{"id":132,"date":"2013-02-04T18:47:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T00:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/medinavi\/?p=132"},"modified":"2013-02-05T00:18:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T06:18:03","slug":"span-231","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/medinavi\/2013\/02\/04\/span-231\/","title":{"rendered":"SPAN 231: Intermediate Spanish I"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Fall 2012<\/b><\/p>\n

Intercultural Connections: The U.S. and the Spanish-Speaking World in a Global Community\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Spanish 231 explores the material and human diversity of the Spanish-speaking world and highlights important connections among the United States, the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America, and Spain.\u00a0 Whereas in Spanish 111 and 112 students learn the basic vocabulary and grammar to talk about themselves and their lives, in Spanish 231 students use their speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills to learn content through their second language<\/span>.\u00a0 The course has four major cultural themes that help students develop a new perspective on the Spanish-speaking World and its relationship to the U.S.:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Intercultural Connections: The U.S. and the Spanish-Speaking World in a Global Community<\/p>\n

\u2022 Material and Human Diversity in Latin America<\/p>\n

\u2022 Material and Human Diversity in Spain<\/p>\n

\u2022 Images of the Spanish-Speaking World: From the \u201cBig Picture\u201d (Datos<\/i>) to (the Lives of) Individuals<\/p>\n

(Retratos<\/i>)<\/p>\n

A review of selected Spanish grammar concepts (ser<\/i> versus estar<\/i>; comparative forms; the conjugations and uses of the present, preterit, imperfect, and other verb tenses; the conjugations and some uses of the present subjunctive, among others) will be integrated into our study of the four themes.\u00a0 Emphasis will be on using these concepts appropriately to process and express cultural information.<\/p>\n

Intended Learning Outcomes for Spanish 231:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Students in Spanish 231:<\/p>\n

1) Explore, compare, and contrast selected topics that illustrate the diversity of the Spanish-speaking world and highlight the connections between the U.S. and the \u201ccultures\u201d of the Spanish-speaking world in Spanish by:
\n\u2022 reading and listening to \u201cauthentic texts\u201d (e.g., periodical press articles, movies, interviews, and images) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 produced for native speakers of Spanish using appropriate\u00a0 reading and listening strategies
\n\u2022 speaking and writing using \u201cevidence\u201d gleaned from analysis of \u201cauthentic texts\u201d<\/p>\n

2) Begin to see themselves as \u201ccultural mediators\u201d between U.S. culture and the \u201ccultures\u201d of the Spanish-speaking world (and in doing so take one step toward developing the \u201cglobal perspective\u201d emphasized in the St. Olaf Mission Statement)<\/p>\n

3) Strengthen their ability to speak in Spanish, exploring course themes using full sentences and moving toward producing short paragraphs orally<\/p>\n

4) Strengthen their ability to write in Spanish, exploring course themes through writing assignments of varying lengths, from well-constructed paragraphs to multi-paragraph essays<\/p>\n

5) Through the review and use of selected grammatical features, develop increasing control of the following functions in Spanish\u2014 description, narration, expressing opinions, comparison\/contrast\u2014as they relate to course themes<\/p>\n

6) Begin to develop an awareness of second language learning as a process and learn\/practice strategies that enable them to use their language skills with increasing autonomy in and beyond the classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fall 2012 Intercultural Connections: The U.S. and the Spanish-Speaking World in a Global Community\u00a0 Spanish 231 explores the material and human diversity of the Spanish-speaking world and highlights important connections among the United States, the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America, Continue reading SPAN 231: Intermediate Spanish I<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/medinavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/medinavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/medinavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/medinavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/medinavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/medinavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/medinavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/medinavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/medinavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/medinavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}