PCC/ CCOG / SPA

Course Content and Outcome Guide for SPA 213A

Date:
30-MAY-2007
Posted by:
Curriculum Office
Course Number:
SPA 213A
Course Title:
Inter Spanish Conversation
Credit Hours:
3
Lecture hours:
30
Lecture/Lab hours:
0
Lab hours:
0
Special Fee:
 

Course Description

Continuation of SPA 212. Recommended: Completion of or simultaneous enrollment in SPA 203 or instructor permission.

Addendum to Course Description

Spanish 213A is a second-year level course designed to improve student’s ability to converse in Spanish. It provides opportunity to practice the structures and vocabulary students have encountered or are encountering in their second-year Spanish course. This course is a good review course for students who wish to prepare for further study in Spanish or for those traveling to a Spanish-speaking country. This is a three-credit transferable course, and it counts as an elective for the associate degrees.

Intended Outcomes for the course

The student:

  • Initiates, sustains and brings to a close a number of basic, uncomplicated communicative exchanges.
  • Creates with the language by combining language elements in discrete sentences and string of sentences.
  • Recognizes and appreciates linguistic and cultural diversity within the Hispanic world.

    • Outcome Assessment Strategies

    Students will be assessed by any combination of the following:

  • Active participation in class
  • Interactive student role-plays
  • Individual and groups presentation
  • Oral interviews with partners or instructor

    • Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

    Include all or most of the following:

  • Education and job search
  • Art, music and movies
  • Technology
  • Talking about the future and conditions: the future and conditional tenses
  • The subjunctive in present, imperfect and pluperfect


    • Competencies and Skills

    The student:

  • Manages personal interaction in predictable settings.
  • Discusses activities in present with accuracy, and in past tense with difficulty.
  • Uses commands and subjunctive in mostly memorized phrases.
  • Recognizes and appreciates cultural and linguistic differences in the Spanish speaking world.
  • Comprehends native speech in a contextualized setting.
  • Makes herself/himself understood by native speaker unaccustomed to dealing with non-native speakers.

     

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