SPN 1001 - Elementary Spanish

2 lecture hours 2 lab hours 3 credits

• Comprehend spoken Spanish with sufficient ability to grasp the main idea and some supporting details in short conversations, both spontaneous and taped, that relate to daily life and represent authentic situations
• Speak Spanish well enough to have short conversations with native speakers about topics such as describing activities and events in the present and past, giving commands, giving advice and recommendations, expressing emotions and feelings, providing or obtaining specific information for survival, as well as being able to talk about customs, pastimes, health, and quality of life
• Read and understand newspaper articles and brief segments taken from various forms of literature that touch on many different topics
• Write a coherent string of sentences with some organization in a paragraph-like format of varying lengths on topics that relate to personal situations and experiences as well as more general topics that deal with world events and situations that occur in daily life
• Acquire new information and reinforce their knowledge of other disciplines through the Spanish language
• Use the Spanish language to participate in Hispanic and Latinx communities at home and around the world

Students completing Elementary Spanish will have

• Gained a deeper knowledge and understanding of the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. They will be more acquainted with the places where Spanish is spoken, will have explored some of the main cultural, social, and historical events of the Hispanic world, and will have increased their awareness of the U.S. Hispanic/Latinx communities
• Developed new insights into the nature of language and culture that will allow them to establish comparisons not only between languages, but also between the Hispanic and Latinx cultures and their own

• No previous knowledge of Spanish is required to register
• The course is not open to those with previous college study of Spanish, more than four years of high school Spanish, or a high language placement score

• Narrating in the present and in the past
• Explaining sensations and feelings
• Giving advice and suggesting solutions
• Evaluating language learning activities
• Evaluating activities
• Expressing likes and dislikes
• Describing personalities
• Exchanging information about leisure activities
• Planning activities and making appointments
• Making recommendations
• Talking about wellness and illness
• Talking about shapes, parts and uses
• Talking about the city: places, signs, directions, people, activities, etc.
• Evaluating proposals and suggestions
• Debating advantages and disadvantages
• Giving and taking the floor
• Initiating and closing a conversation
• Expressing opinions and making arguments
• Describing relationships
• Expressing emotion and talking about people
• Giving information while expressing uncertainty, researching cultures and reacting to discoveries
• Expressing agreement and disagreement
• Temporal markers
• Talking about frequency
• Present tense of regular and irregular verbs
• Demonstrative adjective and pronouns
• Reflexive verbs
• Talk about the future
• Present progressive
• Preterit of regular and irregular verbs
• Imperfect of regular and irregular verbs