AUSTIN COLLEGE

DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICAL AND MODERN LANGUAGES

SPAN 202A.............Spring, 2007

MWTHF, 12:30-1:20PM

(HC 213)

Instructor: Dr. Patrick Duffey, Associate Professor of Spanish

Office: AD 207A

Office Hours:  MW 4:30-5:30pm; F 1:30-2:30pm

Office Phone: 2364
 

HomePage Address:
http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/cml/pduffey/PD.html

texts, other resources, description of course, attendance, grading, academic integrity policy, course outline

Suite number: 61555

Email: pduffey@austincollege.edu

 

 

Required Texts:

1.  Punto y aparte, 3/e by Foerster and Lambright

2.  Punto y aparte Online Manual  by Foerster and Lambright

3.  Lecturas literarias para acompañar Punto y aparte by Lambright, Foerster, and Marcano-Ogando

I. Description of the course. Sp 202 is the fourth course in AC's Spanish language program. This course focuses on communicative skills. Class time will be devoted primarily to discussions of readings, oral practice, listening comprehension practice, and vocabulary acquisition. Students are expected to review grammar rules and forms outside of class. Most of the grammar encountered in this class will not be new to you. This is because the purpose of the course is not to learn new rules and forms, but rather to learn to apply the rules in communicative situations.

There are seven communicative goals for this course:

  • describing and comparing in detail
  • narrating in the present
  • narrating in the past
  • narrating in the future
  • giving advice, expressing opinions and reacting to dramatic events and situations
  • talking about likes and dislikes and explaining why
  • hypothesizing about both personal and impersonal topics

In both oral and written work, you will learn to support your opinions clearly and convincingly. The course will be taught entirely in Spanish.

II. Attendance. Regular attendance is especially important in language classes. Students may make up any exam, quiz, or other assignment only if the absence occurs as a result of participation in an official Austin College athletic or other event, a serious illness, or some other unavoidable circumstance beyond the student's control.

III. Grading.

Major exams (2)

30%

Final exam

20%

Compositions (2)

8%

Attendance/participation

6%

Oral component

20%

Quizzes

6%

Workbook

10%

 

N.B. Late homework will not be accepted unless it is due to circumstances beyond the student's control. If you must turn in an assignment late, please let me know in advance.

A. Major exams (30%)

There will be two major exams, each covering two chapters.

B. Final exam (20%)

The final exam will be comprehensive.

C. Writing assignments (8%)

Each student will write two compositions during the semester, each one of 500 words. The topics of these compositions will be specified later.

D. Oral component (20%)

Every Friday during the semester, small groups of students will meet with me for 10-15 minute conversations, during which they will discuss a short story from  Lecturas literarias para acompañar Punto y aparte.   I will divide the class into two conversation groups, Grupo A and Grupo B.

E. Vocabulary and other quizzes (6%)

Throughout the semester, I will give quizzes on both vocabulary and grammatical structures and forms.

F. Workbook (10%)

You will be responsible for completing the workbook assignments in the Punto y aparte Online Manual, available at http://books.quia.com.  Please enroll in the Quia course for SPAN 202A, following the instructions I sent to you by email, or available at this web address: http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/cml/pduffey/instrquia202.htm  .  The Online Manual allows you to complete both the written and oral portions of the workbook on-line. 

There are several advantages to the on-line workbook.  It allows students to receive immediate feedback, and it allows students to correct their errors.  Students  can submit an exercise multiple times, and it will score the best effort, providing the student with an opportunity to practice the grammar, which is the whole point of the workbook.  The on-line workbook allows one to submit one's work to the instructor from any computer.  It automatically records it in the instructor's gradebook, and it allows the student to see what assignments they've already turned in.  The due dates for each assignment are listed on-line.  For Chapters 1-6, there is an assignment that has students read an article in a Spanish-language newspaper.  There are links to these newspapers within the on-line manual itself.

IV. Academic integrity policy

It is understood that all students are subject to the rules of conduct set forth in the Austin College academic integrity policy. It is also understood that the instructor reserves the right to modify this syllabus as needed during the semester.

V.  Other resources:

Online Learning Center for Punto y aparte, 3/e  (http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073124486/student_view0/index.html)

Diccionario VOX Advanced Inglés/Español

The point of this class is to teach you as much Spanish as possible. If you want to learn more, and possibly earn some extra credit, here's how:

1. Get a Spanish-language pen pal via the internet. Go to
Intercambio Cultural Español Inglés http://www.lingolex.com/ceengf.htm or http://www.LanguageTrade.com/ LanguageTrade™ Using this site, it is possible to speak to people in Hispanic countries via Yahoo Instant Messenger and your computer's microphone.

2. Practice grammatical structures on the web:
http://mld.ursinus.edu/~jarana/Ejercicios/
©Juan Ramón de Arana
http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/exercises/index.html
©Barbara Kuzcun Nelson
http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ecall/ejercicios.html
©Juan Manuel Soto Arriví

VI. El bosquejo del curso.

PYA=Punto y aparte
LL=Lecturas literarias para acompañar Punto y aparte
WKB=Punto y aparte Online Manual

Semana 1

M Jan 29   Introducción. Programa. Repaso de los puntos clave. Para Empezar, 1-11.
Tarea: 1. Escribe una "autobiografía" de 150 palabras.
2.  Inscríbete en Quia, http://books.quia.com

W Jan 30  PYA 12-15.
Tarea: WKB, "Para empezar (ALL)," para lunes

TH Feb 1    Cultura, conversación
Tarea: WKB, "Para empezar (ALL)," para lunes

F Feb 2    CONVERSACION I-grupo A (AD 207A)

Semana 2

M Feb 5          PYA 17-22
Tarea: WKB, Capítulo 1 (ALL) para el 19 de Feb.

