Spanish: SL:Intermediate Spanish I (E)

About SPAN 2100 E

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.

Notes

Prereq: SPAN 1200 or equivalent; open to degree and PACE students System waitlisting enabled for this section.

Section Description

Course Description
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 podcast in Spanish for UWRV, which will be the first Spanish talk show in Vermont. 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.

Section Expectation

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the students:
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 podcast in Spanish of 60 minutes.
• Design and conduct an interesting broadcast for radio in Spanish about Hispanic Worlds.
• Develop an understandable interaction in Spanish for listeners at WRUV.
• Introduce different topics of the Hispanic Worlds to audience in Vermont.

Evaluation

Evaluation
Class participation: 5%
Homework (Tarea): 5%
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%

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