Syllabus, Graduate School, USDA
Objective
To enhance the student's understanding, speaking, reading, and writing of basic Spanish in the context of contemporary Hispanic culture.
Learning Outcome
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to converse about everyday situations, follow and participate in simple conversations between Spanish speakers, express desires and preferences, emotions and indifference, hold a phone conversation and describe events and personal experiences in the past tense.
Instruction
Major topics include family, desires, preferences, instructions, commands, invitations, who and what you know, household chores, daily routines, food, likes, dislikes, discuss events, suggestions, weather, past events, object pronouns, present tense of stem-changing verbs, direct and indirect objects, saber and conocer, reflexive and reciprocal constructions, gustar, preterite of regular and irregular verbs, personal and the passive se.
Methods of instruction include grammar presentations, group conversation, listening practice, and examinations.
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