SPN 1120 - Elementary Spanish I

Communications Department

Credit(s): 4
Contact Hours: 62
Effective Term Fall 2017 (535)

Course Description

This course introduces students to the four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) of the Spanish language and teaches students to appreciate the cultures of Spanish speaking countries. Study Abroad opportunities may apply to this course (https://blog.spcollege.edu/international/study-abroad/). (Note: Credit is only given for SPN 1120 or SPN 1120H.)

Course Topics

Topic 1
  Study Abroad - Ecuador
Topic 2
  Study Abroad - Spain
Topic 3
  Study Abroad - Costa Rica

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. The student, by using listening skills, will identify short utterances by:
    1. recognizing the meaning of short sentences including simple questions and statements, high-frequency commands, courtesy formulae, basic personal information, and immediate physical setting.
    2. summarizing audible speech with some repetition.
  2. The student, by using speaking skills, will produce oral expressions consisting of isolated words and learned phrases within predictable areas of need by:
    1. repeating words and short phrases.
    2. using vocabulary relating to simple, elementary needs.
    3. pronouncing in a comprehensible manner.
  3. The student, by using reading skills, will identify a limited number of highly contextualized words and/or phrases by:
    1. underlining a limited number of cognates, borrowed words and words supported by context.
    2. rephrasing messages, phrases, and expressions consisting in learned vocabulary.
    3. interpreting some items on cultural documents, such as menus, schedules, maps, timetables, and signs.
  4. The student will demonstrate the simple fixed expressions and limited memorized material and some recombination thereof by:
    1. writing short sentences.
    2. supplying information on simple forms and documents.
    3. producing written material from memory.
    4. employing comprehensible grammar and spelling.
  5. The student will demonstrate awareness of basic aspects of Spanish culture by:
    1. describing typical Hispanic foods, holidays, geography, history, politics, styles of living, leisure activities, student life, the cafe, and the arts.
    2. identifying the cultural trades and relationships between culture and language.

Criteria Performance Standard

Upon successful completion of the course the student will, with a minimum 70 percent accuracy, demonstrate mastery of each of the above stated objectives through classroom measures developed by individual instructors.

History of Changes

Revised 8/10/83 Revised 11/84 DBT 5/19/88 SCN Change 7/12/88 Effective Session 19981 DBT 11/17/88 DBT 5/18/89 Effective Session 19891 3YR C&I Review 1993-94. C&I 11/24/98; DBT 12/14/98 Effective Session II, 98-99. Online. Eff 20032. 3 Year Review 2007. C&I Approval: 09/09/2003, BOT Approval: 10/23/2003, Effective Term: Fall 2007 (385).
C&I Approval: , BOT Approval: , Effective Term: Fall 2017 (535)

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