<p>How long does the moratorium on Spanish Minors last? What's the deal with that, and can I expect to minor in Spanish?</p>
<p>…Not unless UVA lifts its hiring freeze - the justification is that there are not enough professors/classes. So until there are more professors… No more minor. You can always major or go abroad or so on to continue with your Spanish! There’s a club where you can talk Spanish; there’s a Spanish house (might be competitive for non majors though) I believe; there are TONS of volunteering opportunities within the community for translating, tutoring, etc migrant workers etc, which would look a lot better on your resume than a minor anyways!! HTH</p>
<p>Thanks, I spent four years in high school (albeit they probably weren’t worth four years) on Spanish. I hate to see that go down the drain. I’ll be in the E-School (which I’m having doubts about it’s quality compared to Tech, (I worry too much people tell me) but people tell me that double majoring in the E-School is REALLY hard.</p>
<p>for a foreign language it’s a doable task, but you’ll be left with almost no other elective options. If you really love spanish then go for it.</p>
<p>no need to really discuss uva vs vt engineering, just note the key differences and don’t worry about “better” (those being vt is larger and focuses more on the technical and the hands on engineering, while uva is smaller and focuses more on engineering for research)</p>
<p>This is worrisome. Is there a moratorium on other minors?</p>
<p>you can see all of the minors here – [Majors</a> & Minors — Undergraduate, College of Arts & Sciences, U.Va.](<a href=“http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/college/major/index.html]Majors”>http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/college/major/index.html)
but a lot of the ones not listed as minor (math, sociology, stat, mesalc) do have minors according to their websites.</p>
<p>this is new though: “**Effective May 3, 2010
All non-College of Arts & Sciences students are limited to one major and/or one minor in the College.”</p>
<p>so maybe they are trying to combat it that way instead of restricting students? if the hiring freeze keeps up though, they’ll have no choice. this is nothing anyone can do anything about, except those politicians who just cut another 11% from the education budget… all public schools are experiencing things like this or worse…</p>
<p>Thanks hazelrob for the link.</p>
<p>I, for one, am glad that the minor is gone. The Spanish Dept at UVA is one of the best in the country and all the upper-level classes are extremely popular (Shaw’s Borges or Latin American Lit classes) and 2nd or 3rd year Echols or those who had enough credits would fill them up while the majors would be left out. Those who “minor” in Spanish were usually comm majors who wanted to take Business Spanish to supplement their curriculum and by and large weren’t the hardest workers in class. If someone wants to improve their Spanish, great, but they should just take the class and learn, not worry about some minor that no one (in terms of grad school or employers) is going to care about. </p>
<p>PS: The Spanish House is open to anyone and no preference is given to Spanish majors, I lived there my last two years and we had kids from literally every undergrad school.</p>