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May 30, 2026
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SPN 103Z First Year Spanish 3. Lecture Hours: 4 Credits: 4
Builds on foundational skills of Spanish 102Z including the language, cultural practices, and perspectives of Spanish-speaking communities both locally and globally. Continues to cultivate communicative skills such as listening, speaking, reading, writing, and intercultural competence through conversation, cultural exploration, and other activities. Designed for those who have completed two terms of college-level Spanish (or equivalent) as the third of three in the sequence of First-year Spanish courses (SPA/SPN/SPAN 101Z, 102Z, and 103Z). Students who successfully complete Spanish 103Z are ready to take the sequence of Second-year Spanish courses (Intermediate). If you have experience speaking Spanish at home, in your community, or abroad, please consult with the instructor to make sure this class is the best for your level.
Prerequisite: Placement into WR 115 (or higher); or completion of WR 090 (or concurrent enrollment), or WR 115 (or higher); or consent of instructor. (All prerequisite courses must be completed with a grade of C or better.) Recommended: SPN 102Z , or two years of high school Spanish. (With a grade of C or better.)
Student Learning Outcomes: Common Course Number Outcomes
- Interpret common cultural cues with respect to everyday interactions and situations. (Intercultural Competence)
- Participate in interactions on familiar topics combining and recombining learned words and phrases. (Interpersonal communication - Speaking & Writing)
- Provide information about familiar topics with greater specificity and detail. (Presentational Speaking & Writing)
- Identify the main ideas in short spoken messages, presentations, interactions, and a variety of media. (Interpretive Listening & Reading)
Content Outline Consists of the material in En familia, Chapters 9 through 12, in addition to any material provided by the instructor:
- In The City
- Lesson 9.1
- Past expressions
- Regular -AR preterite
- Holy Week
- Lesson 9.2
- Places in the city
- AR preterite with spelling changes
- The city
- Lesson 9.3
- Transportation
- Regular -ER and -IR verbs
- Urban transportation
- Lesson 9.4
- Ordinal numbers
- (I), (U) and (-Y-) preterite
- Street names and directions
- Lesson 9.5
- Highway and directions
- Irregular preterite I
- Highways
- Lesson 9.6
- More Latin countries
- Irregular preterite II
- Hispanic place names in the U.S.
- Lesson 9.7
- Languages
- Expressing ‘ago’
- Minority languages
- Work
- Lesson 10.1
- Work
- Regular -AR imperfect
- Work and business
- Lesson 10.2
- Looking for work
- Regular -ER and -IR imperfect
- Men’s and women’s roles
- Lesson 10.3
- The computer
- Irregular imperfect
- Professional titles
- Lesson 10.4
- Money and banking
- Past progressive
- Public interaction
- Lesson 10.5
- Answering the telephone
- Preterite vs. imperfect
- Law and regulations
- Lesson 10.6
- The party
- Indefinite and negative expressions
- Parties
- What Hurts?
- Lesson 11.1
- Internal organs
- Regular formal imperative
- May holidays
- Lesson 11.2
- Symptoms
- Irregular formal imperative
- Public health
- Lesson 11.3
- Verbs of health
- Formal imperative with pronouns
- Pharmacies
- Lesson 11.4
- More body parts
- Subjunctive with ‘I hope’, ‘maybe’ and ‘perhaps’
- Superstitions and beliefs
- Lesson 11.5
- Expressions of desire
- Subjunctive with expressions of desire
- Hispanics in the United States
- Lesson 11.6
- Treatments
- Verbs that take prepositions
- Natural medicine
- Have a Good Trip!
- Lesson 12.1
- Trips
- Regular informal imperative
- Travel destinations
- Lesson 12.2
- Airport
- Irregular informal imperative
- Airlines
- Lesson 12.3
- Airplane
- Informal imperative with pronouns
- Currencies
- Lesson 12.4
- Hotel
- Two words for ‘for’ I
- Lodging
- Lesson 12.5
- Country and nature
- Two words for ‘for’ II
- Geography
- Lesson 12.6
- Historical monuments
- Regular future
- Art museums
- Lesson 12.7
- Beach
- Irregular future
- Handicrafts
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