Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Upon successful completion students should be able to:
1. Manage common interactions, in both oral and written forms, in a selected variety of settings using the present, past and future tenses.
2. Further develop circumlocution and inference skills when navigating a variety of real world situations in Spanish.
3. Reflect on linguistic and cultural diversity within the Spanish-speaking world and how it differs and/or relates to one’s own culture.
4. Apply a broader understanding of important historical and cultural movements in the target culture through exposure to literature, art and
performing arts in the target language.
5. Expand and strengthen strategies for analyzing authentic materials in the target language.

After the introduction to the course, Spanish will be used in the classroom at all times.

Students will be assessed by any combination of the following:
1. Active participation in class
2. Individual and group presentations
3. Contextual written tasks (in or outside of class) to assess reading,
   writing, cultural, and aural competencies
4. Oral interviews with partner or instructor
5. In class, interactive student role-plays
 

Include all or most of the following:
1. Daily routine and personal hygiene
2. Reflexive verbs
3. Indefinite and negative words
4. Verbs like Gustar
5. Time expressions
Preterit of the verbs Ser and Ir
6. Food, meals and restaurants
7. Preterit of stem-changing verbs
8. Comparisons and superlatives
9. Parties, holidays and celebrations
10. Personal relationships and life stages
11. Irregular preterits
12. Pronouns after prepositions
13. Health, medicine, medical conditions and parts of the body
14. Past tense (imperfect)
15. adverbs
16. Using the preterit and imperfect together
Competencies and Skills
1. Manages basic personal interactions 
2. Discusses future plans and preferences
3. Describes daily activities in present and past
4. Recognizes and appreciates cultural and linguistic differences in the
   Spanish speaking world
5. Begins to write paragraphs
6. Reads and understands the main ideas in a variety of texts
7. Comprehends slow native speech in a highly contextual setting
8. Makes herself/himself understood by a native speaker accustomed to
   non-native speakers