DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE Spanish and Portuguese Language Programs Fall SPAN 150: Beginners Spanish II

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1 DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE Spanish and Portuguese Language Programs Fall SPAN 150: Beginners Spanish II Program Information: Blackboard: Textbook Website: Instructor: Gayle Vierma Section: vierma@usc.edu Phone number: Office Location: THH 266 Class Time: MW Office Hours: MW , TTh , Class Location(s): THH 106 and by appointment Consultorio: M 2 COURSE OBJECTIVES This is a course aimed at those students who wish to attain a working knowledge of Spanish, and the objective conditions will be created whereby all students can have a successful learning experience. Students will: develop basic communicative skills continue to learn to express themselves in spoken and written Spanish use Spanish to communicate in a wide range of contexts interact with Spanish texts on a variety of subjects gain knowledge of some social and historical aspects of the Spanish-speaking world learn more about the Spanish-speaking communities in Los Angeles The Language Program at USC teaches language communicatively which means that all courses are taught in Spanish, except for brief moments of English when absolutely necessary to facilitate the flow of the course. In a communicative language class, students are expected to be active co-participants in their own learning. This requires that you come to class prepared to engage in the day s work by having read all required material, completed any outside assignments, and learned the lesson s active vocabulary. REQUIRED COURSE MATERIAL Textbook: Castells, Guzmán, Lapuerta, & Liskin-Gasparro (2010). Mosaicos: Spanish as a World Language (5 th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Workbook: Workbook to Accompany Mosaicos: Spanish as a World Language (5 th ed.). IMPORTANT DATES Last day to drop a class without a mark of "W," September 14, 2012 Last day to drop a class with a mark of W November 16, 2012 FINAL EXAM: Friday, December 14, 8:00-10:00 a.m., LOCATION TBA ACADEMIC INTEGRITY USC seeks to maintain an optimal learning environment. General principles of academic honesty include the concept of respect for the intellectual property of others, the expectation that individual work will be submitted unless otherwise allowed by an instructor, and the obligations both to protect one s own academic work from misuse by others as well as to avoid using another s work as one s own. All students are expected to understand and abide by these principles. Scampus, the Student Guidebook, contains the Student Conduct Code in Section 11.00, while the recommended sanctions are located in Appendix A: Students will be referred to the Office of Student Judicial Affairs and Community Standards for further review, should there be any suspicion of academic dishonesty. The Review process can be found at:

2 The Language Program supports and follows the Student Conduct Code in the Scampus. Please familiarize yourself with this code as it governs acceptable classroom behavior, describes what constitutes cheating or plagiarism, and defines the procedure for responding to code violations. For the purposes of the Language Program, every task assigned by an instructor is an individual assignment unless specifically, stated otherwise. There may be no collaboration amongst students, nor collaboration with tutors in the completion of assignments. See the Statement on Academic Integrity for more specific information. Language Program instructors are required to report all acts of suspected academic dishonesty to Student Judicial Affairs and Community Standards (SJACS). In order to have a classroom environment conducive to learning and free of distractions, we ask that you turn your cell phones to silent or vibrate (or off) prior to entering your Spanish class. You are allowed to use your laptop or tablet during your regular classes, but you cannot turn them on during any of your exams. In addition, you may not take out any devices during examinations or it will be considered an attempt to gain an unfair academic advantage and you will be referred to SJACS. ACCOMODATION IN THE LANGUAGE PROGRAM: DSP Any student requesting academic accommodations based on a disability is required to register with Disability Services and Programs (DSP) each semester. A letter of verification for approved accommodations can be obtained from DSP. Please present your letter of accommodation to your instructor as early in the semester as possible, preferably during the first week of classes. Arrangements for accommodations for chapter exams are done individually with your instructor. Requests for accommodations for final exams require the DSP test proctoring form, signed by the student and the professor and submitted to DSP by the student, two weeks prior to the beginning of the final exam period. DSP is located in STU 301 and is open 8:30 a.m. 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. The phone number for DSP is (213) CONTACT WITH INSTRUCTORS Your first contact is your instructor who may be reached through , by telephone, or in person during office hours or by appointment. You can find contact information for the Program and the faculty on the Language Program page of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese The Director of the Spanish and Portuguese Language Programs, Dr. Gabriela C. Zapata, is also available to assist you via (gzapata@usc.edu), phone ( ), or in person (THH 156N). Her walk-in office hours are T & Th 9:45 10:45 a.m., and M & W 2:00 3:00 p.m. COURSE EVALUATION The evaluation system is based on students ability to participate actively and effectively in a wide variety of language related activities both in and out of the classroom. This entails a kind of apprenticeship into the language and progress is a result of the students own efforts. A strategy of continuous application and fulfillment of course requirements will enable students to exercise a great deal of direct control over their final grade for this course. SUMMARY OF DISTRIBUTION OF GRADES EVALUATION PROCEDURES % Participation 10 Assignments 10 Midterm Oral Interview 5 5 Chapter Exams 35 Cultural project 10 Final Oral Interview 5 Composition Exam 5 Final Written Exam 20 TOTAL 100

