Spanish

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO-1: Demonstrate increasing comprehension of language use.
• Understand and produce appropriate responses in familiar situations, such as those pertaining to classroom, family, home, travel, etc.
• SLO-2: Analyze and discuss various topics from newspapers and magazine articles.
• Create a series of basic oral presentations where the student compares and contrasts a given topic.
• SLO-3: Experience a culturally rich environment. Demonstrate knowledge of geography.
• Understand the culture of the regions where Spanish is spoken.
• SLO-4: Analyze different linguistic patterns from other Spanish speaking countries, such as gestures, the use of tú vs usted and cultural values.
• Interact with community members where the language is spoken at community activities and events.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO-1: Develop the ability to communicate creatively in a real-world setting.
• Create short dialogs from learned materials.
• SLO-2: Demonstrate increased conceptual understanding and more sustained control of learned high frequency expressions and phrases in conversation.
• Follow a series of basic oral instructions requiring non-verbal response, such as commands and directions.
• SLO-3: Formulate and analyze various topics from newspaper and magazine articles.
• Discuss different topics, such as educational plans, politial issues in Latin America, cultural values, and to learn about the contributions of other people from other cultures to American life.
• SLO-4: Demonstrate knowledge of geography and an understanding of the culture of the regions where Spanish is spoken

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• DEMONSTRATE INCREASING COMPREHENSION OF LANGUAGE USE. SLO#1
• Using listening comprehension skills identify the main ideas of natural, spoken conversation using an increasing vocabulary and idioms.
• DEVELOP LANGUAGE SKILLS TO COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY. SLO#2
• Utilize sustained control of high-frequency expressions and phrases learned in the beginning levels in conversation.
• Ask and answer simple questions on every day topics.
• RECOGNIZE AND APPRECIATE PATTERNS OF CULTURE IN SPANISH SPEAKING REGIONS. SLO#3
• Identify physical and cultural geography of Spanish speaking countries.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• DEMONSTRATE INCREASING COMPREHENSION OF LANGUAGE USE. SLO#1
• Demonstrate listening comprehension with an increased understanding of ideas presented in native-spoken conversation.
• DEVELOP LANGUAGE SKILLS TO COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY. SLO#2
• Demonstrate sustained control of high-frequency expressions and phrases used in the intermediate levels of conversation.
• Produce language that communicates information.
• Ask and answer questions on every day topics.
• RECOGNIZE AND APPRECIATE PATTERNS OF CULTURE IN SPANISH SPEAKING REGIONS. SLO#3
• Demonstrate knowledge of physical and cultural geography of Spanish speaking countries.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• PRODUCE AND COMPREHEND BASIC COURTESIES AND SIMPLE CONVERSATIONS ON STUDENT LIFE IN SPANISH. SLO#1
• Understand short spoken dialogue and answer simple questions, such as telling time, greetings, days of the week, academic subjects, identifying people, and sports.
• Communicate minimally with learned material. The student can respond orally using core vocabulary phrases and expressions.
• Demonstrate knowledge of geography and an understanding of the culture of the regions where Spanish is spoken.
• Incorporate basic learned materials, such as phrases, paraphrastic expressions, reflexive and preterite verbs, in daily life situations.
• DEMONSTRATE ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE IN WRITING USING LEARNED GRAMMATICAL FORMS. SLO#2
• List and describe material read or heard. Supply specific biographical information. Write simple sentences about travel, family, classroom, pastimes and weather.
• ANALYZE AND INTERPRET WRITTEN MATERIAL. SLO#3
• Comprehend a reading selection based on familiar topics, such as travel, family, classroom and academic life, pastime, and weather.
• DISTINGUISH CULTURAL ELEMENTS OF THE SPANISH-SPEAKING WORLD. SLO#4
• Recognize the fundamental cultural values in a variety of situations, such as gestures and the use of tú and usted.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• DEMONSTRATE INCREASED CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING AND MORE SUSTAINED CONTROL OF LEARNED HIGH FREQUENCY EXPRESSIONS AND PHRASES IN CONVERSATION (SLO#1).
• Create and dramatize short dialogs which include routine questions, talk about future plans, including weekends and evenings, and give simple instructions, compare and contrast. Produce speech intelligible to a sympathetic listener using broader vocabulary than in SPAN 401.
