SPN 202 Second Year Spanish, Term 2

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 201, or four years of high school Spanish (With a grade of C or better.)

Student Learning Outcomes:

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

Statewide 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
Consists of the material in Más Chapters 4-7, as follows, in addition to any additional material provided by the instructor.

Prepositions Por and Para
World at the Click of a Mouse
- Media; computers and other technologies
- Formal commands
- Informal commands
- Present subjunctive
The Good Life
- Quality of life; free time; to the table
- Subjunctive in noun clauses
- The impersonal se
Nos-otros
- National identity; experiences in other countries
- Indefinite, negative and positive words
- Indicative and subjunctive in adjectival clauses