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COURSE OUTLINE
Elementary Spanish II
Spanish SPAN 1002
Three (3) semester hours
Catalog description:
SPAN 1002. Elementary Spanish II. Continued listening, speaking, reading, and writing in
Spanish with further study of the culture of Spanish-speaking regions. Prerequisite: SPAN 1001
or two units in Spanish. Not open to native speakers. Laboratory requirement. (3-0-3)
Aims:
General:
1. To continue forming the listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills of novice level
Spanish students who have taken Elementary Spanish I or its equivalent.
2. To give students some insight into the historical and cultural components from which the
20th century Hispanic identity derives.
Specific: To enable students to deal with the simple and compound past tenses of the indicative,
a variety of negative statements, reflexive verbs, a limited number of idioms, future plans and
conditional possibilities, commands, doubts and denials that require use of the subjunctive verb
forms.
Prerequisite(s):
SPAN 1001 or two units in Spanish (two years of high school Spanish).
Course outline/content:
Introduction to course; the imperfect indicative; imperfect vs. Preterite; inside the home; more
about Mexico
Prepositions and pronouns that follow prepositions; por vs. para; reading literature
Student life; reflective verbs; reciprocal reflectives; adverb formation
Central America; the present and past perfect indicative; telling stories
On the road; expressing emotions and wishes with the subjunctive; the Greater Antilles
Formal commands and nosotros commands; poetry and prosody in Spanish
At the airport; informal commands; the subjunctive to express doubt; Colombia and Venezuela
At the train station; the subjunctive after impersonal statements; the present perfect subjunctive;
reading Gabriel García Márquez.
At the hotel; ordinal numbers; the subjunctive to refer to vague or non-existent antecedents;
equatorial South America
Comparisons; the conditional; a selection by César Vallejo
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Environmental concerns; the imperfect and pluperfect of the subjunctive mood; the Southern
Cone (Mercosur)
Posing hypothetical situations with si; expressing hopes with the subjunctive and ojalá;
Marco Denevi (Argentine)
The media, technology and the world of business; the future indicative; the subjunctive after
temporal conjunctions; on the internet abroad
Writing business letters in Spanish; the subjunctive after conditional conjunctions and those of
finality; applying for a job
Review of Spanish tenses and moods; final exam
Methods of instruction:
Lectures, pattern drills, verbal question and answer sessions, verbalizing based on pictorial
representations, pre-reading exercises, reading for comprehension (content questions), and timely
discussions of current affairs in Spain and Latin America.
Teaching aids:
Maps, audio-cassettes, filmstrips, video cassettes, current realia, occasional handouts, and the
internet.
Evaluation procedures:
Written lab assignments
15%
Bi-monthly tests requiring both aural comprehension and writing ability 50%
An individual oral interview near semester’s end
10%
A written final examination with an aural comprehension component
25%
Textbooks:
Dawson and Dawson. Dicho y Hecho (latest edition). New York: John Wiley and Sons.
__________ Dicho y Hecho: Beginning Spanish Workbook.
Supplemental materials
Audio cassettes reinforcing Dicho y Hecho
Computer software reinforcing Dicho y Hecho
Bibliography:
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Standards for Foreign Language
Learning; preparing for the 21st Century. Yonkers: ACTFL, 1996
Lee, James F., and Bill Van Patten. Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen. New
York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.
Real Academia Española. Esbozo de una nueva gramática...española Madrid; Espasa-Calpe,
1991.
Rojas, J. N. and Richard A. Curry. Gramática esencial. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe Boston:
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Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
Schmitt, Conrad J. Schaum's Spanish Grammar, 3rd ed. NY: McGraw Hill, 1989.
Smith, W. F., ed. Modern Technology in Foreign Language Education: Applications and
Projects. ACTFL Foreign Language Series. National Textbook Co., 1989.
Sohrman, Ingmar. Las construcciones condicionales en castellano contemporáneo. Almovist
and Wiksell, International, 1991.
Woods, Richard D. Spanish Grammar and Culture through Proverbs. Potomac, MD: Scripta
Humanorum, 1992.
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