SPN 2001 - Intermediate 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 extended conversations, both spontaneous and taped, that relate to daily life and represent authentic situations
• Speak Spanish with ease and confidence when dealing with everyday routine tasks and will have the skills to participate in conversations requiring an exchange of basic information related to topics such as describing activities and events in the present, past, and future, giving commands, giving advice and recommendations, expressing emotions and feelings, providing or obtaining specific information, as well as being able to talk about customs, pastimes, health, and quality of life
• Read and understand selections of texts taken from a variety of genres about different topics related to the Spanish-speaking world
• Write essays that vary in length 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
• Use the Spanish language to participate in Hispanic and Latinx communities at home and around the world

Students completing Intermediate Spanish will have:

• Gained a deeper knowledge and understanding of the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world and become more acquainted with the places where Spanish is spoken
• Increased their awareness of the U.S. Hispanic/Latinx communities, through readings, videos, and classroom discussions
• Watched and analyzed authentic TV clips from different countries and regions in Latin America, the Caribbean, and/or Spain
• Watched, analyzed, and discussed films from different Spanish-speaking countries, displaying different dialects and varieties of the Spanish language
• Developed the cultural knowledge to understand the context and background of these films
• Explored some of the main cultural, social, and historical events of the Hispanic speaking world
• Read, analyzed, and discussed short stories and poems

• None

• Talk about media (cinema, television, press, etc.) and their influence on everyday life
• Talk about sports and leisure
• Talk about personal relationships: marital status, emotional states, personalities, relationships, feelings, etc.
• Talk about professions, work, and experience
• Talk about consumption and the environment: nature, animal world, ecology, natural phenomena, recycling, sustainable practices, etc.
• Moderate a formal discussion around these or other similar topics
• Express actions or situations that are going on at the present time, general truths, habitual actions, and actions that will take place in the near future using the present tense
• Describe inherent, expected qualities, temporary or variable qualities, and changes in appearance or condition using ser and estar
• Narrate past events and describe past actions and states using the preterit and the imperfect
• Express will and exert influence using the subjunctive
• Express doubt and denial using the subjunctive
• Give advice using both formal and informal commands, and the subjunctive
• Describe objects and people using relative clauses with indicative and subjunctive verb forms
• Talk about the future
• Express conjecture or probability using the future and the conditional
• Talk about future and past hypothetical events and situations
• Make polite requests
• Direct and indirect object pronouns
• Preterit and imperfect
• Commands
• Conditional sentences
• Constructions with “se”
• Present perfect
• Future
• Present subjunctive
• Conditional
• Relative clauses with indicative/subjunctive
• Adverbial clauses with subjunctive/indicative (time and purpose)