CNM

SPANISH 202

Fall 2005

 

 

PROGRAMA DEL CURSO

 

 (Course Syllabus)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Course Objectives:

 

 

• To develop students’ listening and writing skills through ongoing, contextualized practice

 

• To strengthen students’ ability to read authentic texts and articulate their observations, reactions, and opinions.

 

• To promote communicative competency by offering ongoing opportunities for oral practice in a variety of realistic contexts.
• To expand students’ knowledge of culture through a rich presentation of information about the countries that comprise the Spanish-speaking world.

 

Attendance & Participation:

 

Active participation and frequent immersion in the target language are essential to language development and therefore you must attend class. Attendance is taken each class session. According to T-VI policy, students enrolled for credit or audit are expected to attend all class sessions and failure to attend the first two weeks of classes will result in the student being dropped.  Your instructor may drop students with excessive absences (15% of total class hours= 5 classes). Moreover, tardiness or leaving class early will be noted and partial absence recorded.

 

Remember, the only way to better your spoken Spanish is to speak---which probably means that you will have to take some chances, experiment, make mistakes, and learn! Besides active in-class participation you are expected to conscientiously prepare assignments outside of class so that you are thoroughly prepared for class. To participate actively, you will need to come to class well prepared in terms of vocabulary and ideas.  Likewise, you will need to come willing to practice expressing yourself.  Oral communication does not imply perfection, but it does necessitate an increasing ability and willingness to convey what you want to say in Spanish.  In addition to your oral participation, your in-class performance also includes your attitude towards your classmates, the degree to which you have prepared the assignments, etc. Please respect and work with the other students to establish a positive environment in which everyone will contribute as much as possible. You will receive 3 in-class performance grades throughout the semester. The average of these grades, combined with attendance, will comprise 30% of the final grade for the course.

         

Please put your cell phones on silent or vibration mode.  If you receive a call, and it is an emergency, please step outside of class and take your call outside.                                                                     

 

 

Quizzes:

There will be a quiz at the end of each lesson beginning with Lección 1 and ending with Lección 5, for a total of five quizzes. There are no make-up quizzes; however, instructor will drop the lowest quiz score at the end of the semester. Thus, should a student miss a scheduled quiz due to unavoidable circumstances, the grading consequences are minimized. Only one 'drop' is allowed. Quizzes total 20% of the final grade.

 

Compositions:

 

Students will complete three short compositions (consisiting of a 3 page minimum) during the semester. The instructor will provide the topics. Students will be graded on content, organization, language use, vocabulary, and mechanics.  Each composition is worth 5% of the final grade.

 

 

Group Presentations:

Plays appropriate for intermediate students of Spanish have been selected and students will be chosen to play the various roles.  This is an engaging and fun activity that will expand your vocabulary and improve your fluency in the Spanish language.  They play will be presented in class.  You will be graded on preparation, appropriateness of presentation (how well you present the play to the class), fluency and accuracy.  This component is worth 15% of the final evaluation.

 

Homework, in-class assignments, and assigned readings:

 

Homework will not only consist of handouts given in class and assignments from the text but also assigned readings.  You will be assigned a reading from the text book.  You will prepare the reading and present it to class.  You will be graded on fluency, pronunciation, and accuracy.  All combined homework is worth 15% of the final grade.

 

 

Final exam:

 

The final for the course consists of a traditional written exam, as well as a 5-10 minute individual presentation that will highlight a topic that you have been developing throughout the semester. You will be graded on originality, content, fluency, accuracy, and use of language.

 

 

GRADING PROCEDURE

 

Homework and in-class assignments:	15%
Compositions (3):	15%
Group presentation:	15%
Quizzes (5):	20%
Attendance & Participation:	15%
Final exam: (parte escrita 10%, presentación individual 10%)	20%

                            

                   

                                     

 

 

Letter grades: 91-100= A, 81-90=B, 71-80=C, 61-70=D

*It is a Department of Communications, Humanities, and Social Sciences policy that all courses have final evaluation. Failure to take the final exam results in an ‘F’ for the course.

 

 

Monday and Wednesday Schedule

 

Please note that this schedule is subject to change. Due to Holidays and Campus wide school cancellations, sometimes this schedule has to change. It is your responsibility to keep up to date on any changes. These changes will be announced in class. Find a phone buddy in the class so you can be notified of any changes.

 

 

 

 

 

Should CNM close during finals week, CHSS finals scheduled for that day will be rescheduled to the first non-exam day available, at the same time and the same location as originally scheduled. If closures occur for more than one day during finals week, finals cancelled on subsequent days will be rescheduled for the next available day; again at the same time and location originally scheduled. If rescheduling of a final exam is impossible due to a lengthy closing during finals week, final grades for students will be calculated on the work assessed up to that point.