3 GRADING SYSTEM PERCENTAGES LETTER GRADE A A B B B C C C D D D F EXPLANATION OF EVALUATION PROCEDURES 1. Make Up Policy Be aware that the Language Program has a Make Up Policy, and that all course work responds to it. This means that in order to make up any work (assignments, quizzes, exams, etc.) that you miss, you must present valid, original documentation to your instructor. Given that the classroom is your primary source of Spanish, absences (excused or not) hinder your ability to cultivate your Spanish language proficiency. General university policy states that students who can verify that they were prevented from completing assignments due to illness or religious holidays are permitted to make up the work they missed. Students who miss class because of their performance in university-sponsored events, such as athletic competitions, fine-arts performances, ROTC activities, etc. are also allowed to make up the work they missed. The other valid reason for making up work is a death in the immediate family. Personal reasons for missing class cannot be excused. These include personal trips to attend university-sponsored events as a spectator, to visit family, to attend weddings (and the like), to attend court (except for jury duty), and other personal reasons, even when plane tickets have been purchased. Students must provide original documentation for all valid absences. For illness, a medical excuse from a doctor or other appropriate health-care provider is required and is subject to confirmation. Students using the University Park Health Center should have a valid release on file at the UPHC with their instructor s name on it. For university-sponsored events, an original memo from the appropriate advisor must be provided. Documentation from a newspaper, funeral, memorial service, etc., must be provided in the event of absence due a death in the immediate family. Class Work To make up missed class work, consult your instructor. Give your instructor the original of your excuse, who will verify it and attach it (or a copy of it) to the grade sheet. Exams Your instructor will provide you with a form that you will need to fill out in order to make up any of the written and oral exams in this class.

4 In order to assist you, we have summarized below the different components of the Spanish courses. If after reading these sections, you have questions about your course, please be sure to ask your instructor. 2. Use of Spanish This is a Spanish course, therefore it will be taught in Spanish. However, the instructor may occasionally use English if it is deemed pedagogically appropriate. Furthermore, to benefit from this course and to acquire a greater understanding of the language, students are expected to speak Spanish as much as possible in class. 3. Participation Purpose: To provide multiple evaluations of oral participation and engagement. Participation consists of the assessment of the quality of the student s contributions to the class and language learning. Participation is not an attendance grade, but rather a measure of each student s language learning activity. If you appear not to be prepared, your grade will reflect this. If you are prepared and do not participate, your grade will suffer similarly. We expect that all students will engage in the course in ways that will advance language learning. Participation may be evaluated through the level of preparation, discussions of readings, participation in oral activities, contributions to pair and small group work, and use of Spanish as the language of communication in the classroom. You are expected to use Spanish to communicate with your fellow students and instructor at all times during your class (except when discussing your grades or any administrative matters related to your class). If you are absent and excused, you will earn the average of your performance for participation. You may consult with your instructor about your participation throughout the semester. Your participation grades will be posted in Blackboard in weeks 3, 6, 9, 12, and Cultural Project Purpose: To expose you to an aspect of Hispanic culture that will be unique to your course. Your instructor will describe the project that will be carried out in your specific course. The project will reflect your instructor s particular interests or areas of expertise and will be an opportunity for you to see Hispanic culture through new eyes as a language learner. Possible projects would include: study of a public figure (politician/author/artist, etc.) and/or work and further research on the same through the internet with a presentation; viewing a film (outside of class) with an in-depth followup on some aspect of it; tracking an important news event across time, medium, and culture with a critical analysis of the same; study of a particular cultural or socio-political phenomenon or geographical area. The outside time commitment on the project will average five hours. When completing this assignment, all students are expected to abide by USC principles of Academic Integrity. Consult the Statement on Academic Integrity on the Language Program website or the Scampus as you prepare your project. 5. Assignments Purpose: To give you the opportunity to experiment with and practice your Spanish. How they work: You will do your exercises and practices outside of class in an electronic workbook. Use a web browser and go to the myusc portal or the Blackboard website Once inside Blackboard, click on your Spanish class. Blackboard is the framework for the electronic workbook. You will also have to enter the key in your book to access the assignments. Your instructor can assist you with this matter. To do your assignment, click on the Assignments icon. Click on the lesson you are working on (note the deadlines) and go to an activity. To prepare for the activities, read the lesson in the text before starting in the workbook. Note that most activities will direct you to the appropriate pages in your text if you encounter difficulties. An assignment consists of every single activity for the lesson. There are approximately twenty-five activities per lesson. The majority of the activities for each lesson are machine-scored, and some will accept multiple correct answers. Pay attention to spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and accentuation as you complete your work. The compositions are evaluated by your instructor, who will offer you feedback on an individual basis. Your scores are housed in the Blackboard grade book. You may check your scores at any time. You may repeat an exercise as many times as you would like. You must, however, complete the activities by the deadline in Blackboard. You may not access the quizzes after the deadline unless your instructor resets the deadline. You must complete all of the assignments for