• DEMONSTRATE ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE IN WRITING USING LEARNED GRAMMATICAL FORMS (SLO#2).
• Create compositions that include listing, writing simple messages and supplying basic biographical information using simple sentences. Writing will be intelligible to a sympathetic listener used to communicate with non-native speakers and demonstrate emerging creativity. It will consist of short responses and questions using basic but broader vocabulary than that used at the SPAN 401 level and will do so with increasing accuracy.
• DISTINGUISH AND EXAMINE CULTURAL ELEMENTS OF THE SPANISH-SPEAKING WORLD (SLO #3).
• Recognize characteristics of the regions where Spanish is spoken, including architecture, music, dance, literary figures, recording artists and other cultural activities, which are part of the culture.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• PRODUCE AND COMPREHEND BASIC COURTESIES AND SIMPLE CONVERSATIONS ON STUDENT LIFE IN SPANISH (SLO#1).
• Understand short, spoken dialogue and answer simple questions, such as telling time, greetings, days of the week, academic subjects, identifying people, and sports.
• Communicate minimally with learned material by responding orally using core vocabulary phrases and expressions.
• Demonstrate knowledge of geography and an understanding of the culture of the regions where Spanish is spoken.
• Incorporate basic learned materials, such as phrases and expressions, in daily life situations.
• Demonstrate sustained control of high-frequency expression and phrases learned at the moderate-beginning level in conversation and writing.
• DEMONSTRATE ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE IN WRITING USING LEARNED GRAMMATICAL FORMS (SLO#2).
• Write down simple sentences about travel, family, classroom, pastimes and weather.
• Demonstrate listening comprehension by getting the main ideas of natural, spoken conversation using a 1000-3000-word vocabulary.
• Identify the gist of general topics in brief passages of contemporary prose.
• Create conversations and compositions with the language by combining learned elements in a reactive mode.
• Sustain and close simple, basic communicative tasks.
• ANALYZE AND INTERPRET WRITTEN MATERIAL (SLO#3).
• Comprehend a reading selection based on familiar topics, such as travel, family, classroom and academic life, pastimes, and weather.
• Demonstrate knowledge of geography and an understanding of the culture of the regions where Spanish is spoken, including art, architecture, music, dance, literary figures, recording artists, and other activities which are part of the culture.
• DISTINGUISH CULTURAL ELEMENTS OF THE SPANISH-SPEAKING WORLD (SLO#4).
• Recognize the fundamental cultural values in a variety of situations, such as gestures and the use of tú and usted.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Communicate in writing using learned grammatical forms. (SLO 1, P-SLO 2)
• Write expressively with a high degree of accuracy in word choice and grammatical construction from essays and articles.
• Analyze some of the literary works and compare some of the authors and their work.
• Develop listening and reading comprehension skills by selecting topics related to the learned materials. (SLO2, P-SLO 1)
• Read and discuss a variety of written works.
• Discussions may be on cultural, social and political events.
• Use a more sophisticated and varied vocabulary than during the previous course level. (SLO 3, P-SLO 2)
• Communicate in complex situations about topics beyond immediate and personal needs.
• Narrate and describe in the present and past tenses.
• Extend his/her knowledge of the geography and culture of Spanish-speaking regions. These topics may include art, music, architecture, literary figures, and other cultural activities of those regions. (SLO 4, P-SLO 3)
• Analyze the culture of the target language by doing Internet research in Spanish.
• Compare and contrast different Spanish speaking countries’ culture and customs.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO #1: Demonstrate proficiency in the five skills as mandated by the competency guidelines of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL): comprehension, speaking, reading, writing, and an understanding of the people and culture of the Spanish-speaking countries.
• Recognize and compose with the indicative tenses: present, preterit, imperfect and future.
• Utilize correct grammatical structures of standard Spanish.
• Demonstrate critical thinking through contrastive and inductive analysis and techniques to develop logical and coherent thought and expression in written and oral language.
• Read Spanish proficiently as found, for example, in Spanish language newspapers, magazines, short stories, essays, and selections of poetry written by Spanish, Spanish-American, and Chicano authors.
• Identify the countries and the capitals of countries where Spanish is the official language.
• Speak standard Spanish with greater precision using varied grammatical patterns of enriched vocabulary.
• Identify and use diacritical marks: the accent, dieresis, tilde, question and exclamation marks.
