SPN 201 Second Year Spanish, Term 1

Lecture Hours: 4
Credits: 4

Provides extensive practice in all four language skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening). Includes cultural and literary readings and an in-depth review and expansion of basic Spanish grammar and vocabulary, as well as a broadening of the student’s understanding of Hispanic culture. All classroom interaction (both by instructor and students) takes place in Spanish.

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 103, or three years of high school Spanish. (With a grade of C or better.)

Student Learning Outcomes:

Respond simply and logically in familiar conversational situations.
Interpret main ideas from common oral sources such as announcements and broadcasts.
Communicate information and ideas orally using complete sentences.
Initiate and sustain conversation on familiar topics grounded in personal experience.
Interpret main ideas from simple written materials.
Write accurately structured simple sentences in the past, present and future time frames.
Write short comprehensible letters and compositions on topics grounded in personal experience.
Interpret and use several behaviors and basic nonverbal cues.
Describe selected aspects of the geography, history, artistic heritage, and cultural practices of the target culture.

General Education Outcomes:

Interpret and engage in the Arts and Letters, making use of the creative process to enrich the quality of life.
Critically analyze values and ethics within a range of human experience and expression to engage more fully in local and global issues.

Content Outline

A Question of Image
- Physical traits, personality
- The present tense
- To be, to do, to have and haber
- Comparisons
“I Am Me and My Circumstances”
- Religions; political affiliation; other social relations; university life; carreers and majors
- Object pronouns
- Reflexive verbs
- ‘To be pleasing’ and similar verbs
Raíces
- Family relationships; Important days; Talking about the family
- The preterite
- The imperfect
- The preterite vs. the imperfect
With Sweat on Your Brow
- Occupations; job search; work
- The accidental se
- The present perfect