Spanish 232.003 Intermediate Spanish II Department of Modern Languages TR 12:30-1:45 pm Ferguson 175 Professor: Nora Vivas Office: LAN 253 Office Hours: MWF 9:00-11:00, TR 10:00-11:00, and by appointment Email: vivasn@sfasu.edu Phone: 468-2260 Textbook(s): Más: Español Intermedio, by Pérez-Gironés, McGraw-Hill, 2010. And the accompanying online Cuaderno de práctica Course Description: Intermediate Spanish (SPAN 2312) Cultural and literary readings, composition and grammar review. Prerequisite: SPA 231 or equivalent with a grade of C or better. Grading: Participación: 50 puntos Tarea: 200 puntos (Includes Actividades de cortometrajes, vocabulario, estructuras, cultura, lectura y práctica auditiva/oral) Composiciones: 2x100=200 puntos Presentación oral: 50 puntos Cortometraje en grupo: 100 puntos Examen oral: 50 puntos Examen de medio semestre: 150 puntos Examen final: 200 puntos Total: 1000 puntos Letter grades will be assigned according to the following scale: 900-1000 A 800-899 B 700-799 C 600-699 D 0-599 F Assignments Descriptions: Participación: While attendance is mandatory, you will only receive full participation points if you are present, on time, prepared, remain for the entire class, you are engaged in your learning and actively participate in class activities while being respectful and attentive to others. CELL PHONES are NOT permitted in class; they must be turned off and put away before class begins. Texting, emailing, or engaging in any other kind of distraction from class activities, such as working on homework during class time, will result in you being counted as absent for the day and therefore unable to earn participation points. Tarea: All of the activities corresponding to the lessons covered are assigned in the online Cuaderno de práctica. They are to be completed by the due date in order to
receive credit for them. Notice that if you miss a deadline you may still get the practice to better prepare you for class work and exams, but you will not get the homework credit. Completion of your workbook assignments accounts for 20% of your final grade. In order to complete the homework, you will also watch a series of award-winning short films, part of them may be viewed in class as time permits, but they are available online as well. Please keep in mind that foreign film standards differ from those in the United States. Some of the short films may include vocabulary and topics addressing controversial subject matter. You may click on the link in the online workbook to the film overview to read it first; then, use your discretion in deciding if you wish to view the film. Please let your instructor know if you opt out of viewing any of the films so that alternate assignments can be arranged. In addition to vocabulary and grammar structures, reading activities will expose you to the diversity of cultures and literary texts of the Spanish-speaking world. These activities, writing activities as well, require more time than class allows, so you will prepare them out of class and bring them to class completed according to the schedule. There are also activities designed to help you with your listening comprehension and pronunciation in the fully integrated audio program from the online workbook. In most of the exercises assigned within the online workbook, you will receive immediate feedback and scoring. Composiciones: Students will write two compositions during this semester of about 200-250 words. They must be typed, doubled spaced, 12 pt font, using diacritical marks (á, é, í, ó, ú, ñ,!,?), and must be submitted via Turnitin.com through a link on Blackboard. Compositions will reflect grammatical structures and vocabulary learned in class. Each will show the three- step process of writing: pre-writing, drafting, and editing. The workbook writing activities will be your starting points for them. Your instructor will give you additional information. Presentación oral: To further your ability to perform in Spanish and to demonstrate the level of your language acquisition you will be required to make an individual 3 to 5 minutes oral presentation which will be submitted via Blackboard using a video recorder to record your narration. In it you will introduce yourself giving your physical and personality description. You will then narrate a personal anecdote you want to share with the class; therefore, you will include pertinent vocabulary and grammatical structures. You are also required to comment on at least three of your classmates presentations. Cortometraje en grupo: After viewing the films in this course, in groups of 3-5 you will create your own short film for the class. You will need to showcase grammar, vocabulary, and cultural information from the semester. The instructor will provide further details. Examen oral: In groups of two, although each student will be graded individually, you will meet with your instructor for an oral exam in the manner of an informal conversation. Your grade will depend on fluency, grammar, vocabulary, and knowledge of cultural readings.
