SPN 203 Second Year Spanish, Term 3

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

Student Learning Outcomes:

Respond logically in familiar conversational situations.
Interpret information 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.
Interpret main ideas and some details from short authentic written materials.
Accurately structure sentences in the past, present, and future time frames.
Compose comprehensible letters, compositions, and paraphrases.
Interpret and use 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 materials in Más Chapters 8-10, as follows, in addition to any additional materials provided by the instructor.

Our Small World
- The environment; the city; the economy
- The future
- The future perfect
- Indicative and subjunctive in adverbial clauses
In Search of Equality
- Social themes; Expressing opinions; The individual
- Present perfect sunjunctive
- Relative pronouns
Precolumbian Times
- Talking about history; The passage of time
- Imperfect subjunctive
- Conditional
- Conditional perfect (Ch. 11)