This course is the entry level for the 'Spanish for Bilingual Students' track. It will cater to the specific academic and communicative needs of two types of students: those described as 'heritage speakers/learners' and those who are 'advanced non-native speaker of Spanish'. This course is exclusively designed for those students and its purpose is to build on the students' existence competence of the native language and to further develop oral, written, reading, and cultural competence for use in different communicative situations.

This course is the entry level for the “Spanish for Bilingual Students” track. This track will cater to the specific academic and communicative needs of two types of students: a) those described as “heritage speakers/learners” and b) those who are “advanced non-native speaker of Spanish”. This course is exclusively designed to build on these students’ existing competence of the native language and to further develop oral, written, reading, and cultural competence for use in different communicative situations. Writing and grammatical practices are contextualized in situations meaningful to these speakers. SPA 205 is the equivalent to SPA 203 and fulfills the fourth semester language requirement. This course is taught entirely in Spanish.