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Official Course Syllabi 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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SPAN 1460 - Elementary Spanish 1

Credit Hours: 4.00


Prerequisites: None

(formerly SPAN 1260)

This course is designed to introduce students to the Spanish speaking world and Spanish vocabulary and grammatical structures necessary to express personal meaning on basic topics. Students will engage in these activities within contextualized cultural settings. The vocabulary and grammatical structures are integrated into interactive and communicative activities that emphasize all four language skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Students are required to use computer based technology to practice these skills.

Contact Hours: 4
Billable Contact Hours: 4
OUTCOMES AND OBJECTIVES
Outcome 1:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate competency in basic oral language skills.

Objectives:

  1. Pronounce individual sounds, including appropriate intonation and stress, with little or no interference in order to be understood by a Native Speaker.
  2. Form and produce entire sentences with no hesitation and natural pauses.
  3. Engage in small conversations with a Native Speaker in the present and future tense about the following topics (includes both initiating conversations as well as responding appropriately to speech of a Native Speaker):
    1. Getting acquainted.
    2. Give and receive information about time, schedule, work, school, weather.
    3. Make phone calls.
    4. Express ownership and relationships.
    5. Describe people and feelings.
    6. Handle social situations such as sports events.
    7. Plan a vacation.

Outcome 2:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the ability to use basic Spanish vocabulary.

Objectives:
Regarding topics such as school, work, free time, vacation, transportation, city places, family, social interactions, professions, and weather expressions:

  1. Use vocabulary when speaking.
  2. Respond to a Native Speaker who has used the vocabulary.
  3. Use vocabulary in writing.
  4. Demonstrate reading comprehension skills by discussing subject matter and/or answering questions based on the passage read.

Outcome 3:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the ability to use basic grammar structures in speaking and writing.

Objectives:

  1. Conjugate regular, irregular, and stem changing present tense verbs.
  2. Use ordinal and cardinal numbers.
  3. Use present progressive verb forms.
  4. Use ser vs. estar, as appropriate.
  5. Use nouns and articles.
  6. Use descriptive and possessive adjectives and article agreements.
  7. Formulate questions and answers.
  8. Use saber vs. conocer, as appropriate.

Outcome 4:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to recognize and discuss aspects of Spanish culture.

Objectives:

  1. Recognize and discuss some basic geographical, economical and cultural aspects of some Spanish speaking countries and/or communities such education, sports, and leisure activities, dances and music, food, and family relationship and professions.
  2. Compare cultural differences.

COMMON DEGREE OUTCOMES
(Bulleted outcomes apply to the course)

  • 1. The graduate can integrate the knowledge and technological skills necessary to be a successful learner.
  • 2. The graduate can demonstrate how to think competently.
  • 3. The graduate can demonstrate how to employ mathematical knowledge.
  • 4. The graduate can demonstrate how to communicate competently.
  • 5. The graduate is sensitive to issues relating to a diverse, global society.

COURSE CONTENT OUTLINE
  1. Lesson 1
    Preparation: BASIC greetings and farewells, Introductions, Courtesy expressions
    Video: All aboard!
    Pronunciation: the Spanish alphabet
    Exploration: The greetings
  2. Grammar
    Nouns and articles
    Numbers 0‐30
    Present tense of ser (to be)
  3. Telling time
    Extension
    Reading: Important phone numbers and email addresses
    Exam on Lesson 1
  4. Lesson 2: Classes
    Preparation: Places and courses at the university, Things and people at the university, Days of the week
    Pronunciation: Spanish vowels
    Video: What classes are you taking?
    Exploration: the universities in the Spanish speaking world
  5. Grammar
    Present indicative of -ar verbs
    Forming questions in Spanish
    The present tense of estar (to be)
    Numbers 31‐100
  6. Extension
    Reading: UAM: the best university of Europe
    Hispanic countries: The United States and Canada
    Exam on Lesson 2
  7. Lesson 3: The family
    Preparation: Family relationships, Professions
    Pronunciation: Diphthongs and linking
    Video: Is your family big?
    Exploration: the family in the Hispanic world
  8. Grammar
    Descriptive adjectives
    Possessive adjectives
    Present tense of regular -er and -ir verbs
    Present tense of tener (to have) and venire (to come)
  9. Extension
    Reading: families of all type
    Exam on Lesson 3
    MIDTERM
  10. Lesson 4: The weekend
    Preparation: Pastimes, Sports, Places in the city
    Pronunciation: Words stress
    Video; Let’s go to the park!
    Exploration: Soccer: passion of multitudes
  11. Grammar
    Present tense of ir (to go)
    Stem changing verbs: e to ie, o to ue
    Stem changing verbs: e to i
    Verbs with irregular I forms
  12. Extension
    Reading: Guid e for the weekend
    Hispanic countries: México
    Exam on Lesson 4
  13. Lesson 5: Vacations
    Preparation: Words rela ted to vacation and lodging, Weather expressions, Activities and words related to transportation, Seasons and months,
    Ordinal numbers
    Pronunciation: Spanish b and v
    Video: We have a reservation
    Exploration: The lodging
  14. Grammar
    To be (estar) with conditions and emotions
    The present progressive Comparing Ser and Estar (to be and to be)
    Direct object nouns and pronouns
  15. Extension
    Reading: Disco ver the Old San Juan!
    Exam on Lesson 5
  16. FINAL EXAM Week
    First session of the week: WRITTEN exam
    Second session of the week: ORAL exam

Primary Faculty
Williams, Susanna
Secondary Faculty
Ramos, Maria
Associate Dean
Ternullo, Annette
Dean
Pritchett, Marie



Official Course Syllabus - Macomb Community College, 14500 E 12 Mile Road, Warren, MI 48088



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