Spanish Conversation Through Film

Catalog description

SPAN 204 is an intermediate course in Spanish. Through the use of Spanish films, this course will provide activities to help student s further develop their Spanish communication skills. The class is designed to offer a framework for conversing in Spanish in a natural manner. The course will emphasize the building of vocabulary through listening and speaking. Secondarily, the course will involve students with reading and writing in Spanish. Several films from the Spanish speaking world will be shown as springboards for conversation, classroom activities and reading and writing assignments. The films will provide students with the opportunity to listen to native-speakers using authentic Spanish and to read and write opinions of the films. Grammar will be taught as the need arises to clarify both oral and written communication. Through viewing and discussing the films used for this class, the cultural and historical backgrounds of various Spanish speaking countries will also be a topic of conversation.