Beginners' Spanish A

Description

This is a course designed to offer students the opportunity to acquire initial knowledge of the Spanish language as well as the appreciation of different Hispanic cultures. This paper is a half-year beginning language course that assumes no prior knowledge or experience with Spanish. The course is based on the communicative approach to language learning: All four of the basic communication skills will be developed and students will practice reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. The overall emphasis is on realistic situations that could prove useful in a practical sense to students. Since reading and writing can be practiced outside of the classroom, class time will be devoted mainly to listening and speaking activities.  

Course Objectives:
1. Understand the main idea and most of the supporting details of spoken and written Spanish  
  geared for university students of Spanish on current affairs and topics related to students’ daily
  life;
2. Speak in complete sentences about familiar topics with sufficient grammatical accuracy;
3. Read edited articles with an understanding of the main ideas and most of the supporting details;
4. Write brief and coherent paragraphs on a familiar topic with sufficient grammatical
  accuracy as to be understood by a native speaker of Spanish;
5. Understand significant cultural traits (i.e., lifestyles, attitudes, customs, and geography).