<p><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt">This course is designed to introduce students to a series of readings, conversation, grammar review, and directed compositions.</span> Upon completion of the course, students will be able to reach the following objectives:</p><div align="center"> <table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="89"> <p style="text-align:center; text-autospace:none" align="center"><strong>Interpretive Listening</strong></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="89"> <p style="text-align:center" align="center"><strong>Interpretive Reading</strong></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="89"> <p style="text-align:center" align="center"><strong>Interpersonal Speaking</strong></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="89"> <p style="text-align:center" align="center"><strong>Presentational Speaking</strong></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="89"> <p style="text-align:center" align="center"><strong>Presentational Writing</strong></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="89"> <p>I can understand extended speech and follow complex lines of argument provided the topic is reasonably familiar. I can understand sources such as TV news, current affairs programs, and films in standard language.</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="89"> <p>I can read texts such as articles and reports that are concerned with contemporary problems written from a particular viewpoint or perspective. I can understand contemporary literary prose.</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="89"> <p>I can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible. I can take an active part in discussion in familiar contexts and support my views.</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="89"> <p>I can present clear, detailed descriptions on a wide range of subjects. I can explain a viewpoint on a topical issue and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="89"> <p>I can write clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects related to my interests. I can write texts such as an essay or report that conveys information or gives reasons in support of or against a particular point of view. I can write texts such as letters highlighting the personal significance of events and experiences.</p> </td> </tr> </table></div><p><em>Goals for Cultural Competence</em></p><p>The goals for cultural competence are not organized hierarchically as are the linguistic goals for the course. By the end of the semester, I will be able to say that I can:</p><ul> <li>Identify, discuss, and analyze such intangible products of the culture I am studying, as social, economic, and political institutions, and explore relationships among these institutions and the perspectives of the culture;</li> <li>Give examples of social behaviors that express the target cultures underlying value system;</li> <li>Interpret social phenomena within the context of the target culture;</li> <li>Describe instances of major change within the culture I am studying.</li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>Textbook(s)</strong></p><p><em>Como agua para Chocolate. </em>Laura Esquivel. Random House, Inc., New York, 1992.<br /></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial"><em>Repase y escriba: Curso avanzado de gramática y composición</em>. (5th ed.). Dominicis & Reynolds. (2006). John Wiley & Sons. Hoboken, NJ. </span></p> <p> </p>
SPANISH 140 – Practical Speaking and Writing