Catalog description: Practice of Spanish grammar in the context of writing, reading, speaking and listening
Course Objectives:
This course will help you reach the intermediate high to advanced mid proficiency level according to ACTFL guidelines. At advanced mid proficiency level students can narrate and describe in major time frames and deal with unanticipated complications, participate in most informal and some formal settings, discuss topics of general and personal interest, be understood without difficulty by speakers unaccustomed to dealing with non-native speakers, communicate in paragraph form.
Spanish Program Student Learning Outcomes
- Communicate in Spanish
- Gain knowledge and understanding of cultures of the Hispanic world
- Connect with other disciplines and acquiring new information
- Develop awareness of similarities and differences (comparisons) among language and culture systems around the world
- Use Spanish to participate in communities at home and around the world
Course Student Learning Outcomes
- Produce written Spanish to meet practical needs as well as creative expression and formal discourse.
- Understand and apply major grammatical concepts to writing and speaking
- Understand the challenges of living between languages (spelling, false cognates, formal vs. informal language, etc)
- Expand vocabulary
- Demonstrate accurate reading comprehension.