SPAN 1101 - Beginning Spanish Language and Culture I

1. Carry on a short conversation about personal interests including what they are doing and are going to do.
2. Ask and answer simple questions using practiced patterns.
3. State personal preferences and feelings.
4. Express agreement and disagreement using memorized expressions.
5. Read and respond to level-appropriate written materials on familiar topics - as listed in outcome #1.
6. Identify the main idea of selected authentic materials.
7. Demonstrate understanding of written and spoken language that has strong visual support.
8. Write short, guided compositions on familiar topics in the present time frame.
9. Identify similarities and differences between the target cultures and the student’s own culture with topics such as family, Spanish around the world, greetings, university systems, mode of dress, house, architecture, city design, and systems.
10. Identify and describe contributions from the target cultures such as artwork, architecture, music, dance, literature, language and modes of dress.
11. Analyze the syntactic structure of simple sentences, labeling words by their grammatical function.
12. Recognize morphological cues such as prefixes, suffixes, borrowed words and cognates to guess the meanings of unfamiliar words in English and Spanish.
13. Differentiate between spelling rules in Spanish and English and apply orthographic conventions and accent rules to correctly spell words based on how they sound and to pronounce words correctly based on their spelling.
14. Identify some of the more basic cultural distinctions and linguistic variations among the more than twenty Latin American countries in addition to Spain and challenge stereotypes that attempt to define Hispanic as a single homogenous culture.
15. Empathize with the difficulties Hispanic (and other minority) immigrants confront in learning a second language.
16. Label Spanish-speaking countries and regions on a map, as well as some geographic areas encompassed by major pre-Hispanic civilizations and their respective spheres of influence and identify basic demographic and immigration patterns of Spanish-speaking groups living in the United States.
17. Reflect on the issue of immigration and understand some of the historical and political dynamics within Latin America that have contributed to the disparities in wealth and land ownership and led Latin Americans to emigrate from their homelands to the United States.
18. Understand the concept of syncretism and identify some cultural, linguistic and religious influences from other countries as well as from groups living within Latin America.

1. Greetings and expressions of courtesy
2. Alphabet, pronunciation, word stress, accent rules and orthographic rules
3. Cognates and borrowed words (such as place names)
4. Numbers through 100,000,000
5. Telling time
6. Expressing likes/dislikes
7. Definite and indefinite articles
8. Gender and number agreement between nouns and adjectives
9. Expressing possession
10. “Tener” expressions
11. Present tense conjugation of regular, irregular, stem-changing and reflexive verbs and expressing the future using (ir + a + infinitive)
12. Expressing “to be” with “ser” and “estar”
13. Vocabulary relating to school, home, family, clothing and shopping
14. Basic geography of the Spanish-speaking world, including pre-Columbian civilizations and demographics of Hispanics in the United States
15. Cultural themes and vignettes through readings, class discussions, videos and multimedia presentations