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COMPTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE COURSE OUTLINE

Course Number SPAN 2 Division ESL and Foreign Languages

Course Title: Elementary Spanish II

Hours Lecture: 5 Hours Lab: 1 Weeks: 18 Units: 5

Credit Status: AA/AS: X Non-Degree: Certificate: Non-Credit:

Transfer Code: UC: X CSU: X None:

Prerequisite or Corequisite: Completion of SPAN 1 with a minimum grade of “C”, or completion of two years of high school Spanish with minimum grades of “C”, or placement exam proficiency.

Catalog Description: This second introductory course introduces students to various Spanish tenses and grammatical structures, including the perfect tenses, the conditional, and the subjunctive. It is also designed to increase the student’s vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing skills.

Needs/Justifications/Goals: This course meets the General Education, Humanities and the Arts requirements, Area C, for the Associate in Arts and Associate in Science Degrees for the transfer pattern for UC and CSU.

Course Outline Prepared by: Dr. Norma Espinosa-Parker Date: August 19, 2005

Curriculum Committee Chair Division Chair Saul Panski Shemiran Lazar

SENATE APPROVAL DATE: 11/01/05 BOARD APPROVAL DATE: 11/22/05

TOP NO. 1105.00 USOE NO 00000000 CLASSIFICATION T5/55001 (a) (1) (B) CAN NO. N/A SAM CODE E Compton Community College August 19, 2005

Course Outline for SPAN 2

Elementary Spanish II

I. Catalog Description SPAN 2, Elementary Spanish II 5 Units This second introductory course introduces students to various Spanish tenses and grammatical structures, including the perfect tenses, the conditional, and the subjunctive. It is also designed to increase the student’s vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing skills.

II. Expected Student Learning Outcome Upon successful completion of the course students should be able to perform the following activities with 70% accuracy.

A. Use the present, preterit, imperfect, imperative, present perfect, past perfect, future, and conditional tenses in both conversation and written exercises.

B. Use the subjunctive mood with the present, present perfect, imperfect, and past perfect tenses in both conversation and written exercises.

C. Use the subjunctive in noun clauses, adjective clauses, and adverbial clauses.

III. Course Content

A. Actions in the past and in the distant past

B. Indefinite and negative statements

C. Purpose, cause, and motive

D. Subjunctive and emotional reactions, wishes, and requests

E. Giving orders to others and to a group in which one is included

F. Giving orders to family and friends

G. Impersonal expressions

H. Reactions to recent events SPAN 2, Elementary Spanish II Page 2

I. Comparing equal and unequal qualities or quantities

J. Hypothetical situation

K. Hopes

L. What will happen and pending actions

M. Purpose and condition

N. General situations in the present, past, and future

IV. Methods of Presentation

A. Oral repetition of words, phrases and sentences

B. Written exercises

C. Small groups and pairs with question/answer drills

D. Professor/student with question/answer drills

E. Lecture

F. Conversations based on text drawings and overhead projector visuals

G. Audio tapes

H. Software

I. Language lab

V. Assignments and Methods of Evaluation

A. Written exercises

B. Reading activities

C. Laboratory/tape listening exercises

D. Self testing exercises SPAN 2, Elementary Spanish II Page 3

E. Software

F. Test after each lesson

G. Attendance

H. Homework

I. Midterm

J. Final exam

VI. Textbook(s)

Dawson, Laila M. and Albert C. Dawson. Dicho y hecho. 7th ed. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons. 2004.

Dawson, Laila M. and Albert C. Dawson. Workbook for Dicho y hecho. 7th ed. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons. 2004.