This class is an introduction to the study of Spanish language that focuses on Spanish grammar components. It reviews basic English grammar and teaches basic Spanish vocabulary and grammar. The course is for those with no previous foreign language study.
Those in business are finding the need to interact more and more with Spanish-speaking customers. To better serve these customers, it is important to have a grasp of Spanish language and culture. This course provides the necessary skills to communicate in Spanish at a beginning level. NOTE: It is strongly recommended that students who have no prior experience in Spanish take SPAN 1110 or place out of SPAN 1110 using the Spanish placement test prior to enrolling in SPAN 1050.
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Students continue to develop the skills in order to communicate at a more advanced level of Spanish in business settings.
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Those in the medical profession are finding that they need to help and serve more Spanish-speaking clients than they have in the past. To serve these clients better it is important that these medical professionals have a grasp of the Spanish language and culture. The course provides the necessary skills to communicate in Spanish at a beginning level. NOTE: It is strongly recommended that students who have no prior experience in Spanish take SPAN 1110 or place out of SPAN 1110 using the Spanish placement test prior to enrolling in SPAN 1060.
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Students continue to focus on the skills begun in Spanish 1060 such that they can communicate with the Spanish clients at a more advanced level.
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This is the first of two introductory courses where students begin to learn the fundamentals of Spanish. It stresses comprehension, pronunciation, speaking, listening, reading, writing, and vocabulary. The course includes nouns, adjectives, and present tense, as well as a study of Spanish-speaking cultures.
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Students continue to focus on the skills begun in SPAN 1110. The course covers past tenses and subjunctive mood, as well as Spanish-speaking cultures.
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This is the first of two courses for students considered to be high beginners in Spanish - people with previous beginning-level coursework in Spanish, heritage speakers, people who understand 50 percent or more of Spanish conversation, and/or people who have strong oral skills in Spanish. The course is for students who are too advanced for SPAN 1110 but who are also not quite prepared for SPAN 1120. It emphasizes grammar, vocabulary acquisition, speaking, listening, and culture. Students focus on development of reading and writing skills. The course includes nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and present, progressive, preterit, and imperfect indicative tenses. This class is conducted in Spanish.
This is the second of two courses for students considered to be high beginners in Spanish. The course is designed for students who are too advanced for SPAN 1110 but who are also not quite prepared for SPAN 2110. It emphasizes grammar, vocabulary acquisition, speaking, listening, and culture. Students focus on development of reading and writing skills. The course includes nouns, pronouns, adjectives, subjunctive mood tenses, commands, perfect indicative and subjective mood tenses, and conditional and future tenses. This class is conducted in Spanish.
This course begins on campus and includes travel to a Spanish-speaking country later in the quarter. Students research the Spanish-speaking country to be visited and present information gathered to peers. The class then visits the cities and monuments of the country. Students use the Spanish acquired in the classroom to communicate in everyday situations in hotels, restaurants, cafes, and on tours, and they are able to try a new type of cuisine and lifestyle. Immersion in the culture enables students to experience diverse cultural practices, culinary habits, music styles, and dance forms.
This course permits instruction in special content areas not included in other Spanish courses. Topics include Spanish for social service personnel and courses examining specific cultures.
This course reinforces the skills learned in SPAN 1050 and 1051. It is taught primarily in Spanish and prioritizes oral communication.
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This course reinforces the skills learned in SPAN 2050. It is taught primarily in Spanish and prioritizes oral communication.
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This course reinforces and expands the skills learned in SPAN 1060 and SPAN 1061. It is taught primarily in Spanish and prioritizes oral communication. (Formerly Intermediate Spanish for Medical Personnel I).
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This course reinforces and expands the skills learned in Intermediate Spanish for Medical Personnel I. It is taught primarily in Spanish and prioritizes oral communication. (Formerly Intermediate Spanish for Medical Personnel II)
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This course builds on previously attained grammar and stresses vocabulary building. It presents the perfect, past subjunctive, future, and conditional tenses as well as commands. It is taught primarily in Spanish.
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This course continues the grammar review of Intermediate Spanish I and introduces literary readings. Classes are conducted in Spanish.
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To truly understand Spanish, one must be comfortable speaking it. This course develops the skills needed to hold a beginning conversation in Spanish. Readings and video presentations on Spanish-speaking culture and civilization are used as topics for class conversations. The class is conducted entirely in Spanish and emphasizes conversation, reading, writing, and comprehension.
This course develops the skills needed to hold an intermediate conversation in Spanish. It uses readings and video presentations on Spanish-speaking culture and civilization for class conversations. It is conducted entirely in Spanish and emphasizes conversation, reading, writing, and comprehension at a high intermediate level.
This course is a general survey of Spanish-American literature. It covers various genres from pre-Columbian literature through present day. Through close critical readings of literary texts, students attempt to discern the relationship of each writer to the particular cultural, political, and historical context and study the means by which the author attempts to articulate the Spanish-American experience and identity through writing.
This course permits instruction in special content areas not included in other Spanish courses. Topics include advanced grammar study, intensive conversation and pronunciation, and period literature. It is taught entirely in Spanish.
This internship provides students with the opportunity to work in a business setting where Spanish is used. It prepares business students to use Spanish in the workplace and/or to expose students to a bilingual/international business setting. To develop an internship to meet their academic and career goals, students must meet with their faculty advisor. Based on state guidelines, students must complete 40 hours of work for each credit hour.
The internship provides the opportunity to work in a medical setting that offers Spanish interpretation experience. To meet academic and career objectives, students must meet with program faculty prior to enrollment. Based on state guidelines, students must complete 40 hours of work for each credit hour. (Formerly Spanish for Medical Personnel Internship)