SPAN& 121 Spanish I (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly SPAN 101 - CCN
Course Description
A first-year sequential course to give the student the ability to speak, read, write and understand Spanish.
Course Content
greetings and farewell expressions
idiomatic expressions with the verb tener.
interrogatives, cardinal numbers, time, date, and basic colors.
basic sentence structure: verb placement, nominative and prepositional cases. E. introduction to direct and indirect nouns and pronouns.
relating events in the present tense, present progressive, and ir + a + infinitive construction.
vocabulary and information related to weather, academic life, family relationships, and basic personal information.
introduction to informal commands
Student Outcomes
- Express likes, dislikes, and preferences in the present tense in spontaneous spoken or written conversations on familiar topics.
- Apply high-frequency verbs (including ser and estar) in various settings.
- Employ simple present tense forms (including the present progressive).
- Express appropriate forms of address in a variety of settings.
- Describe oneself and others using highly-memorized and formulaic language.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to craft and exchange ideas and information in a variety of situations, in response to audience, context, purpose, and motivation.
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
Small group conversations
Short answer tests
Short essays
Listening activities
Reading activities
Interviews
Objective tests
Basic oral presentations
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