W Feb 7         PYA 23-32
Tarea: WKB, Capítulo 1 (ALL) para el 19 de Feb.

TH Feb 8    Cultura, conversación
Tarea: WKB, Capítulo 1 (ALL) para el 19 de Feb.

F Feb 9  CONVERSACION I-grupo B

Semana 3

M  Feb 12      PYA 33-39
Tarea: 1. WKB, Capítulo 1 (ALL) para el 19 de Feb.

2. Lectura: PYA 36-38

W Feb 14       Capítulo 1 Lectura. Preparar las fichas, PYA 40-41.
Tarea: WKB, Capítulo 1 (ALL) para el 19 de Feb.

TH Feb 15    Cultura, conversación y composición

F Feb 16  CONVERSACION II-grupo A

Semana 4

M  Feb 19         Capítulo 2 (43-49)
Tarea: WKB, Capítulo 2  (ALL) para el primero de marzo

W Feb 21   PYA 50-56
Tarea: WKB, Capítulo 2  (ALL) para el primero de marzo

TH Feb 22    Cultura, conversación y composición
Tarea: WKB, Capítulo 2  (ALL) para el primero de marzo

F  Feb 23   CONVERSACION II-grupo B

Semana 5

M Feb 26            PYA 56-63
Tarea: WKB, Capítulo 2  (ALL) para el primero de marzo

W Feb 28         Capítulo 2.  Lectura PYA 63-68.
Tarea: 1. Estudia para Examen I
2. WKB, Capítulo 2  (ALL) para el primero de marzo

TH Mar 1    Cultura, conversación y composición

F Mar 2            EXAMEN I

Semana 6

M Mar 5           Capítulo 3 PYA 70-77
Tarea: WKB, Capítulo 3  (ALL) para el 15 de marzo

W Mar 7              Capítulo 3 PYA 80-86.
Tarea: WKB, Capítulo 3  (ALL) para el 15 de marzo

TH Mar 8    Cultura, conversación y composición
Tarea: WKB, Capítulo 3  (ALL) para el 15 de marzo

F Mar 9      CONVERSACION III-grupo A

Semana 7

M Mar 12            Capítulo 3 Las fichas. PYA 87-92
Tarea: 1.  WKB, Capítulo 3  (ALL) para el 15 de marzo
2. Lectura, PYA 90-93

W Mar 14             Lectura, PYA 90-3. Capítulo 4 PYA 97-102.
Tarea: WKB, Capítulo 3  (ALL) para el 15 de marzo

TH Mar 15    Cultura, conversación y composición

F Mar 16   CONVERSACION III-grupo B   

SPRING BREAK

Semana 8
M Mar 26           Capítulo 4 PYA 103-108.
Tarea: WKB, Capítulo 4  (ALL) para el 2 de abril

W Mar 28         Capítulo 4 Lectura. PYA 109-113.
Tarea: 1.  WKB, Capítulo 4  (ALL) para el 2 de abril
2. Lectura, PYA 114-119.

TH Mar 29  Cultura, conversación y composición
Tarea: WKB, Capítulo 4  (ALL) para el 2 de abril

F Mar 30           Conversación IV-grupo A

Semana 9

M Apr 2               Las fichas. REPASO.

Tarea: Estudia para Examen II

W Apr 4              Examen II

TH Apr 5   Cultura, conversación y composición
Tarea: WKB, Capítulo 5 (ALL) para el 19 de abril

F Apr 6           Conversación IV-grupo B

Semana 10

M Apr 9    Capítulo 5 PYA 126-131.
Tarea: WKB, Capítulo 5 (ALL) para el 19 de abril

W Apr 11         Capítulo 5 PYA 132-144.
Tarea: 1.  WKB, Capítulo 5 (ALL) para el 19 de abril

2. Lectura (para lunes) PYA 144-152.

TH Apr 12  Cultura, conversación y composición
Tarea: WKB, Capítulo 5 (ALL) para el 19 de abril

F Apr 13    CONVERSACION V-grupo A

Semana 11

M Apr 16        Las fichas. Lectura PYA 152-155.
Tarea: WKB, Capítulo 5 (ALL) para el 19 de abril

W Apr 18   Cultura, conversación y composición
Tarea: WKB, Capítulo 5 (ALL) para el 19 de abril

TH Apr 19  Cultura, conversación y composición
Tarea: WKB, Capítulo 6 (ALL) para el 10 de mayo

F Apr 20                CONVERSACION V-grupo B

Semana 12

M Apr 23           Capítulo 6 PYA 158-162.
Tarea: WKB, Capítulo 6 (ALL) para el 10 de mayo

W Apr 25     PYA  163-168    
 Tarea: WKB, Capítulo 6 (ALL) para el 10 de mayo

TH Apr 26   PYA 169-175
Tarea: WKB, Capítulo 6 (ALL) para el 10 de mayo

F Apr 27                 Conversación VI-grupo A

Semana 13

M Apr 30                  La música y los bailes latinoamericanos
Tarea: WKB, Capítulo 6 (ALL) para el 10 de mayo

W May 2              Las fichas.  PYA 176-180
Tarea: WKB, Capítulo 6 (ALL) para el 10 de mayo

TH  May 3           REPASO para el examen.
Tarea: WKB, Capítulo 6 (ALL) para el 10 de mayo

F  May 4                  Conversación VI-grupo B

F May 11        9-11am       EXAMEN FINAL