Spanish - Intermediate Spanish Language and Culture 1
Intermediate Spanish Language and Culture 1 (SPAN 2000)
Total Credits:
5
Lecture Credits:
5.00
Description:
Spanish 2000 is a follow-up to the Beginning Spanish sequence. It can also be a review for students with two years previous high school experience. You will build upon vocabulary, review grammar and learn further subtleties of Spanish syntax and idiomatic expressions. This course may be useful for native speakers interested in learning grammatical concepts and terminology for teaching Spanish to English-speakers. You will review present tense, past tense and subjunctive verb conjugation. You will develop communicative skills or techniques necessary for summarizing, paraphrasing, interpreting and narrating. This course satisfies MnTC Global Perspective requirements by providing readings, lectures, writing exercises, discussions and other presentation media in order to give students useful cultural, historical, sociological and literary insight into the various peoples who speak Spanish throughout the world.
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. Gain an understanding of these works within their cultural, historical, geographical, political, and social context, with emphasis on cultural behavior, ideas, and values
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 1100 or equivalent, or two years of high school Spanish with a grade of 'C' or higher, or instructor approval.
MnTC: