SPAN 1210 - Elementary Spanish I

Fall, summer. 4 credits.

Prerequisite: students with no previous knowledge of Spanish, up to two years of high school Spanish, LPS score 37 or lower, or SAT II 370 or lower. Class meets five times a week: four class sessions and one lecture.

Fall: B. Teutli (course coordinator) and staff.

Using an integrated approach, this two-course sequence develops listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in a cultural context. The course meet five times a week, with four class sessions and one lecture. Class sessions are in Spanish, and the language is actively used in communicative and creative activities. Students develop writing skills through compositions and read short cultural and literary texts to foster vocabulary acquisition and improve reading strategies. Lectures introduce and clarify grammatical structures. After 1210 students may take SPAN 1120 (fall) or SPAN 1220 (spring).