2024-2025 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    Oct 06, 2024  
2024-2025 Pierce College Catalog
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SPAN& 123 Spanish III (5 credits)



Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly SPAN 103 - CCN

Prerequisite SPAN& 122  grade of 2.0 or better, or instructor permission.

Course Description
Third quarter of first-year Spanish stressing speaking, reading, writing and understanding Spanish.

Course Content
A. Relevant high-frequency vocabulary pertaining to texts covered in class  
B. Verb tenses: imperfect, present perfect, past perfect, future, present subjunctive  
C. Cultural and literary readings 
D. Written and aural text (e.g. short stories, articles, advertisements and directions)

Student Outcomes
1. Respond to simple written and aural texts.

2. Identify multiple cultural customs through immersion in authentic language materials.

3. Write simple sentences and paragraphs related to familiar topics using learned vocabulary and grammar structures.

4. Recount known information aurally and in writing, e.g., retelling of the events of a story or anecdote. 

5. Engage in short conversations with others using learned vocabulary and grammar structures.

6. Respond to simple questions about familiar topics using high-frequency vocabulary and relevant grammar structures.

7. Express desires, opinions and probable occurrences using formulaic and unscripted language.

8. Apply Spanish language in a highly immersive community environment.

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.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

Potential Methods
Written exam
Written assignments
Compositions
Oral examination
Listening + short answer or objective test
Reading + short answer or objective test



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