Welcome to SPA 201. This is an intermediate level course designed for students who have successfully completed SPA 102 or who are admitted by placement testing (completed an equivalent level in HS).  If you are uncertain about your placement at this level, please talk to your Spanish instructor.

ABOUT THE COURSE

SPA 201 is a proficiency-based course that reviews understanding of the formal structures of language, refines previously acquired linguistic skills and builds cultural awareness.  Authentic cultural and literary texts are introduced. This is a 4-credit course. The class is conducted entirely in Spanish.

Course Objectives

• This course will allow students to expand on a variety of concrete topics, to explain, compare, describe and narrate in the present, past, and future times in the context of connected discourse, and to use diverse language strategies to deal with complicated situations.
• The course will review and recycle essential syntax and will spiral contexts for vocabulary enrichment. Grammar, vocabulary, and other information are presented and practiced allowing students to carry out specific functions (e.g. narration in the past, present description etc.) and not as an end in themselves. 
• Authentic readings, both literary and informational, and sophisticated cultural materials will be introduced.
• The focus of the course will be the systematic development of Advanced level skills, according to the ACTFL proficiency guidelines. 

Communicative Objectives

• giving and getting information
• surviving predictable and complicated situations
• narrating and describing in present, past and future time.

Learning Objectives 

• By the end of the course, it is expected that students will consistently speak, understand, read and write within the Intermediate-Mid range on the ACTFL scale, but with emerging evidence of Advanced level skills.

SPA 201 COURSE MATERIALS

It is expected that students use the following materials to succeed in this course. The textbook includes a code for the Student Manual + SuperSite Plus, which is required for this course. Students DO NOT have to purchase a hard copy of the textbook.

Required Text and Material:

• IMAGINA: español sin barreras, Curso intermedio de lengua española, 3rd edición. Blanco, Tocaimaza-Hatch, Vista Higher Learning 2019. 
• IMAGINA Student Activities Manual Vista Higher Learning.

GRADING CRITERIA

No assignments will be curved

(The grade of Incomplete is granted only by petition to the Department.)