SPN 103 First Year Spanish, Term 3

Lecture Hours: 4
Credits: 4

Introduces the Spanish language (including listening, speaking, reading and writing) and Hispanic culture (including geography, customs, daily life, heritage and literature), facilitated by the study of vocabulary, grammar, short readings and guided conversation. Instructor and students use Spanish as the primary language of the class.

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 102, or two years of high school Spanish. (With a grade of C or better.)

Student Learning Outcomes:

Respond to spoken phrases and sentences.
Interpret main ideas and details from spoken announcements, short narratives and conversations supported by context.
Speak sentences and questions to communicate information and ideas.
Initiate and sustain simple conversation.
Interpret main ideas and details from simple written narratives.
Interpret main ideas and some details from short authentic written materials such as advertisements, letters, and brief articles.
Transcribe dictated material.
Compose short written letters, paragraphs, and guided compositions.
Explain and use several behaviors and basic nonverbal cues.
Describe selected aspects of the geography, history, artistic heritage and cultural practices of the target culture.

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