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Effective Term:
Fall 2026

Course Number:
SPA 103
Course Title:
First-Year Spanish III
Credit Hours:
4
Lecture Hours:
40
Lecture/Lab Hours:
0
Lab Hours:
0

Course Description

Builds on foundational skills of Spanish 102Z including the language, cultural practices, and perspectives of Spanish-speaking communities both locally and globally. Continues to cultivate communicative skills such as listening, speaking, reading, writing, and intercultural competence through conversation, cultural exploration, and other activities. Designed for those who have completed two terms of college-level Spanish (or equivalent) as the third of three in the sequence of First-year Spanish courses (SPA 101Z, 102Z, and 103Z). Students who successfully complete Spanish 103Z are ready to take the sequence of Second-year Spanish courses (Intermediate). If you have experience speaking Spanish at home, in your community, or abroad, please consult with the instructor to make sure this class is the best for your level. This course is part of Oregon Common Course Numbering. SPA 103 and SPA 103Z are equivalent. Audit available.

Intended Outcomes for the course

Upon successful completion of the class, students should be able to:

  1. Interpret common cultural cues with respect to everyday interactions and situations. (Intercultural Competence).
  2. Participate in interactions on familiar topics combining and recombining learned words and phrases. (Interpersonal communication - Speaking & Writing).
  3. Provide information about familiar topics with greater specificity and detail. (Presentational Speaking & Writing).
  4. Identify the main ideas in short spoken messages, presentations, interactions, and a variety of media. (Interpretive Listening & Reading).

Course Activities and Design

After the introduction to the course, Spanish will be used in the classroom at all times.

Outcome Assessment Strategies

Students will be assessed by any combination of the following:
1. Active participation in class
2. Individual and group presentations
3. Contextual written tasks (in or outside of class) to assess reading,
   writing, cultural, and aural competencies
4. Oral interviews with partner or instructor
5. In class, interactive student role-plays
 

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

Include all or most of the following:
1. Daily routine and personal hygiene
2. Reflexive verbs
3. Indefinite and negative words
4. Verbs like Gustar
5. Time expressions
Preterit of the verbs Ser and Ir
6. Food, meals and restaurants
7. Preterit of stem-changing verbs
8. Comparisons and superlatives
9. Parties, holidays and celebrations
10. Personal relationships and life stages
11. Irregular preterits
12. Pronouns after prepositions
13. Health, medicine, medical conditions and parts of the body
14. Past tense (imperfect)
15. adverbs
16. Using the preterit and imperfect together
Competencies and Skills
1. Manages basic personal interactions 
2. Discusses future plans and preferences
3. Describes daily activities in present and past
4. Recognizes and appreciates cultural and linguistic differences in the
   Spanish speaking world
5. Begins to write paragraphs
6. Reads and understands the main ideas in a variety of texts
7. Comprehends slow native speech in a highly contextual setting
8. Makes herself/himself understood by a native speaker accustomed to
   non-native speakers