Catalog description:
Focus on improving linguistic proficiency through the study of areas of inquiry including history of Spanish, first and second language acquisition, bilingualism, language variation, etc
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
- Describe the importance of language in the development of society
- Describe the process of language acquisition and multilingualism
- Examine the challenges of living between languages
- Appraise the values ascribed to languages through the lens of power relations
- Compare and contrast sound systems of Spanish.
- Examine the variety of Spanish and other languages in Spanish-speaking societies
- Research and write about topics in language