS only. This course, conducted in English, is designed to help graduate students from other departments gain proficiency in reading and translating Spanish texts for scholarly research. The course prepares students to take the Reading Proficiency Exam that most graduate departments demand to fulfill the foreign-language proficiency requirement in that language. Graduate students with any degree of knowledge of Spanish are welcome. A grade of A- or higher in this class will satisfy the GSAS foreign language proficiency requirement in Spanish.
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4.0 / 5 · Hard
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- 3 credits
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