Students will acquire basic skills in vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, composition and the reading of simplified, but mature Spanish texts. The student will incorporate the learned skills through spoken and written Spanish in the classroom, homework assignments, and computer exercises. Each graded homework is worth the value of one quiz. You may drop two quiz scores at the end of the semester. However, you are responsible for all exercises included in the last seven units of our two texts.
Assignments are due at the beginning of the class period specified.
If a student is asked to leave class for disciplinary reasons and therefore misses a quiz, the grade for this quiz will be a zero and it may not be made up. You will read pages from the web which treat topics of relevance to the Hispanic world. You are required to read 20 minutes of a web page and then to write a brief summary in Spanish. You will e-mail me your summary and I will respond that I have received it. These are certified assignments.