SPAN& 221 Spanish IV (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly SPAN 201 - CCN
Prerequisite SPAN&123 with at least a 1.5 GPA, 3 years high school Spanish, or instructor permission.
Course Description
Provides vocabulary building, grammar development, and practice in oral and written communication through the study of various aspects of the Spanish-speaking world. Specific cultural topics will vary at instructor’s discretion.
Course Content
A. Spanish conversation
B. Spanish composition
C. Grammar review and expansion of Spanish Language
D. Aspects of culture of the Spanish-speaking world
E. Authentic and level-appropriate written and aural texts (e.g. short stories, articles, short films, advertisements, and directions)
Student Outcomes
1. Reply to authentic and/or level-appropriate written and aural texts.
2. Interact with varying cultural practices, products, and perspectives in order to demonstrate cultural competence.
3. Write brief compositions related to familiar topics using learned vocabulary and grammar structures.
4. Recount known information aurally and in writing with an increasing amount of detail, e.g., retelling of the events of a story or anecdote.
5. Engage in short conversations with others using familiar vocabulary and grammar structures in diverse everyday situations.
6. Respond to unscripted questions about familiar topics using high-frequency vocabulary and relevant grammar structures.
7. Express personal opinions and hypothetical thinking using simple and compound verb forms in conversation with others.
Degree Outcomes
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.
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.
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
Class participation
Interview
Small group activities
Debate
Portfolio
Essay exam
Theater
Oral report
Video
Service learning
Short essay
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