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  Course: SPA 112
  Title:Spanish Language II
  Long Title:
  Course Description:Expands students’ interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational communicative abilities in the language across the disciplines. Integrates these skills with the study of the cultures in which the language is used. Offers a foundation in the analysis of culture and develops intercultural communicative strategies.
  Min Credit:5
  Max Credit:

  Course Notes: Note: Competencies and Outline entered from Core Transfer
   C: Documents. A new course template exists and will be
   C: submitted for review.
  Origin Notes: ACC
  Course Notes: Revised dscrptn,cmptncs, outln entered 11/9/11 LK

 STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
 
 1. Interpret authentic texts of various types across disciplines and communities to identify main ideas, key words and supporting details and make comparisons between target and native cultures.
  2. Engage in conversation to exchange information and discuss ideas and opinions concerning familiar and interdisciplinary topics as well as contemporary issues.
  3. Present ideas and information orally and in writing on cultural, interdisciplinary and contemporary topics, acquired from interaction and research.
  4. Develop understanding of the concept of culture as well as its dynamic and heterogeneous nature through comparison and analysis of the native and target cultures.
  5. Recognize and evaluate cultural stereotypes and generalizations by analyzing them in relationship to evidence and social interaction.


 TOPICAL OUTLINE:
 
 I. Interpretive Communication Topics
  a. Narration
  b. Advanced Description
  c. Academic and Professional Topics
  II. Interpretive Communication Strategies
  a. Activate background knowledge
  b. Recognize cognates
  c. Take notes
  d. Predict content
  e. Skim and scan
  f. Recognize visual cues and tone
  g. Recognize word families and deduce meanings from base words
  h. Identify markers of coherence
  i. Clarify meaning by asking questions
  j. Collaborate to negotiate meaning
  k. Apply self-monitoring techniques (verification of predictions, noting difficulty . . .)
  l. Identify genre and typical patterns and linguistic formulas
  III. Interpersonal Communication Topics
   a. Asking questions
  b. Formal and informal modes of address
  c. Daily routines and schedules
  d. Comparisons of people and things
  e. Description
  f. Express likes, dislikes and emotions
   g. Discuss life events
  h. Give directions, instructions and advice
  i. Make and respond to invitations
  IV. Interpersonal Communication Strategies
  a. Initiate, maintain and close conversation
  b. Differentiate between formal versus informal situations
  c. Negotiate meaning by paraphrasing, circumlocution and self-correcting
  d. Elicit and clarify information by asking questions
  e. React to other’s ideas
  f. Ask for clarification
  g. Goal-setting
  h. Self-assessment
  V. Presentational Communication Topics
   a. Art and artists
  b. Work and leisure
  c. Experiences
  VI. Presentational Communication Strategies
   a. Audience and purpose
   b. Brainstorming, diagramming, outlining
   c. Summarizing
   d. Comparing
   e. Using examples
   f. Including relevant details
   g. Agreement accuracy
  h. Using linking words
  i. Sequencing ideas and sentences
  j. Imitating model sentences
  VII. Intercultural Communication Topics
  a. Concept of culture: products, practices and perspectives
  b. Cultural lens and reflection on native culture
  c. Stereotypes and generalizations
  d. Developmental stages of intercultural sensitivity
  VIII. Intercultural Communication Strategies
  a. Explore resources:
   i. Get to know your community
   ii. Internet and library resources
   iii. Native speakers
   iv. Academic, career and interdisciplinary interests
   b. Evaluate sources
  c. Analyze and reconstruct cultural perspectives through research
 
 



 Course Offered At:

  Arapahoe Community College ACC
  Community College of Aurora CCA
  Colorado Community College Sys CCCS
  Community College of Denver CCD
  Colorado Northwestern CC CNCC
  Front Range Community College FRCC
  Lamar Community College LCC
  Morgan Community College MCC
  Northeastern Junior College NJC
  Otero College OJC
  Pueblo Community College PCC
  Pikes Peak State College PPCC
  Red Rocks Community College RRCC
  Trinidad State College TSJC
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