Beginning Spanish II

Catalog description

A continuation of beginning Spanish language skills to build language proficiency and accuracy through communicative activities. This course encourages active interaction with one another in the target language as students continue to develop interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational skills. The course also introduces the many peoples and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world, prompting comparisons with their own culture. Class lectures and discussions are conducted in Spanish in order to build communicative competence. Prerequisite: SPA 117 or equivalent, or permission of the Foreign Language Department as students may not self-place in a language course. Students who have taken 2 years of Spanish in high school with minimum grades of C should plan on beginning in SPA 118, unless placed into a higher level by the placement test.