Beginning Foreign Language Courses
 
    
 

 

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This course helps the student develop the ability to converse, read and write in Spanish.   Includes essentials of pronunciation, vocabulary, idioms and grammatical structures along with an introduction to Hispanic culture  This course is intended for students without previous exposure to Spanish.
(72 hours lecture;      Degree appropriate, CSU, UC)

Course Measurable Objectives:

  1. Demonstrate comprehension of spoken and written learned material about basic topics.
  2. Make use of conversations to provide and obtain information about basic topics, using learned material.
  3. Express information about themselves and basic topics to an audience of classmate listeners.
  4. Write at novice level, for example, make lists and compose short stories and dialogues.
  5. Demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of Spanish and English (or their own language).
  6. Demonstrate comprehension of some basic differences between native language structures and target language structures.
  7. Demonstrate comprehension of some basic cultural differences between their own and Hispanic culture.

 
 
    
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