SPAN 205 - Advanced Spanish Conversation

Number of Credits: 3
Increase your confidence with Spanish speaking and listening, while exploring signficant historical and cultural influences through literature, current events, and media. Prerequisite: SPAN-202 or four years of high school Spanish with an advisor’s approval. Three hours lecture each week. Three credits. Three billable hours. (Summer Term Only) Three hours lecture each week. Three credits. Three billable hours.

Pre-requisite(s): SPAN 202 or four years of high school Spanish with an advisor’s approval.
Course Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Consistently initiate, maintain, and end a conversation to satisfy basic needs and simple transactions. (GE1)
2. Produce and respond to interpersonal narrations and descriptions in all major time frames and across a broad range of topics, including current events and matters or public and community interest. (GE1)
3. Use appropriate structures and strategies to maintain communciation during interpersonal interactions, including asking for clarification, self-correcting and restating when not understood, and using circumlocution. (GE1)
4. Use appropriate structures and strategies to maintain communciation during presentational interactions, including self-correcting and restating when not understood, simplifying, providing examples, and using circumlocution. (GE1)
5. Comprehends paragraph discourse such as that found in stories, literary works, personal and work-related correspondence, oral presentations (news), and other texts dealing with topics of a concrete nature. (GE1, GE6)
6. Recognize and use some culturally appropriate vocabulary, expressions, and gestures when participating in everyday interactions. (GE1, GE8)
7. Identify differences in cultural behaviors and demonstrate ability to conform in familiar situations. (GE1, GE8)