The course is designed to help the student engage in simple conversations on familiar topics, understand the main ideas on a familiar topic in both written and spoken Spanish, and learn how cultural differences affect one's experience of the world. Continued development of proficiency in communication skills. Continues the review of basic structural elements of the Spanish language and provides a context for students to develop consistency in understanding and correct usage as they advance to connected discourse in Spanish. Development of skills required to read for information, to comprehend major ideas, and to analyze different literary forms of average difficulty. Readings are selected from works of Spanish authors from the 12th to the 20th centuries and grouped according to genre.
Class is conducted in Spanish.
Development of speaking and listening skills which enable students to use Spanish correctly and idiomatically in conversation and narration. Students will learn and use functional expressions appropriate to typical Hispanic situations, will prepare and deliver dialogues and brief oral reports, and will engage in impromptu conversations on topics of current public and personal interest. Listening skills include interaction with film, video and audio recordings, as well as with speakers of native ability. Review of the essentials of Spanish grammar with application to composition. The course is designed to help students write social and business correspondence, take notes, write cohesive summaries and resumes, as well as narratives and descriptions of a factual nature.