Course Syllabus
Athabasca University
Spanish (SPAN) 300
Second Year Spanish I
This version of SPAN 300 closed. To current version.
Delivery mode: Individualized study with audio and video components.
Credits: 3 - Humanities
Prerequisite: SPAN 201 or Span 30 (third year senior high school Spanish) or equivalent.
Precluded course: None
Centre: Centre for Language and Literature
Télé-université du Québec
SPAN 300 has a Challenge for Credit option.
Overview
SPAN 300 consists of four integrated components: grammar, vocabulary, culture, and literature. The course reviews and further develops basic language skills acquired in First Year Spanish. The emphasis is on learning grammar structures and on vocabulary acquisition. The objective of SPAN 300 is to strengthen both written and oral skills that will enable students to communicate in a variety of contexts. Each lesson of the main textbook ¡Continuemos! is integrated with the laboratory component of the course. The literary component consists of excerpts and short stories which are read mainly for aesthetic pleasure, comprehension, and vocabulary acquisition. Students are not expected to do any literary analysis exercises in this course.
Outline
Students acquire written and oral practice in each unit of SPAN 300 by doing many written and oral exercises not listed in this outline.
Unit 1
- Reading: Sobre la educación
- Grammar: El presente de indicativo de verbos irregulares
Usos de ser y estar
El presente de indicativo de verbos con cambios en la raíz
La a personal - Culture: Lecturas periodísticas: Busco profesión
Teleinforme
Literary readings
Unit 2
- Reading: De vacaciones
- Grammar: Adjetivos posesivos
Pronombres posesivos
El presente progresivo
Formas pronominales en función de complemento directo - Culture: Lecturas periodísticas: Costa Rica, la Suiza de América
Teleinforme
Literary readings
Unit 3
- Reading: De compras
- Grammar: Usos y omisiones de los artículos definidos e indefinidos
Formas pronominales en función de complemento indirecto
El pretérito
Verbos que cambian en el pretérito - Culture: Lecturas periodísticas: Porcelanas Lladró, aporte artístico español en los Estados Unidos
Teleinforme
Literary readings
Unit 4
- Reading: Hablando de arte
- Grammar: El imperfecto El pretérito contrastado con el imperfecto
Verbos que requieren una construcción especial
Pronombres de complemento directo e indirecto usados juntos - Culture: Lecturas periodísticas: Panorama cultural Teleinforme
Literary readings
Unit 5
- Reading: En un restaurante
- Grammar: Construcciones reflexivas
Comparativos de igualdad y desigualdad
Los pronombres relativos
Usos de las preposiciones por y para - Culture: Lecturas periodísticas: Madrid: sus olores y sus regiones urbano-gastronómicas
Teleinforme
Literary readings
Unit 6
- Reading: La salud y la nutrición
- Grammar: El modo subjuntivo
El subjuntivo con verbos o expresiones de voluntad o deseo
El subjuntivo con verbos y expresiones impersonales de emoción
El imperativo: Ud. y Uds. - Culture: Lecturas periodísticas: Táctica y estrategias de la pérdida de peso Teleinforme Literary readings
Evaluation
To receive credit for SPAN 300, you must achieve a course composite grade of at least "D" (50 percent) and a grade of at least 50 percent on the written examination. The weighting of the composite grade is as follows:
| 6 Written Exercises | 5 Oral Exercises | 2 Essays (5% each) | Oral Exam | Written Exam | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15% | 10% | 10% | 15% | 50% | 100% |
To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.
Course Materials
Textbooks
Ana C. Jarvis, Raquel Lebredo, Francisco Mena-Ayllón. 1995. ¡Continuemos! 5th ed. D. C. Heath and Company.
Ana C. Jarvis, Raquel Lebredo. 1995. Workbook/Laboratory Manual for ¡Continuemos! 5th ed. D. C. Heath and Company.
Ana C. Jarvis, Raquel Lebredo, Francisco Mena-Ayllón. 1995. Aventuras literarias. 4th ed. D. C. Heath and Company.
Other materials
The course materials include a student manual and an assignment manual.
Special Course Feature
Six audiotapes to be used as a laboratory component of the course in conjunction with the Workbook/Laboratory Manual; a videotape with the Teleinforme section for each lesson of ¡Continuemos!, and an audiotape with selected readings from Aventuras literarias .