Course Description

Course Name

Beginning Spanish I

Session: VCSF1124

Status: Closed

Hours & Credits

60

Prerequisites & Language Level

Beginning

  • There is no language prerequisite for courses at this language level.

Overview

Español Inicial I [SPA 130S] 
 
 
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:
Este curso será impartido en español.
 
CONTACT HOURS:
El curso tiene un total de 60 horas lectivas, repartidas en 40 sesiones de 90 minutos.
 
GENERAL COURSE DESCRIPTION AND COURSE OBJECTIVES:
In this course, students will be able to understand essential elements in communicative situations and they will develop integrated communicative skills in a basic level: reading, writing, listening and speaking. These skills will allow them to interact in everyday circumstances.
 
Among other things, the students will be able to express immediate needs, opinions and plans. Also, they will describe everyday activities, actions in progress and facts that happened in a recent past.
 
 
COURSE PRE-REQUISITES:
No existen pre-requisitos para este curso.
 
EVALUATION CRITERIA:

Rubros del esquema de evaluación

Ponderación

Temporalidad

Asistencia y participación en clase

30%

1 - 6

Composición

20%

5

Examen parcial

20%

3

Examen final

30%

6
 
REQUIRED READINGS AND TEXTS:
Se usará el siguiente libro: Borobio, Virgilio. (2011). ELE Actual, Curso de español para extranjeros A2. Editorial SM. Adicionalmente, se entregarán textos y ejercicios de manera impresa y electrónica en el transcurso del ciclo académico.
 

*Course content subject to change