Exámenes: There will be one midterm exam and one final exam on the material covered in the course in all four linguistic modalities: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Instrucción suplementaria: In an effort to facilitate your academic success, the Academic Assistance and Resource Center (AARC) and your instructor have made arrangements to have a Supplemental Instruction Leader for this course. Supplemental Instruction (SI) is an academic assistance program that utilizes peer-assisted study sessions. SI sessions, facilitated by SI leaders, are weekly-scheduled, informal review meetings in which students compare notes, discuss studied materials, develop organizational tools, predict test items, and practice their Spanish language skills. Students learn how to integrate course content and study skills while working together. This is a service available to you at NO additional cost. In order to encourage all students to attend SI sessions, your instructor has developed an additional reward system. For each SI session you attend you will earn one point, which can be applied toward a grade of your choice, up to three points per item. For example, if at the end of the semester you earned 15 points, you may add three points to each of the grades you earned on one of the compositions, the oral presentation, the oral exam, the midterm, and the final. Space is limited, so make sure you attend the sessions you signed up for as you may not be able to attend another one right away. Course Schedule: Fecha Plan de Haber completado para la próxima Tuesday, August 30 Thursday, September 1 Bienvenida al curso; presentación de objetivos y materiales; presentación de SI Leader Capítulo 1 De entrada: vídeo en Introducción a Estructuras 1 Estructuras 2 Estructuras 1 Estructuras 2 Tuesday, September 6 del capítulo 1: September 7 Estructuras 3 Estructuras 3
Thursday, September 8 Tuesday, September 13 Capítulo 2 Introducción a Estructuras 4 Estructuras 4 Estructuras 5 Introducción a Estructuras 6 Estructuras 4 Estructuras 5 Estructuras 6 Thursday, September 15 del capítulo 2: September 18 Tuesday, September 20 Thursday, September 22 Tuesday, September 27 del capítulo 3: September 28 Estructuras 6 Capítulo 3 Introducción a Estructuras 7 Estructuras 7 Estructuras 8 Introducción a Estructuras 9 Estructuras 9 Estructuras 7 Estructuras 8 Estructuras 9 Presentación oral Thursday, September 29 Capítulo 4 Introducción a Estructuras 10 Estructuras 10 Composición I borrador
Tuesday, October 4 Estructuras 10 Estructuras 11 Introducción a Estructuras 12 Estructuras 11 Estructuras 12 Thursday, October 6 del capítulo 4: October 9 Estructuras 12 Tuesday, October 11 Examen parcial: Capítulos 1-4 Thursday, October 13 Capítulo 5 Introducción a Estructuras 13 Estructuras 13 Composición I final Tuesday, October 18 Estructuras 13 Estructuras 14 Estructuras 14 Estructuras 14 Thursday, October 20 del capítulo 5: October 23 Tuesday, October 25 Capítulo 6 Introducción a Estructuras 15 Estructuras 15 Thursday, October 27 Estructuras 15 Estructuras 16 Estructuras 16
Tuesday, November 1 del capítulo 6: November 2 Thursday, November 3 Tuesday, November 8 Capítulo 7 Introducción a Estructuras 17 Estructuras 17 Estructuras 18 Estructuras 17 Estructuras 18 Thursday, November 10 del capítulo 7: November 13 Tuesday, November 15 Capítulo 8 Composición II borrador Thursday, November 17 Estructuras 19 Estructuras 20 Estructuras 19 Estructuras 20 Tuesday, November 22 del capítulo 8: November 23 Composición II final
Tuesday, November 29 Capítulo 9 Estructuras 21 Estructuras 21 Estructuras 22 Examen oral Thursday, December 1 del capítulo 9: December 4 Introducción a la Examen oral Tuesday, December 6 Cortometrajes Repaso Thursday, December 8 Cortometrajes Repaso Tuesday, December 13 Examen final 10:30 am-12:30pm I. Student Learning Outcomes: By the end of this intermediate Spanish course, students will be able to communicate at an intermediate level on various topics using a variety of verbal tenses, aspects, and moods as they review and expand their vocabulary. They will comprehend diverse authentic reading and audiovisual materials composed for native speakers of Spanish. They will write compositions comparing the students own culture with those of Spanish-speaking countries. II. Program Learning Outcomes for Majors: 1) Students will demonstrate the ability to engage in effective oral communication with native speakers of the target language. 2) Students will analyze and summarize authentic texts in the target language. 3) Students will write effective, original compositions demonstrating the ability to analyze, persuade and/or defend an opinion in the target language.
4) Students will apply critical thinking skills in comparisons of the cultures studied and their own. 5) Students will, if seeking teacher certification, demonstrate mastery of professional skills necessary to teach the target language. 6) Students will demonstrate mastery of linguistic and cultural skills necessary to pursue graduate study and/or careers. III. University Policies: Academic integrity is a responsibility of all university faculty and students. Faculty members promote academic integrity in multiple ways including instruction on the components of academic honesty, as well as abiding by university policy on penalties for cheating and plagiarism. IV. Definition of Academic Dishonesty: Academic dishonesty includes both cheating and plagiarism. Cheating includes but is not limited to (1) using or attempting to use unauthorized materials to aid in achieving a better grade on a component of a class; (2) the falsification or invention of any information, including citations, on an assigned exercise; and/or (3) helping or attempting to help another in an act of cheating or plagiarism. Plagiarism is presenting the words or ideas of another person as if they were your own. Examples of plagiarism are (1) submitting an assignment as if it were one's own work when, in fact, it is at least partly the work of another; (2) submitting a work that has been purchased or otherwise obtained from an Internet source or another source; and (3) incorporating the words or ideas of an author into one's paper without giving the author due credit. Please read the complete policy at http://www.sfasu.edu/policies/academic_integrity.asp V. Withheld Grades Semester Grades Policy (A-54): Ordinarily, at the discretion of the instructor of record and with the approval of the academic chair/director, a grade of WH will be assigned only if the student cannot complete the course work because of unavoidable circumstances. Students must complete the work within one calendar year from the end of the semester in which they receive a WH, or the grade automatically becomes an F. If students register for the same course in future terms the WH will automatically become an F and will be counted as a repeated course for the purpose of computing the grade point average. VI. Students with Disabilities: To obtain disability related accommodations, alternate formats and/or auxiliary aids, students with disabilities must contact the Office of Disability Services (ODS), Human Services Building, and Room 325, 468-3004 / 468-1004 (TDD) as early as possible in the semester. Once verified, ODS will notify the course instructor and outline the accommodation and/or auxiliary aids to be provided. Failure to request services in a timely manner may delay your accommodations. For additional information, go to http://www.sfasu.edu/disabilityservices/