SPAN 1300 - Spanish Conversation I

Credit Hours: 3
Contact Hours - Lecture: 3
This is a conversational Spanish course for beginners. It includes extensive comprehension, oral practice, and use of multimedia materials. It is intended to develop basic communication skills for the student to apply these skills to everyday life and work situation. It is an alternate track for the student who needs immediate communicative experience in Spanish. CIP Code: (1609055413)
Prerequisite: College Level Readiness in Reading AND Writing
Student Learning Outcomes
1 - Understand most basic spoken Spanish. 2 - To develop skills and coping strategies for filling in the gaps of imperfect comprehension. 3 - To ask and answer questions on a variety of everyday topics, describe people and places, narrate recurring (present) events, and achieve some ability in narrating past events. 4 - To perform many daily routines, such as making phone calls, greeting and departing. 5 - To read almost any simple material, and will have gained some experience in reading materials written for the native-speaking reader. 6 - To gain a wealth of cultural knowledge and awareness about areas of the world in which Spanish is spoken.