5 each of the lessons for your level. No assignments will be dropped. Activities that are not done or not submitted for scoring (work saved, but not submitted for scoring) are computed as a zero. You may find extra activities to practice for the course exams, and to improve your accuracy and proficiency in general by going to the Mosaicos website. NOTE: When doing your workbook, if you open multiple instances (windows) of Bb, submit your activities for scoring from the original instance (window) of Bb. It is the original instance that the system uses to record your grades. 6. Chapter Exams Purpose: To validate comprehension of material in the lesson and serve as a diagnostic tool in preparation for the final exam. They also allow students to assess their knowledge of the material learned in each chapter. How they work: The exam may cover any and all of the material related to the lesson. It may take any of several written forms including, but not limited to: reading and listening comprehension exercises, fill-in-the-blank, short answer items, short compositions, etc. These are significant measurements of your comprehension of the material in the lesson and should be viewed as interim assessments with regard to the final exam. The number of items on an exam is variable. 7. Midterm and Final Oral Interviews, Composition Exam, and Final Exam Purpose: To evaluate your progress in the acquisition of Spanish in the different skill areas. How they work: 1. Midterm and Final Oral Interviews: The oral interview midterm and final exams are one-on-one interviews, in Spanish, with your instructor. They are conducted at midterm and at the end of the semester, and you will be evaluated with regard to the expected proficiency level of students in your course. 2. Composition Exam: The Composition exam consist of a writing activity at the end of the course. It lasts 30 minutes and is accomplished without the use of dictionaries. Your preparation for this exam should include a review of grammar points, readings, topics, themes, and vocabulary from your course. Consult your syllabus for material covered. 3. Final Exam: The exam contains Listening Comprehension, Reading Comprehension, Grammar, and Vocabulary. Study Guides will be posted to the web site approximately one week before each of these exams. 8. Extra Credit Extra credit of 1% of the course grade is possible. It is for attendance at a public cultural event, such as a play in Spanish, public screening of a film in Spanish, etc. The credit is not automatic and is based on the summary the student writes evaluating the experience. Have your extra credit activity approved by your instructor before you do it. COLLEGE LANGUAGE CENTER The College Language Center is the preferred location for language students to do their work, particularly the workbook. You may, however, do any type of work in the Center. As registered language students you have the first priority for the use of the Center. Consultorio The Consultorio is a walk-in help desk staffed by Language Program faculty in the Language Center, Rm You may consult with the faculty about any question that you may have regarding your Spanish course; a difficult grammar point, a reading selection that you do not understand, or any other uncertainty. You may also converse in Spanish with the instructor, time permitting. This is the best help available. TEMARIO/SCHEDULE: - The instructor reserves the right to make changes to the schedule (excluding exams and composition dates) if he/she deems it pedagogically appropriate. - The student is responsible for the notes/material from any classes missed. - Remember to bring your textbook to class every day. You are responsible for all the material assigned that is listed on each day, and you are expected to complete ALL assigned activities listed on the schedule or any assigned by the instructor BEFORE you come to class. - NOTE: Any incomplete assignment will receive an automatic grade of ZERO.

