SPN 3001 - Advanced Spanish

2 lecture hours 2 lab hours 3 credits

• Speak Spanish, correctly pronounced, in an extended and sophisticated manner and with cohesion in the present, past and future in both formal and informal contexts. The linguistic flexibility to speak about and around certain subjects in a way that native speakers of Spanish will understand without difficulty
• Moderate a formal discussion around these or other similar topics
• Write structurally cohesive compositions with a variety of discourse markers
• Present information in a coherent manner (introduction, development of the argument, conclusion)
• Write formal and informal texts using different tones, for different audiences (register), and for different purposes (to inform, to convince, to defend or oppose an idea)
• Develop cultural and technological competency, as well as critical thinking skills, by way of presentations and the discussion of controversial and relevant topics
• Collaborate with classmates to plan and develop different class projects
• Establish connections between a student’s own culture and the rest of the world
• Read and understand texts related to Hispanic culture and the world from varied genres originally written for a native reading public
• Use the Spanish language to participate in Hispanic and Latinx communities at home and around the world

Students completing Advanced 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/Latino 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 Spanish-speaking world
• Read, analyzed, and discussed short stories and poems

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• Talk about history, political beliefs, and ideologies. Discuss the value of ideas
• Talk about the workplace, the economy, marketing, advertising, and the job market
• Talk about science and technology: new inventions, discoveries, and advancements
• Talk about current social issues and problems
• Talk about emotions and feelings
• Express purpose, condition, or intent using the subjunctive
• Make comparisons and express superlatives
• Refer to recently completed actions, or past actions that still bear relevance in the present, using the indicative and subjunctive present perfect
• Refer to actions that had been done or had been occurred before another action in the past using the indicative and subjunctive past perfect
• Express what will have happened at a certain point using the future perfect
• Express supposition or probability regarding a past action using the future perfect
• Express what would have occurred but did not using the conditional perfect
• Express probability or conjecture about the past using the conditional perfect
• Make a hypothetical statement about a possible or likely to occur event, an improbable or contrary-to-fact event, a contrary-to-fact situation in the past, or a habitual, not contrary-to-fact, past action
• Make a passive statement using the passive voice or the passive se