Undergraduate Course Synopses

Pre-requisite:

Nobody who has taken two or more years of Spanish in secondary school will receive credit for taking Spanish 101. Even if you have managed to register for this course now, it will not count towards the total number of credits required to graduate.

Course Objectives:

This course aims to help students acquire communication skills in both oral and written Spanish through the interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational modes. Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:

1. Comprehend spoken Spanish with sufficient ability to grasp the main idea and some supporting details in short conversations, both spontaneous and taped, that relate to daily life and represent authentic situations.
2. Speak Spanish well enough to have short conversations with native speakers about topics such as describing activities and events in the past, giving commands, giving advice and recommendations, expressing emotions and feelings, providing or obtaining specific information for survival, as well as being able to talk about customs, pastimes, health, and quality of life.
3. Read and understand newspaper articles, classified ads, and brief segments taken from various forms of literature that touch on many different topics.
4. Write a coherent string of sentences with some organization in a paragraph -like format of varying lengths on topics that relate to personal situations and experiences as well as more general topics that deal with world events and situations that occur in daily life. Because students are creating with language rather than relying on memorized phrases patterns of errors will begin to appear.

Note:

Synopses are intended to give students a general overview of the courses. Instructors will provide students with additional course-specific information , including attendance/make-up policies, assignment/test scheduling and instructor contact information in the syllabus to be distributed the first day of classes. Textbooks for courses are subject to change. Please speak with or email your instructor for textbook information before purchasing.

Required course materials:

• DICHO Y HECHO: EN VIVO By Potowski, Sobral & Dawson (Edition 9th/ En vivo 2013 Publisher: Wiley & Sons), ISBN: 9781118970188
• Sakai’s Spanish course page; https://sakai.rutgers.edu/portal
• A good bilingual dictionary such as The University of Chicago Spanish Dictionary, Oxford New Spanish Dictionary or Harper Collins Spanish Dictionary

Grade Evaluation:

**Please note that this course includes 2 hourly exams, and a final exam, all scheduled according to University regulations. The course adheres to a strict attendance policy (details on full syllabus).