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CAAL

Agenda Item 2.h.

4/22/2004

New Program Proposal

Bachelor of Arts in Spanish

USC-Beaufort

Downtown and New River Campuses

Summary

USC-Beaufort requests approval to offer a program leading to the Bachelor of Arts

degree in Spanish, to be implemented in Fall 2005, at both the Downtown and New River

campuses. The proposed major will have two tracks: a traditional track and one for

native speakers.

The proposal was submitted for Commission review on February 17, 2004. The

proposal was reviewed without substantive comment and voted upon favorably by the

Advisory Committee on Academic Programs at its regularly scheduled meeting on March

31, 2004. The Board of Trustees is expected to approve the proposal at its regularly

scheduled meeting on April 21, 2004.

The purpose of the program is to prepare graduates who will be eligible to assume

a variety of important roles in the community, especially the four-county area which

constitutes the primary service area for USC-Beaufort.

The proposal states that the

implementation of this degree major will coincide with the elimination of a Spanish

concentration option in the Bachelor of Liberal Studies degree program at USC-Beaufort.

Graduates will be able to assume professional positions in business and commerce, and in

public and private agencies, upon graduating with a degree in Spanish. In addition, it

provides skills and knowledge bases for persons wishing to pursue a teaching career in

this language. The estimated need for the program has been measured upon several

methodologies: a survey of students at USC-Beaufort, who were in the BAIS major but

now favor Spanish; the institution’s estimated increase of student majors who will be

entering the institution as freshmen in the future; and community interest expressed by

employers for persons who can serve

as teachers, as employees of

public and

eleemosynary service agencies which deal with the growing Hispanic presence in the

region, or as business personnel catering to Hispanic clients/consumers.

The growth in

the general population of the Beaufort area has placed it in percentage terms at the top of

South Carolina’s counties. Additionally—albeit beginning at a very small population

base—the percentage growth of the Hispanic population in the same time period within

this service area represents an even higher rate of growth.

New Program Proposal Bachelor Of Arts In Spanish