The main purpose of this course is to prepare students to write functionally in Spanish , so that they go out into thier professional lives with solid and practical writing skills. Specifically, students will learn how to write formal and informal correspondence, reports, summaries, vocabulary build-up, simple and complex sentence linking, and structured extended discourse. Students will simply follow instructions on class content, assignments, and tests. 3 Modules are organized around specific objectives outcome assessment criteria. Thus, Week I starts on Monday, August 31 and ends on Friday, September 4, etc.
Students are responsible for keeping soft and hard copies of their works.
Just as the written word is not merely a reflection of the spoken word, writing is a set of skills that must be learned separately from speaking. To reinforce this assumption, we include writing samples that demosntrate particular skills and techniques for students to integrate into their own written styles. The samples are springboards that guide the students in developing their own written language. At this level the building of practical writing skills in Spanish is as important as learning more scholarly types of writing. Our intent is to give students the opportunity to produce the kinds of writing that they will very likely need in their daily social or business lives in an increasingly bilingual world.