SPANSH 10 - Introduction to the Spanish-speaking World I: Histories, Cultures, and Traditions

Spanish 10 is the first course in the Beginning Spanish sequence (SPAN 10-SPAN 11). This course is designed for students with little or no previous experience in Spanish. Through interactions with peers, instructors, and native Spanish-speakers around the world, students in this class discuss and analyze authentic multimodal texts (e.g., written, audio, audiovisual, visual) from various sources (e.g., social media, newspapers, museums). Through these interactions and analyses, students learn frequent vocabulary and develop a wide array of linguistic functions, such as the ability to make basic descriptions or to narrate in the present tense. By the end of the semester, students: a) will have developed basic linguistic competence in Spanish, and b) will have gained some understanding of the cultures and worldviews of Spanish-speaking communities in the United States, Latin America, and Spain.