SPA Course Descriptions

SPA1001 Introduction to Spanish I (3)
Introduces the language and culture of the Spanish-speaking world. Students develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills, with emphasis on communication and introduction to the culture of the Spanish-speaking world. Increasing use of the Internet opens up new worlds to the beginning language student.

SPA1008 Introduction to Spanish II (3)
Prerequisite: SPA1001 or equivalent
Continuation of SPA 1001.

SPA1016 Intermediate Spanish I (3)
Prerequisite: SPA1008 or equivalent, and/or Placement Test
Students will continue developing their Spanish skills by reading, writing, researching, and conversing about actual issues facing a diverse community.  Students will apply their learning in community-based learning activities that correspond to the focus of the class.  Taking SP196 concurrently for one additional credit of community-based learning, which may also apply as one career development unit, is optional but highly recommended.

SPA1024 Intermediate Spanish II (3)
Continuation of Intermediate Spanish I.

SPA2100 Advanced Spanish Composition and Grammar Review (3)
Prerequisite: SPA1024 or equivalent, and/or Placement Test
Building on preceding foundation courses, this course provides a guided development of writing skills in Spanish along with a review of grammatical structures which generally need special attention at this level.

SPA2106 Spanish Conversation Through Theatre(3)
Prerequisite: Two years of college Spanish or its equivalent such as completion of SPA1024 Intermediate Spanish II, speaking Spanish at home, or by permission of the instructor.
ACTivate your Spanish through reading, discussing and acting out One-Act plays from some of the best known playwrights from the Spanish speaking world. Emphasis is on improving your oral skills in Spanish while learning about theatre written in Spanish from Latin America, Spain and the USA. Banish your inhibitions and have fun discovering how much you can communicate in Spanish after all.

SPA2108 Advanced Spanish: La herencia cultural de latinoamérica [CDiv] (3)
Prerequisite: SPA2100 or SPA2124 or equivalent and/or Placement Test
Taught in Spanish, this course gives a panoramic view of the culture and history of Latin America through journalistic and literary readings and film, not only in textbook form but also through the reading of daily newspapers via the Internet from countries all over the Spanish speaking world.

SPA2116 Spanish Conversation through Film (3)
Prerequisite: SPA1024 or equivalent, and/or Placement Test
Students have the opportunity to view films in Spanish, produced and directed in Spanish speaking countries. Conversation in Spanish follows on the issues raised regarding a variety of contemporary themes of relevance to recent developments.

SPA2124 Spanish for a Bilingual World: Community Service and Business [CDiv] (3)
Prerequisites: SPA1024 (i.e., 4th semester or equivalent) and basic fluency
This course is intended to help and prepare those who are working in community service agencies and offices where they are expected to perform a variety of tasks in Spanish for non-English speaking clients and patients. Assignments will focus on the writing of memos, e-mail, letters, reports, and filling out forms, interpreting and translating in role play situations, addressing groups in Spanish, and eliciting information. The content of the class will be tailored to the areas in which students either are or expect to be working during their internships and community service work. Visits to local agencies and companies will be included, where possible.

SPA2178 Community-Based Learning (1)

Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in SPA1016 or SPA1024 or approval of the instructor

Students will organize lessons, maintain records, develop evaluation procedures and teach an English as a Second Language class on the NDNU campus.  The ESL cafeteria class is offered Wednesday afternoons from 3:30-4:30 with students devoting an additional hour, 30 minutes before and after, for coordination of lessons and reflection.

SPA2994 Teaching Assistant (1-3)
Advanced undergraduate Spanish students, through classroom observation, tutoring, and some teaching, are shown the techniques used in foreign language instruction. May be used as upper-division units in the minor.

SPA2999 Independent Study in Spanish (1-3)
Provides an opportunity for independent study or research in Latin American Studies under the direction of the instructor.