Description
(formerly Intermediate Spanish; formerly SPA 135; formerly Spanish for Communication)
This course is designed to reinforce and expand the necessary skills acquired in previous courses and to achieve the next step towards communicative proficiency. Emphasis is placed on the study of more advanced grammatical structures, vocabulary and idiomatic expressions. Students will read a variety of high interest texts as well as experience videos, music, news broadcasts, etc., that provide models for discussion and writing, and that are a means for understanding the contemporary culture of Latin America and Spain. The Department strongly recommends that students take SPA 215 or 216 concurrently with this course. The Department may change placement into a language course based upon individual previous language experience. Recommended prerequisite: SPA 102 (104, 106) or equivalent. Students are required to complete 1 hour of lab work per week in the Language Resource Center.