SYLLABUS
SPN2200 Intermediate Spanish
Spring, 2002
Section: _____ Meeting Time: ______ Days: ___________ Bldg: ___________ Rm: ____________
Instructor: ___________________ Office: ________ Office Hours: ___________
Telephone: ____________________ E-Mail: _________________
Course Description: SPN 2200, Intermediate Spanish, is the third of a three-semester sequence of courses designed for students with little or no prior knowledge of Spanish. The course emphasizes the four communicative skills of listening, reading, speaking, and writing in a culturally authentic context. Basic grammar skills are also introduced. Students will make oral presentations, read short texts, and write brief compositions in Spanish.
Required Course Materials: D.C. Heath and Company: Mundo 21, 2nd edition and workbook. It is highly recommended that the student purchase a good English-Spanish Dictionary
Objectives: In this course you will expand your knowledge of the culture, history, and daily lives of the Spanish-speaking peoples of the world. By the semester’s end you will be able to read, write, and speak Spanish on a basic level. You will also learn to identify current and past contributions made by Spanish-speaking peoples to world literature, art, music, science and commerce.
Attendance: In order for you to meet these objectives it will be necessary for you to attend class when they meet. Class meets four days per week with the instructor. You will be allowed up to four (4) unexcused absences with no questions asked. Excused absences are the following: participation in a scheduled event as a member of a university-sponsored athletic/scholastic team (official absence form required); religious holidays; illness or accident (accident report or FSU health center/doctor’s note required); or death in the immediate family.
***Students enrolled in classes that meet for more than 50 minutes during a session are reminded that each 50 minutes counts as a single class. For example if you were to miss a class that meets MW or TR from 6:45 to 8:25 you would miss the equivalent of two 50-minute periods or two classes.
***Students are responsible for making up all work missed during absences. Students may not make up graded work for unexcused absences.
*Each unexcused absence after the first four will reduce the final grade number - to be calculated on a scale of 100% - by two (2) percentage points.
*Excuses for absences must be submitted within two (2) weeks of the time of return.
Disabled Students: Students with disabilities needing academic accommodations should register with and provide documentation to the Student Disability Resource Center (SDRC) and bring a letter to the instructor from the SDRC indicating a need for academic accommodations. This should be done the first week of classes. This syllabus and other course materials are available in alternative format upon request.
Evaluation: Except in the case of excused absences or extreme extenuating circumstances the following will be the policy of this class: 1) late assignments will not be excepted, 2) there will be no make-ups of quizzes or exams, 3) no quizzes or exams will be given early. A passing grade for SPN 2200 is a C- (70). The final grade in this course will be determined from the following components:
Homework/Participation.................. 15% Grading Scale
(Includes workbook and cultural requirement*) 94-100 A 77-79 C+
Writing/Compositions (3)................. 15% 90-93 A- 74-76 C
Speaking/Orals (3)............................ 15% 87-89 B+ 70-73 C-
Quizzes............................................. 25% 84-86 B 67-69 D+
Midterm............................................ 15% 80-83 B- 64-66 D
Final.................................................. 15% 60-63 D-
00-59 F
*Each student must attend 1 event that focuses on Hispanic Culture.
Spanish Language Program Director: Dr. Jo Stepp-Greany 302B Diffenbaugh Telephone: 644-4938
TA Office 001 Dodd Hall 644-1506
* This class meets four (4) days per week in the classroom.
** Please be aware of the fact that this syllabus is a “flexible” syllabus and, due to pedagogical considerations, it may be necessary to modify it during the course of the semester. Any changes, however, will be minimal.
It is possible that students in this class may be recorded or video taped in the course of the semester for purposes of evaluation of either class assignments or of the teacher.
ACTIVIDADES
Unidad 1
Functions/Context: Descriptions and point of view/expressing opinions and views about historical events
Cultural topics: Origins of Hispanics in the U.S./Political and social issues concerning Hispanics.
Grammar: Ser and Estar/descrip. adjectives/stem-changing, spell-changing and irreg. verbs
Quiz # 1, Unidad 1/1 Mundo 21, and 15/3 Dímelo Tuesday, 22 January
Quiz # 2, Unidades 1/2 and 1/3 Tuesday, 5 February. Composition 1: Composition #1 due Monday, 28 January.
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Week Of: Clase Text/Unidad Workbook Special Assignments
7-10 de enero
Clase 1 Review, Cap.15/1 Dímelo Tú
Clase 2 Review, Cap.15/1 Dímelo Tú
Clase 3 Review, Cap.15/3 Dímelo Tú
Clase 4 Review, Cap 15/3 Dímelo Tú
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Week Of: Clase Unidad Workbook Special Assignments
14-17 de enero
Clase 1 Unidad 1/1 pp 15-48
Clase 2 Unidad 1/1
Clase 3 Unidad 1/1
Clase 4 Unidad 1/1
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Week Of: Clase Unidad Workbook Special Assignments
21-25 de sep
Clase 1 Holiday- Martín Luther King
Clase 2 Quiz 1, Unidad 1/1 and 15/1 y 15/3 of Dímelo Tú .
Clase 3 Unidad 1/2
Clase 4 Unidad 1/2 (Skip pp. 49-52 in text)
Read “Cuando Era Puertorriqueña”)
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Week Of: Clase Unidad Workbook Special Assignments
28 de enero-
1 de febrero
Clase 1 Unidad 1/2 Composition 1 due
Clase 2 Unidad 1/3 refer to pp. 56-57, 70-71
Clase 3 Unidad 1/3 .
