Spanish Conversation
Overview
This course is also intended to increase students’ community engagement and knowledge of the Hispanic culture and may include an experiential learning component.
Only Spanish is spoken in class.
1 Participation in communicative activities in class: conversations, dialogues, group discussions, interviews and interactive presentations.
2 Analysis of audiovisual materials (e.g. films, short documentaries, videos showing authentic language interactions) by completing comprehension and communication activities relevant to their content.
3 Completion of oral tasks such as describing events, experiences and wishes, and expressing opinions and doubt, as well as agreement and disagreement.
4 Study of the vocabulary in context, as well as idiomatic and colloquial expressions.
5 Brief review of grammatical structures as introduced by the materials presented in class.
6 Increase of cultural awareness through the materials analyzed in class and/or participation in a community-engaged learning experience.
Class activities may include: conversational activities, discussions of readings and audio-visual materials, oral and aural comprehension and pronunciation exercises, interactive oral presentations, review of syntactic and lexical structures, vocabulary building activities, and one-on-one exchanges with native Spanish speakers.
Evaluation will be based on learning outcomes and course content. Evaluation may include, but need not be limited to, the following tasks:
Class attendance and participation; individual or group oral presentations in class on an assigned topic; community engaged (experiential learning) hours and short reflections on the experience; vocabulary diaries and quizzes, and oral exams.
Sample grade breakdown for this course:
Participation, attendance and preparation: 20%
Oral presentations: 20%
Experiential learning participation and reflections: 20%
Diary of Expressions/Vocabulary: 10%
Mid-term oral exam: 15%
Final oral exam: 15%
Total: 100%
No single evaluation will be worth more than 20%.
By successfully completing this course, students will:
1 Improve their oral communication skills, i.e., intonation, pronunciation and conversation patterns in Spanish and gain confidence when interacting in the target language.
2 Gain fluency in Spanish to describe experiences, events, wishes and to express opinions and doubt, agreement and disagreement.
3 Expand their vocabulary and knowledge of idiomatic grammatical structures in Spanish in order to apply them to a variety of conversational settings.
4 Become familiar with different Spanish accents, social registers and regional uses and able to use intonation and pronunciation patterns appropriately.
5 Expand their cultural knowledge of the Hispanic community and the cultures of the Hispanic world.
Upon successful completion, students are expected to demonstrate oral and aural skills and abilities as independent users of the language.
The instructor may choose either an intermediate level conversation textbook such as:
Sandstedt, L and Kite, R. (2013). Conversación y repaso: Intermediate Spanish (Eleventh edition). Boston: Cengage Learning.
or compile his/her own materials.
Requisites
Prerequisites
Minimum Grade of C in either Grade 12 Spanish or MODL 1152 (or Assessment).
Corequisites
No corequisite courses.
Equivalencies
No equivalent courses.
Course Guidelines
Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
Course Transfers
These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca
| Institution | Transfer details for MODL 2250 |
|---|---|
| Camosun College (CAMO) | CAMO SPAN 206 (3) |
| College of the Rockies (COTR) | COTR SPAN 2XX (3) |
| Emily Carr University of Art & Design (EC) | EC HUMN 200 lev (3) |
| Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) | KPU SPAN 2200 (3) |
| Okanagan College (OC) | OC SPAN 203 (3) |
| Simon Fraser University (SFU) | SFU SPAN 204 (3) |
| Thompson Rivers University (TRU) | TRU SPAN 2150 (3) |
| University of British Columbia - Okanagan (UBCO) | UBCO SPAN_O 203 (3) |
| University of British Columbia - Vancouver (UBCV) | UBCV SPAN_V 206 (3) |
| University of Northern BC (UNBC) | UNBC INTS 281 (3) |
| University of Victoria (UVIC) | UVIC SPAN 2XX (1.5) |
| Vancouver Community College (VCC) | VCC UNSP 2XXX (3) |
| Vancouver Island University (VIU) | VIU SPAN 2nd (3) |
Course Offerings
Winter 2025
| CRN | Days | Instructor | Status | More details |
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CRN
17287
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Tue Thu | Instructor last name
Lara Aguilar
Instructor first name
Jose
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Course status
Open
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