Course Description: Spanish 102

102 Course Content:

Required text:Vistas 3 rd ed, Blanco and Donley. Boston: Vistas Higher Learning, 2008

The following topics are presented in 102:

• Daily Routines: personal hygiene and other daily routines, telling time
• Food: types of food, describing foods, meals
• Festivities: parties, celebrations, personal relationships
• Doctor’s office: health care, the body, medical conditions
• Technology: home electronics, computers, automobiles
• The Home: parts of the house, household chores, table settings

 102 Course Objectives:

• Understand classroom instructions from professor
• Carry on a short conversation (2-6 minutes) about any of the topics presented in Spanish 101-102
• Understand brief conversations (2-6 minutes), with some repetition, about familiar topics from Spanish 101-102
• Read brief texts (1 page) about familiar topics from Spanish 101-102
• Write brief compositions (1 page) about familiar topics from Spanish 101-102, with the help of a dictionary

102 Course Expectations:

In order to meet the course objectives, students must:

• Recognize all and master most of the vocabulary in chapters 7-12 of Vistas (all the verb lists are considered active vocabulary as well)
• Understand and recognize all the grammatical structures from chapters 7-12
• Master usage and production of the following grammatical concepts:

  Reflexive verbs Gustar and verbs like gustar
  Object pronouns
  Formation of the preterit tense: regular, stem-changing, and irregular verbs
  Comparisons and superlatives
  Formation of the imperfect tense
  Basic differences between uses of preterit and imperfect tenses
  Basic differences between uses of por and para