SPAN 220 Intermediate Spanish II (3 SH)

This course is a continuation of SPAN 210 and focuses on conversational themes. Students will increase oral and written fluency, cultural understanding, and compare Hispanic culture to their own native culture. The course engages learners in speaking, listening, and writing activities based on communicative and task-based approaches to reinforce and review core functional-linguistic structures (narrating in the present and past tenses; expressing more complex opinions and feelings about recent and past events; discuss hypothetical situations; use grammar structures specific to oral and written language; articulate specific preferences; and express agreement or disagreement). Students discuss short films and cultural readings and regularly attend conversation sessions with a native-speaker language assistant. This course is typically appropriate for students who have had four or five years of high school Spanish. Prerequisite: SPAN 210 or equivalent.