Spanish: SL:Intermediate Spanish I

Significant review of grammar, moving toward increased proficiency in composition, listening comprehension, pronunciation, speaking, reading, and writing. Emphasis on cultural context. Compositions, oral practice, reading. Students may take 1 Spanish course numbered between 2100 and 2109 for credit. Credit not awarded for SPAN 2100 following receipt of credit for any SPAN course numbered SPAN 2200 or above. Prerequisites: SPAN 1200 or equivalent.

Prereq: SPAN 1200 or equivalent; Open to degree and PACE students

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Significant review of grammar, moving toward increased proficiency in composition, comprehension, pronunciation, speaking, reading, and writing. Emphasis on cultural context. Compositions, oral practice, reading. Cannot be taken for credit after SPAN 2200. Prerequisites: SPAN 1200 or equivalent. This course will have a community-engaged component, where students learning Spanish at UVM can create a video for K-12 kids, based on Indigenous or Afro Hispanic tales. The final goal of Hispanic Tales’ project is to offer a virtual library to School Boards teaching Spanish for Kids in Vermont, a literacy component empowering Spanish proficiency levels for UVM students. The University of Vermont respects the Department of Education’s definition of a credit hour: for every hour spent in a classroom, a student is expected to complete approximately 2 hours of coursework outside of it. Thus, in SPAN 2100, a 3-credit course, a student should expect to work about 6 hours a week outside of the classroom.

Upon completion of this course, the student: 1. Converse with ease, in Spanish, on a non-technical, conversational level, about the six themes included in this course: personal relationships, leisure activities, daily life, health and wellbeing, travel, and nature. • Methods of Evaluation: Class participation, Speaking assessments. 2. Read and write with ease, in Spanish, about the six themes above, on a non-technical level. • Methods of Evaluation: Informes, Tests, Final exam 3. Narrate in the past, present and future, within the interpersonal and presentational modes of communication, about the six themes above, on a non-technical level. • Methods of Evaluation: Class participation, Speaking assessments, Informes, Online homework, Tests, Final exam. 4. Show in conversation and in writing the ability to understand and share hopes, wishes, recommendations, opinions, requests, as well as give and follow directions, expressed using the subjunctive mood. • Methods of Evaluation: Class participation, Speaking assessments, Informes, Online homework, Tests, Final exam. 5. Use with competence the cultural information studied throughout the semester related to the six themes above, presented in the form of short films, poems, page-long literary pieces, and cultural notes in the textbook. • Methods of Evaluation: Class participation, Speaking assessments, Informes, Online homework. Community Outcomes: • Propose a video for a virtual library for Hispanic tales’ project. • Design a creative video for K-12 students about an Indigenous or Afro Latin American tale. • Develop an understandable reading in Spanish for K-12 students. • Introduce Indigenous or Afro Latin American perspectives to K-12 students.

Class participation: 5% Homework (Tarea): 5% Blackboard journals (Informes) (3): 30% Exams (Pruebas) (2): 20% • Prueba 1 10% • Prueba 2 10% Speaking Assessments (Exámenes orales) (2): 20% Portfolio (Carpeta) 10% Final Exam (Examen Final): 10% Total 100%