Christina Isabelli-García, PhD

Illinois Wesleyan University

Intermediate Spanish Spanish 201 - Spring 2010

309-556-3174
309-556-3284 (fax)

Updated:  12/2009

Identidades: Exploraciones e interconexiones, 2nd ed.  Eds. Liskin-Gasparro, Lapuerta, Guzmán, Castells, 2009,
  with keycode for access to MySpanishLab
A bilingual dictionary (The New World)

OBJECTIVES
This course is designed to review grammar structures and to give students practice in using basic speaking, listening, reading and writing skills.  The in-class time will be devoted to oral skills (speaking and listening), while out-of-class time will be directed toward the development of reading and writing.  Therefore, class will be conducted in Spanish and every effort will be made to give each student as much opportunity as possible to speak.

The literary, artistic, historical and cultural components of the course are as important as the grammar.  While process skills and individual student opinion/reaction are what occupy daily classroom time, the specific information under discussion will also be tested.  In other words, the grammar is being used to convey important cultural information, which students are invited to learn and for which they will be held accountable.

By the end of this course, you should be able to do the following:

NOTE: This course includes an online component and your enrollment indicates your acceptance of this.

The Department of Hispanic Studies hires work-study students to serve as tutors for students of Spanish. Usually these are Spanish majors, many of whom have studied for many years and who may have returned from study in a Spanish-speaking country. They are available to go over compositions, workbook exercises, prepare for tests, answer personalized grammar problems, etc. The hours for the tutors are posted on the Language Resource Center (Buck 107) website.

All classes are conducted exclusively in Spanish. The purpose of this policy is to maximize your contact with the spoken language. Please ask me to slow down or repeat if you have not understood something. If you can't express something in Spanish the way you want to, try to think of a simpler way to get the same idea across.

Students are expected to turn in papers, make presentations and take tests on the date specified. Special arrangements may be made when justified by certain circumstances, but only when the professor has been consulted IN ADVANCE. Make careful note of announced office hours, as these are the best times to try to contact the professor. You may leave a message with the voice mail system, but that does not constitute consultation. Likewise, the nurse's list is considered information only, and does not, by itself, give permission to make up work missed due to illness.

A word about office hours: University professors spend a lot of time preparing class (think about how long it takes you to prepare a class presentation). This preparation takes place at home, in the library, and elsewhere. Office hours are times of the day that the professor announces him/herself available for other kinds of work: consultation with students, but also with other faculty, etc. Feel free to drop in or call during office hours, but if you know in advance that you are going to need time, let your professor know, either by leaving a voice message or by speaking briefly after class.

Students should be aware of Illinois Wesleyan University’s policy toward academic dishonesty. For clarification go to University Policies Concerning Student Conduct & Academic Integrity from the Student Handbook.

I will make myself available to discuss appropriate academic accommodations that you may require as a student with a disability.  Before course accommodations will be made, students may be required to provide documentation to the Associate Provost, 211 Holmes Hall.

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