6 Week/Date: August September September September September Content: Introducción al curso y repaso. Introducción a Bb Capítulo 6: De compras (pp ) Talk about clothing, prices, and shopping Talk about past events Express likes and dislikes Talking about the past: Preterit tense of regular verbs (page 198) Talking about the past: Preterit of ir and ser (page 201) Indicating to whom or for whom an actions takes place: Indirect object nouns and pronouns (page 203) Expressing likes and dislikes: Gustar and similar verbs (page 206) Describing people, objects, and events: More about ser and estar (page 209) Lectura: Primera Mirada (page 215) Capítulo 6: De compras, cont.(pp ) Lectura: El mundo fascinante de Simón Bolívar (pp ) A escribir: Carta: Secuencia cronológica de una compra mala hecha en internet (page 217) Repaso para el examen 1: Capítulo 6 Examen 1: Capítulo 6 Capítulo 7: Los deportes (pp ) Talk about sports and physical activities Ask and answer questions about weather Discuss past events Talking about the past: Preterit of reflexive verbs and pronouns (page 232) Talking about the past: Preterit of er and-ir verbs whose stem ends in a vowel (page 236) Talking about the past: Preterit of stem-changing ir verbs (page 238) Emphasizing or clarifying information: Pronouns after prepositions (page 241) Talking about the past: Some irregular preterits (page 243) Lectura: Los deportes: Una pasión uruguaya (page 249) Capítulo 7: Las deportes (cont.) Lectura: El arte del asado y la tradición ganadera en Argentina y Uruguay (pp ) A escribir: Artículo electrónico: La importancia del ejercicio físico en los adolescentes (p. 251) Repaso para el examen 2: Capítulo 7 Examen 2: Capítulo 7 Capítulo 8: Nuestras tradiciones (pp ) Talk about holidays, traditions, and celebrations Express ongoing actions in the past Narrate past events Make comparisons Expressing ongoing actions and descriptions in the past: The imperfect (page 266) Narrating in the past: The preterit and the imperfect (page 270) Comparing people and things: Comparisons of inequality (page 273) Comparing people and things: Comparison of equality (page 276) Comparing people and things: The superlative (page 278) Lectura: Creencias y costumbres mayas sobre la muerte (page 282)

7 October October October October October 1 November November November 13 and November November December Capítulo 8: Nuestras tradiciones, cont. (pp ) A escribir: Narrativa: Historia personal (page 285) Capítulo 8: Nuestras tradiciones, cont. (pp ) Lectura: Cultura y tradiciones mexicanas (pp ) Examen 3: Capítulo 8 Oral Interviews: Third and fourth 50 minute sessions Capítulo 9: Hay que trabajar (pp ) Talk about the workplace and professions Talk about the past Give instructions Avoiding repetition: Review of direct and indirect object pronouns (page 302) Avoiding repetition: Use of direct and indirect object pronouns together (page 305) Talking about the past: More on the imperfect and the preterit (page 308) Giving instructions or suggestions: Formal commands (page 312) Capítulo 9: Hay que trabajar, cont. (pp ) Lectura: Los guatemaltecos en Estados Unidos (page 319) Capítulo 9: Hay que trabajar (cont.) Lectura: Historia y trabajo en Guatemala (pp ) Repaso para el examen 4: Capítulo 9 Examen 4: Capítulo 9 Capítulo 10: A comer! (pp ) Discuss food, menus, diets, and shopping for food State impersonal information Give instructions Talk about the recent past and the future Stating impersonal information: Se + verb constructions (page 336) Talking about the recent past: Present perfect and participles used as adjectives (page 339) Giving instructions in informal settings: Informal commands (page 344) Talking about the future: The future tense (page 348) Capítulo 10: A comer!, cont. (pp ) Lectura: La fusión culinaria: una tendencia nueva con una historia larga (page 355) Capítulo 10: A comer!(cont.) Lectura: Ecuador: alimentación y salud pública (pp ) Repaso para el examen 5: Capítulo 10 Examen 5: Capítulo 10 Composition, Oral Interviews, and Review First 50 minute session: Composition (first 20 minutes) and Oral Interviews Second and third 50 minute sessions: Oral Interviews (as needed) Fourth 50 minute session: Review and Pre-Final scores