Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Yale University
Guidelines for the Advanced Language Certificate in Spanish
If you would like to fulfill, or have fulfilled the certificate requirements, please fill out the Declaration of Candidacy for a Certificate form, using this link:
https://yalesurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8v8HI0myTMM01X8
Once completed, the form sends notification emails to the certificate advisor and to Yale University’s Registrar so that your degree audit can be updated with the Certificate of Advanced Language Study in Spanish. All transcripts are updated to reflect the Language Certificate at the time the student’s degree is conferred.
- The certificate requires four courses, all beyond the L4 level taught entirely in Spanish, at least two of which must be Yale courses designated as L5, and at least one of which must be a Yale 300-level advanced undergraduate lecture or seminar.
- A maximum of one course may be taken abroad as part of a non-Yale program. Students must take the necessary steps to ensure that any DUS-approved non-Yale course appears on their transcripts or Degree Audit record.
- All courses must be taken for a letter grade. Students must achieve a grade of B or above. Courses taken Credit/D/Fail will not be counted for the certificate.
- The DUS for Spanish will review and approve all courses to be applied to the certificate.
- Students must fill out a Declaration of Candidacy for a Certificate Form, found on the University Registrar site (https://registrar.yale.edu/forms-petitions) so that the certificate can be added to the student’s Degree Audit.