SPAN 305: Spanish for The Professions.
Designed for students interested in developing a functional use of Spanish for the professions (business, education, law, medicine, social work, etc.), from a Hispanic cultural perspective. Students will have an opportunity to practice and develop their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. The Spanish-speaking world will provide the cultural context, and the area of business the content area.Minimum units: 4
MLO 1 Language Proficiency.
Students are able to communicate effectively in Spanish in three modes: interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational, and in a culturally appropriate manner in a variety of social and professional settings and circumstances at the Advanced Low level of language proficiency, according to ACTFL Guidelines.
1.1 Speaking ability: The student is able to satisfy the requirements of every day situations and routine school and work requirements. Can communicate facts and talk casually about topics of current public and personal interest, using general vocabulary. The student can be understood without difficulty by native speakers.
1.2 Listening ability: The student is able to understand main ideas and most details of connected discourse on a variety of topics beyond the immediacy situation.
1.3 Reading ability: The student is able to read prose selections of several paragraphs in length, particularly if printed clearly and if prose is in familiar sentence patterns. Reader understands the main ideas and facts but may miss some details.
1.4 Writing ability: The student is bale to write routine social correspondence and join sentences in simple discourse of a least several paragraphs in length on familiar topics, and is able to express him/herself simply with some circumlocution. Good control of the most frequently used syntactic structures, but makes frequent errors in producing complex sentences. Writing is understandable to natives not used to the writing of nonnatives.
MLO 2 Linguistics:
Students develop their knowledge of fundamental concepts in the fields of Hispanic and Applied Linguistics, and are able to apply them in the completion of research papers and data-driven small-scale research studies pertaining current issues in these areas.
Course Narrative
In this class I learned about MLO 1 Language Proficiency in communicating in the Spanish language through its three modes: interpersonal, interpretative, and presentational. In relation to the interpersonal . In class we practice talking about common topics such as historical events in different Latin American countries. For example, discussing a place was good for vacationing, what attractions this country has, what you needed to visit, your accent, its location, etc. I practiced with my classmates explaining what we had just read in a structured way and from a critical point of view. We had a clear and precise conversation highlighting the main ideas of historical events or news of the country. In relation to interpretation, we could read a long text or information obtained from the Internet on some topic and give our interpretation of what was important in the text. And finally, in the presentational aspect, I had the opportunity to make an onigram of a country, where I explained all the most important things about this country and presented it to the class. In this way, I fulfilled the presentational aspect, which is knowing how to present the analyzed topic to an audience.
In relation to MLO 2, when we talk about the culture of a country in class we relate it to how these concepts: products that are in reality the perspectives of the people of a country, another term is practices that are related to social situations in relation to perspectives as well. And finally, knowing how to interact in a family or non-family context in a given situation.
Designed for students interested in developing a functional use of Spanish for the professions (business, education, law, medicine, social work, etc.), from a Hispanic cultural perspective. Students will have an opportunity to practice and develop their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. The Spanish-speaking world will provide the cultural context, and the area of business the content area.Minimum units: 4
MLO 1 Language Proficiency.
Students are able to communicate effectively in Spanish in three modes: interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational, and in a culturally appropriate manner in a variety of social and professional settings and circumstances at the Advanced Low level of language proficiency, according to ACTFL Guidelines.
1.1 Speaking ability: The student is able to satisfy the requirements of every day situations and routine school and work requirements. Can communicate facts and talk casually about topics of current public and personal interest, using general vocabulary. The student can be understood without difficulty by native speakers.
1.2 Listening ability: The student is able to understand main ideas and most details of connected discourse on a variety of topics beyond the immediacy situation.
1.3 Reading ability: The student is able to read prose selections of several paragraphs in length, particularly if printed clearly and if prose is in familiar sentence patterns. Reader understands the main ideas and facts but may miss some details.
1.4 Writing ability: The student is bale to write routine social correspondence and join sentences in simple discourse of a least several paragraphs in length on familiar topics, and is able to express him/herself simply with some circumlocution. Good control of the most frequently used syntactic structures, but makes frequent errors in producing complex sentences. Writing is understandable to natives not used to the writing of nonnatives.
MLO 2 Linguistics:
Students develop their knowledge of fundamental concepts in the fields of Hispanic and Applied Linguistics, and are able to apply them in the completion of research papers and data-driven small-scale research studies pertaining current issues in these areas.
Course Narrative
In this class I learned about MLO 1 Language Proficiency in communicating in the Spanish language through its three modes: interpersonal, interpretative, and presentational. In relation to the interpersonal . In class we practice talking about common topics such as historical events in different Latin American countries. For example, discussing a place was good for vacationing, what attractions this country has, what you needed to visit, your accent, its location, etc. I practiced with my classmates explaining what we had just read in a structured way and from a critical point of view. We had a clear and precise conversation highlighting the main ideas of historical events or news of the country. In relation to interpretation, we could read a long text or information obtained from the Internet on some topic and give our interpretation of what was important in the text. And finally, in the presentational aspect, I had the opportunity to make an onigram of a country, where I explained all the most important things about this country and presented it to the class. In this way, I fulfilled the presentational aspect, which is knowing how to present the analyzed topic to an audience.
In relation to MLO 2, when we talk about the culture of a country in class we relate it to how these concepts: products that are in reality the perspectives of the people of a country, another term is practices that are related to social situations in relation to perspectives as well. And finally, knowing how to interact in a family or non-family context in a given situation.