• Name and write, with correct spelling, the forms of articles, adjectives, pronouns and nouns.
• Identify and demonstrate the correct use of direct object nouns and pronouns, and reflexive pronouns.
• Identify, differentiate and employ the parts of speech.
• Identify and demonstrate the use of gender and number in nouns and articles.
• Identify which verb forms and vocabulary words belongs to standard Spanish, colloquial Spanish, and local colloquial Spanish, influenced in lexicon and syntax by the English language and common to Spanish speakers with no formal education in the language.
• Compose sentences in Spanish using correct punctuation and capitalization.
• SLO #2: Analyze and critique, from a student's own experience and knowledge, aspects of the Spanish-speaking culture that differ significantly from contemporary United States culture.
• Research and identify names of some major landmarks and regions in Spanish-speaking nations, names of persons and events of historical and cultural importance.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• (SLO1) Demonstrate proficiency in the five skills as mandated by the competency guidelines of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL): comprehension, speaking, reading, writing, and an understanding of the people and culture of the Spanish-speaking countries
• Recognize and demonstrate the correct use of the indicative tenses: present, preterite, imperfect and future
• Recognize and demonstrate the correct use the conditional form, the subjunctive form and the compound tenses
• Recognize and demonstrate the correct use of the direct object, the indirect object, and reflexive pronouns
• Read Spanish proficiently as found, for example, in Spanish language newspapers, magazines, short stories, essays, and selections of poetry written by Spanish, Spanish-American, and Chicano authors like Ernesto Cardenal, Octavio Paz, Gabriel García Márquez, Tomás Rivera, Elena Poniatowska, Ana Castillo, Otto René Castillo, Roque Dalton, Gioconda Belli, and others
• Identify names of some major landmarks and regions in Spanish-speaking nations, names of persons and events of historical and cultural importance, holidays in the Spanish speaking world, etc.
• Identify and employ diacritical marks: the accent, dieresis, tilde, question and exclamation marks
• Produce sentences, paragraphs and essays in Spanish using correct punctuation and capitalization
• Analyze from their own experience and knowledge aspects of the Spanish-speaking culture that differ significantly from contemporary United States culture
• (SLO2) Students will improve their language skills above the prerequisite course, and will continue to expand their knowledge between standard and popular Spanish, using varied grammatical patterns and an enriched vocabulary
• Identify and differentiate which verb forms and vocabulary words belongs to standard Spanish, colloquial Spanish, and local colloquial Spanish, influenced in lexicon and syntax by the English language and common to Spanish speakers with no formal education in the language

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO 1: DEMONSTRATE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF BASIC SENTENCE STRUCTURE IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH.
• Identify the five sentence types: 1) positive sentence; 2) negative sentence; 3) yes/no question; 4) negative yes/no question; and 5) content question.
• Compose grammatically correct sentences utilizing basic and intermediate structures of English and Spanish in writing.
• SLO 2: ANALYZE SPANISH AND ENGLISH GRAMMAR FROM A CONTRASTIVE PERSPECTIVE.
• Recognize and interpret intermediate structures of English and Spanish grammar in text and speech.
• Compare and contrast the five sentence types in Spanish and English.
• Examine and demonstrate the differences between and the correct use of the indicative tenses in English and Spanish.
• Contrast usage of Imperfect and Preterite tenses in Spanish and compare to their equivalent usage in English.
• SLO 3: IDENTIFY INDIVIDUAL PATTERNS OF GRAMMAR ERRORS WHEN USING THE TARGET LANGUAGE IN ORDER TO LATER AVOID THEM SUCCESSFULLY.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO 1: DEMONSTRATE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF BASIC SENTENCE STRUCTURE IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH AT ALL LEVELS OF GRAMMATICAL COMPLEXITY.
• Identify the five sentence types: 1) positive sentence; 2) negative sentence; 3) yes/no question; 4) negative yes/no question; and 5) content question.
• Compose grammatically correct sentences utilizing intermediate and advanced structures of English and Spanish in speech and writing.
• SLO 2: ANALYZE SPANISH AND ENGLISH GRAMMAR FROM A CONTRASTIVE PERSPECTIVE.
• Recognize and interpret intermediate and advanced structures of English and Spanish grammar in text and speech.
