Spanish - Intermediate Spanish Language and Culture 2
Intermediate Spanish Language and Culture 2 (SPAN 2100)
Total Credits:
5
Lecture Credits:
5.00
Description:
Spanish 2100 is a follow-up to Spanish 2000. You will practice writing, reading, speaking and listening skills in preparation for the examination. You will receive skill evaluations from the final examination sequence based upon the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) standards. You will develop greater comfort and fluency if you have previously studied most of Spanish grammar and can already communicate simple ideas and narrate simple information in past, present and future tenses. You will practice difficult structures such as the use of object pronouns, subjunctive mood, adverbial conjunctions, hypothetical and future structures. You will develop communicative skills by the expansion of vocabulary, as well as idiomatic expressions. You will learn to "talk around" unknown vocabulary, express opinions, support them and engage in discussion and argument. This course satisfies MnTC Global Perspective requirements through readings, lectures, writing exercises, discussions and other presentation media, giving you a useful cultural, historical, sociological and literary insight into the various peoples who speak Spanish throughout the world. Contact the Spanish Department at 612-659-6444 for more information.
Topical Outline:
Learning Outcomes:
1. 1. Gain increased proficiency in the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing)
2. 2. Appreciate wide range of works of literature, philosophy, and the arts – contemporary as well as traditional – within the target language
3. 3. Gain an understanding of these works within their cultural, historical, geographical, political, and social context, with emphasis on cultural behavior, ideas, and values
4. 4. Interpret these works in the target language and in terms of culture being studied, providing cross-cultural understanding, appreciation, and comparison
5. 5. Gain an increased understanding of history, political science, art, and music of the target culture through the target language, analyzing specific issues in a global context, focusing on alternative ways of considering problems and proposing solutions
6. 6. Create original works in the target language which stimulate the creative process, using synthesis, and analysis in the interpretive process
Prerequisites:
SPAN 2000 or equivalent.
MnTC: