SPAN 2202 - Intermediate Spanish Language and Culture II

1. Discuss a wide variety of topics.
2. Ask and answer a variety of questions that require elaboration and substantiation of opinions.
3. Discuss feelings and ideas about self and others.
4. Compare, contrast, express and support opinions and make suggestions and recommendations.
5. Analyze selected reading materials.
6. Identify the main idea and demonstrate understanding of significant details of authentic materials.
7. Demonstrate understanding of written and spoken Spanish on a wide variety of topics in any time frame.
8. Write formal compositions for a variety of purposes.
9. Compare the target culture and the student’s own culture on topics such as the environment and other contemporary issues in society.
10. Discuss and analyze contributions of cultures such as selections from various literary genres and fine arts.
11. Identify examples of vocabulary borrowed from other linguistic groups through historical events such as wars and conquests, both in Spain and the Americas, and recognize how these are reflected in modern dialectical variations.
12. Empathize with Hispanics and other minorities and immigrants who have to learn a new language by understanding many of the specific difficulties non-native English learners confront in learning English pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary.
13. Consider current political issues and struggles within Latin America relating to disparities in wealth and land ownership resulting from long-held institutions of unequal power, much of which can be traced back to the Spanish conquest of America.
14. Identify some of the linguistic, cultural, racial, and ethnic commonalities and differences between the more than twenty Latin American countries and Spain and challenge stereotypes by recognizing how those characteristics distinguish the various Hispanic groups abroad and living in the United States.
15. Understand some basic historic, artistic and cultural paradigms of Spain (the old world) versus Latin America from pre-Columbian to modern times and recognize the dynamic of mutual influence across continents and cultures.
16. Compare and contrast elements of racism, classism, sexism, and religious intolerance between Hispanic and Anglo culture and reflect on their own attitudes and beliefs.

1. Formal and informal commands
2. Present and past subjunctive forms
3. Future tense
4. Conditional tense
5. Double object, reflexive, reciprocal, and relative pronouns
6. Indefinite and negative expressions
7. Indicative and subjunctive in subordinate clauses
8. Sports and recreation in modern Latin American as well as Pre-Columbian sports and their influence on the modern world
9. Foods of Spain and modern as well as pre-Columbian Latin America and their influence on cuisine throughout the world
10. Family and social relationships in Latin America
11. Politics, human rights, and social issues in Latin America