Clase 4 Unidad 1/3
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Week Of: Clase Unidad Workbook Special Assignments
4-8 de febrero
Clase 1 Unidad 1/3
Clase 2 Quiz 2 Unidades 1/2 &1/3
Clase 3 Unidad 2/1
Clase 4 Unidad 2/1
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Unidad 2:
Functions/Context: Imaginative descriptions/talk about historical and contemporary Spaniards.
Cultural Topics: History and issues concerning Spain. Grammar: Preterite/Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns/gustar/infinitives/conditional tense
Composition 2 due 27 February
Quiz #3: Unidades 2/1 and 2/2, Wednesday, 20 February.
Midterm, Unidades 1 and 2 and 15/3 Dímelo, Thursday, 28 February.
Oral Evaluation: Topic to be assigned by instructor.
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Week Of: Clase Unidad Workbook Special Assignments
11-15 de febrero
Clase 1 Unidad 2/1 pp. 49-82 Oral Evaluation 1 due
Clase 2 Unidad 2/1 Oral Evaluation 1 due
Clase 3 Unidad 2/2 Oral Evaluation 1 due
Clase 4 Unidad 2/2 _____________________________________________________________________________________
Week Of: Clase Unidad Workbook Special Assignments
18-21 febrero
Clase 1 Unidad 2/2
Clase 2 Unidad 2/2
Clase 3 Quiz 3, Unidad 2/1 and 2/2
Clase 4 Unidad 2/3
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Week Of Clase Unidad Workbook Special Assignments
25-28 de febrero
Clase 1 Unidad 2/3
Clase 2 Unidad 2/3
Clase 3 Repaso Composition 2 due,
Clase 4 Midterm, Unidades 1 y 2 refer to pp. 110-111.
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Unidad 3:
Functions/Context: Pre-reading/contrast and analogy
Cultural Topics: Colonial Hispanic America and Independence
Grammar: Preterite and Imperfect/Possessive adj. and pronouns/indef. and negative expressions/por - para
Oral Evaluation 2: -- topic to be announced by instructor
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Week Of: Clase Unidad Workbook Special Assignments
4-7 de marzo
Clase 1 Unidad 3/1
Clase 2 Unidad 3/1 pp. 83-118
Clase 3 Unidad 3/1
Clase 4 Unidad 3/1 Oral Evaluation 2 due
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11-15 de marzo SPRING BREAK
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Week Of: Clase Unidad Workbook Special Assignments
18-21 de marzo
Clase 1 Unidad 3/2 Oral Evaluation 2 due
Clase 2 Unidad 3/2 Oral Evaluation 2 due
Clase 3 Unidad 3/2
Clase 4 Unidad 3/2
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Unidad 4:
Functions and Context: Describing functions/Discuss historical and contemporary Hispanic figures.
Cultural Topics: The Caribbean/Spanish-American War/Cuban Revolution
Grammar: Past Participles/Present Subjunctive/Commands
Oral Evaluation 3: Topic to be announced by instructor.
Quiz # 4: Unidades 3/1 & 3/2, Monday, 25 March.
Composition #3: Tuesday, 2 April
Quiz # 5: Unidad 3/3 and 4/1, Tuesday, 9 April.
Final Exam: Capítulos 1-4, Monday April 22, 3:00-5:00
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Week Of: Clase Unidad Workbook Special Assignments
25-28 de marzo
Clase 1 Quiz 4, Unidades 3/1 y 3/2
Clase 2 Unidad 3/3
Clase 3 Unidad 3/3
Clase 4 Unidad 3/3
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Week Of: Clase Unidad Workbook Special Assignments
1-4 de abril
Clase 1 Unidad 4/1 pp 119-152 Composition 3 due
Clase 2 Unidad 4/1 refer to pp. 152-153
Clase 3 Unidad 4/1
Clase 4 Unidad 4/1
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Week Of: Clase Unidad Workbook Special Assignments
8-11 de abril
Clase 1 Quiz 5, Unidades 3/3 y 4/1
Clase 2 Unidad 4/2
Clase 3 Unidad 4/2
Clase 4 Unidad 4/2 Oral Evaluation 3 due
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Week Of: Clase Unidad Workbook Special Assignments
15-18 de abril
Clase 1 Unidad 4/3 Oral Evaluation 3 due
Clase 2 Unidad 4/3 Oral Evaluation 3 due
Clase 3 Unidad 4/3
Clase 4 Unidad 4/3
**Final Exam for SPN 2200 is on Monday, 22 April, from 3:00-5:00 p.m. Rooms TBA later.
Academic Honor Code
Honor Statement:
The Academic Honor system of Florida State University is based on the premise that each student has the responsibility (1) to uphold the highest standards of academic integrity in the student’s own work, (2) to refuse to tolerate violations of academic integrity in the University community, and (3) to foster a high sense of integrity and social responsibility on the part of the University community.
Students are expected to uphold the Academic Honor Code published in The Florida State University Bulletin and the Student Handbook.
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I have read and thoroughly understand the expectations of the syllabus for SPN 2200.
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(Signature of Student) (date)
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(Printed Name)
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