• Compare and contrast word order or "syntax" in Spanish and English in the five sentence types: 1) positive sentence; 2) negative sentence; 3) yes/no question; 4) negative yes/no question; and 5) content question.
• Examine and demonstrate the differences between and the correct use of the subjunctive form and the compound tenses in English and Spanish.
• Contrast Spanish and English conditional sentences and unreal comparisons.
• SLO 3: IDENTIFY INDIVIDUAL PATTERNS OF GRAMMAR ERRORS WHEN USING THE TARGET LANGUAGE IN ORDER TO LATER AVOID THEM SUCCESSFULLY.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Demonstrate increasing comprehension of language use (SLO#1).
• Improve pronunciation, aural comprehension, reading and writing skills through practical use.
• Analyze the functions of the elements of the sentence (i.e. grammar and syntax)
• Write short narratives and expository prose combined with increased culture awareness (SLO#2).
• Develop the ability to communicate creatively in real-world setting.
• Identify and describe the geography, culture and people of regions where Spanish is spoken and of Spanish-speakers' contributions to the world cultures.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO1: RECOGNIZE AND DESCRIBE THE FOUR TRADITIONAL LITERARY GENRES AND IDENTIFY REPRESENTATIVE MEXICAN-AMERICAN (CHICANO) AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS.
• Name and identify representative Mexican-American (Chicano) authors and their works.
• Recognize the different Mexican-American (Chicano) literary genres.
• Describe the characteristics of each Mexican-American (Chicano) literary genre.
• SLO2: ANALYZE AND DEMONSTRATE THE SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS OF MEXICAN-AMERICAN (CHICANO) LITERARY WORKS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO MEXICAN-AMERICAN (CHICANO) CULTURE AND SOCIETY.
• Analyze specific Mexican-American (Chicano) literary works.
• Criticize specific Mexican-American (Chicano) literary works.
• Formulate questions about the relationship between society and Mexican-American (Chicano) literature.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO #1: RECOGNIZE, DESCRIBE AND ANALYZE THE FOUR TRADITIONAL LITERARY GENRES AND IDENTIFY REPRESENTATIVE SPANISH-AMERICAN AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS.
• Name, identify and critique representative Spanish-American authors, their literary works and the socio-historical context of their literary productions.
• Criticize specific Spanish-American literary works.
• Recognize the different Spanish-American literary genres.
• Describe the characteristics of each Spanish-American literary genre.
• SLO #2: ANALYZE AND DEMONSTRATE THE SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SPANISH-AMERICAN LITERARY WORKS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO LATIN-AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY.
• Formulate questions about the relationship between society and Spanish-American literature.
• Compose narratives analyzing the relationships between specific literary productions and their socio-historical context.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• UNDERSTAND AND PRODUCE APPROPRIATE RESPONSES IN FAMILIAR SITUATIONS IN THE PROFESSIONAL SETTING (SLO1).
• Demonstrate ability to communicate effectively in a professional situation.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the Spanish speaking culture.
• Demonstrate ability to interview, collect data, give instructions and sustain a logical dialogue with one another or a native speaker.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO #1: Actively engage in intellectual inquiry beyond that required in order to pass a course of study (College Wide Learning Outcome – Area 4).
• Discuss and outline a proposal of study (that can be accomplished within one semester term) with a supervising instructor qualified within the discipline.
• Design an independent study (to be completed individually or by collaboration of a small group) to foster special knowledge, skills, and experience that are not available in any one regularly scheduled course.
• Use information resources to gather discipline-specific information.
• SLO #2: Utilize modes of analysis and critical thinking to apply theoretical perspectives and/or concepts in the major discipline of study to significant problems and/or educational activities (College Wide Learning Outcome – Area 3).
• Analyze and apply the knowledge, skills and experience that are involved in the independent study to theoretical perspectives and/or concepts in the major discipline of study.
• Explain the importance of the major discipline of study in the broader picture of society.
• SLO #3: Communicate a complex understanding of content matter of the major discipline of study (College Wide Outcome – Area 3).
• Demonstrate competence in the skills essential to mastery of the major discipline of study that are necessary to accomplish the independent study.
• SLO #4: Identify personal goals and pursue these goals effectively (College Wide Outcome – Area 4).
• Utilize skills from the “academic tool kit” including time management, study skills, etc., to accomplish the independent study within one semester term.