Intensive Beginning Spanish - SPA 115 at Northern Virginia Community College
https://courses.vccs.edu./colleges/nova/courses/SPA115-IntensiveBeginningSpanish
Effective: 2024-08-01
Course Description
Develops cultural awareness, listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills and emphasizes basic sentence structure in Spanish. Covers the material in SPA 101 and 102 in an accelerated one-semester format for students who have had previous Spanish instruction or exposure but who are not ready for SPA 201 (Intermediate Spanish I).
Lecture 4 hours. Total 4 hours per week.
4 credits
The course outline below was developed as part of a statewide standardization process.
General Course Purpose
Students will continue to develop proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Spanish while gaining an awareness and appreciation of Hispanic cultures.
Course Prerequisites/Corequisites
Prerequisite: Placement test or alternative assessment
Course Objectives
- Written Communication
- Develop, convey, and exchange comprehensible ideas in the target language.
- Professional Readiness
- Collaborate with others and continue to use the target language and cultural behaviors to communicate appropriately in personal and professional settings at a basic level.
Major Topics to be Included
- Interpersonal Skills
- Show evidence of the ability to engage in simple conversation, ask discreet questions that initiate conversation, and use high frequency words in interpersonal communications.
- Communicate in spontaneous spoken or written conversations on familiar topics.
- Employ some or all the following strategies to maintain communication: Use facial expressions, repeat words, ask for repetition, and/or indicate lack of understanding.
- Demonstrate intercultural competency
- Interpretive Skills
- Comprehend main ideas and identify supporting evidence.
- Comprehend information in a variety of familiar contexts from authentic texts that are spoken or written.
- Begin to derive meaning from structural patterns used in both familiar and new contexts.
- Presentational Skills
- Present relevant/prepared written and oral evidence of the ability to express one?s thoughts and preferences.
- Demonstrate intercultural competency