10/30/2025 6:52:03 PM	SPAN 2 Course Outline as of Spring 2019	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  SPAN 2	Title:  ELEMENTARY SPANISH-2
Full Title:  Elementary Spanish-Part 2
Last Reviewed:11/25/2019

Units		Course Hours per Week			Nbr of Weeks	Course Hours Total
Maximum	4.00	Lecture Scheduled	4.00		17.5 max.	Lecture Scheduled	70.00
Minimum	4.00	Lab Scheduled	0		6 min.	Lab Scheduled	0
		Contact DHR	1.00			Contact DHR	17.50
		Contact Total	5.00			Contact Total	87.50
		Non-contact DHR	0			Non-contact DHR Total	0

Total Out of Class Hours:  140.00

Total Student Learning Hours: 227.50

Title 5 Category:  AA Degree Applicable
Grading:  Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:  00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As: 
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Catalog Description:

Part Two of Elementary Spanish, continued introduction to Spanish grammar and development of language skills in a cultural context with special emphasis on communication.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Two years of high school Spanish or SPAN 1

Recommended Preparation:
Eligibility for ENGL 1A or equivalent

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

Part Two of Elementary Spanish, continued introduction to Spanish grammar and development of language skills in a cultural context with special emphasis on communication.

(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:Two years of high school Spanish or SPAN 1
Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 1A or equivalent
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;UC.
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP

ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

Associate Degree:		Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:	Fall 2025
Area:	E L3 E	Humanities Arts and Humanities Humanities
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	C2	Humanities		Fall 1990
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	3B	Humanities		Fall 1981
	6A	Language Other Than English
CSU Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
UC Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
C-ID:
CID Descriptor: SPAN 110	Elementary Spanish II	SRJC Equivalent Course(s): SPAN2 OR SPAN40

Certificate/Major Applicable: Major Applicable Course

COURSE CONTENT

Student Learning Outcomes:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

1.  Initiate and maintain simple conversations about past, present and future activities with

     some degree of spontaneity.       

2.  Express preferences, simple facts, and requests and provide information using

     appropriate language structures, verb tenses, vocabulary and Spanish pronunciation.

3.  Comprehend basic ideas, questions, instructions and requests in Spanish at natural speed.

4.  Identify and interpret the main ideas presented in articles, short narratives and

     poems written in elementary to intermediate Spanish.  

5.  Construct and organize comprehensible written sentences, paragraphs and brief

     compositions using accurate Spanish spelling, accentuation, syntax and cohesive

     elements.

6.  Correctly identify and produce the present, preterite, imperfect and subjunctive

     forms of regular and irregular verbs

7.  Compare and contrast key similarities and differences among the cultures of the

     Spanish-speaking world.

Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:

1.  Formulate sentences and questions and interpret responses to other speakers

      using the most common vocabulary related to personal and general interest topics.

2.  Generate longer statements and connected discourse with some degree of

     spontaneity, referring to past, present and future activities.

3.  Initiate and maintain face to face conversations in Spanish dealing with

      concrete, everyday topics.

4.  Use appropriate Spanish vocabulary to convey information related to food, health, daily

      routine, celebrations, life events, technology, home, auto and domestic chores.

5.  Interpret and analyze passages in Spanish on a range of cultural topics and

      interpret general meaning of authentic Spanish texts.

6.  Develop and organize sentences, paragraphs and page-length texts with minimum

      errors in spelling, accentuation and grammar in Spanish.

7.  Pronounce Spanish words with increased phonetic accuracy and less interference

     from first language.

8.  Construct comprehensible sentences and distinguish accurately between subject,

      object and reflexive pronouns, present, preterite, and imperfect tenses of all regular

      and most common irregular verbs, familiar and formal commands.

9.  Identify and correctly produce the subjunctive of regular and most irregular verbs.

10. Generate compound and complex sentences by using the most common

       conjunctions and cohesive elements.

11. Accurately identify and evaluate the main ideas of a conversation in Spanish

       spoken at a natural speed.

12. Compare and contrast key similarities and differences among the cultures of

       the Spanish-speaking world.

Topics and Scope

1.  Essential vocabulary to include:

   A.  Daily routine and personal hygiene

   B.  Food and meals

   C.  Parties and celebrations, personal relationships and stages of life

   D.  Parts of the body, health and medical terms; symptoms and medical conditions;

          health professions

   E.  Technology and the internet; the car and its accessories

   F.  Parts of a house; household chores; table settings

2.  Reflexives; constructions with se; reciprocal reflexives

3.  Indefinite and negative words

4.  Gustar and verbs like gustar

5.  Irregular preterites; verbs that change meaning in the preterite

6.  Double object pronouns

7.  Saber and conocer

8.  Comparisons and superlatives

9.  Que? and cual?

10. Pronouns after prepositions

11. The imperfect tense

12. The preterite vs the imperfect

13. Adverbs

14. Formal and informal commands

15. Por and para

16. Stressed possessive adjectves and pronouns

17. Relative pronouns

18. The present subjunctive; the subjunctive of will and influence

19. A continuation of listening and reading about demographics, customs, general history

     and geography  pertaining to the Spanish-speaking world and Latin-American

      communities in the U.S.

20. Listening to Spanish spoken at a natural speed

21. Reading and analyzing written texts in Spanish and introductory Spanish and Latin

      American literature

Assignments:

Assignments may include:

1.   Reviewing lesson(s) from the textbook (averaging 15 pages per week)

2.   Memorizing vocabulary and verb conjugations (averaging 75 words per week)

3.   Completing exercises in textbook and workbook (averaging 20-30 exercises per week)

4.   Working on computer-based exercises (17 hours per semester)

5.   Reviewing for quizzes and tests (one hour per week)

6.   Weekly or bi-weekly quizzes, chapter tests and final

7.   Writing 2-4 100-200 word compositions

8.   Oral participation, group activities and projects

9.   Dictation and translation

10. Researching cultural and literary topics

11. Viewing and extracting information from cultural videos or films

12. Participation and class performance

Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.

Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing.		Writing 20 - 30%
Written homework, compositions
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.		Problem Solving 10 - 20%
Group activities, projects
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.		Skill Demonstrations 20 - 30%
Class performances, participation
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.		Exams 30 - 40%
Multiple choice, true/false, matching items, completion
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.		Other Category 5 - 10%
Completion of computer-based exercises.

Representative Textbooks and Materials:

VISTAS by Blanco/Donley (textbook, workbook/lab manual, passcode), Volume 2,  4th ed., Vista Higher Learning, 2012

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