Course Description: Spanish 201

201 Course Content:

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

The following topics are presented in 201:

• Nature: the environment, conservation
• City Life: daily chores, money and banking, the post office
• Well-being: illnesses, exercise, nutrition
• Work: professions, the workplace, job interviews
• Arts: arts, movies, television
• News: current events, politics, the media, natural disasters

In addition, students will read several literary texts, to be selected by the professor.

201 Course Objectives:

• Carry on a conversation (3-8 minutes) about familiar topics from Spanish 101-201
• Understand brief conversations (3-8 minutes), with some repetition, about familiar topics from Spanish 101-201
• Read brief texts (1-2 pages) about familiar topics from Spanish 101-201
• Read selected short literary texts, with the help of a dictionary
• Write brief compositions (1-2 pages) about familiar topics from Spanish 101-201 and selected literary texts, with the help of a dictionary

201 Course Expectations:

In order to meet these goals, students must:

• Recognize all and master most of the vocabulary in chapters 13-18 of Vistas (all the verb lists are considered active vocabulary as well)
• Understand and recognize all the grammatical concepts from chapters 13-18
• Master usage and production of the following grammatical concepts:

  Usage of past participles
  Formation and uses of the present and past perfect tenses (indicative)
  Formation and uses of the subjunctive mood (present and past tenses)
  Formation of the perfect tenses
  Formation of the future and conditional tenses
  Formation of sentences with si clauses