Continuation of SPA 201. Not open to students who have credit for SPA 242.

This course is designed to advance students' knowledge of Spanish at the intermediate level by fine-tuning the skills of reading, speaking, listening, and writing. The goal of the course will be to focus on useful vocabulary, to practice functional grammar, to further explore cross- cultural analysis and to develop students' communicative competence in Spanish. Not open to Students from SPA 102 or 103. This course is designed for students' transition directly from high school Spanish to second-year college Spanish.

This course is designed to advance students' knowledge of Spanish at the intermediate level by fine-tuning the skills of reading, speaking, listening, and writing. The goal of the course will be to focus on useful vocabulary, to practice functional grammar, to further explore cross- cultural analysis and to develop students' communicative competence in Spanish. Not open to Students from SPA 102 or 103. This course is designed for students' transition directly from high school Spanish to second-year college Spanish.

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.

Introduction to advanced Spanish grammar and syntax and development of Spanish vocabulary and writing skills. Concurrent enrollment in SPI 211 is encouraged.

Introduction to advanced Spanish grammar and syntax and development of Spanish vocabulary and writing skills. Concurrent enrollment in SPI 211 is encouraged.

Oral-aural practice in the spoken language. Special emphasis placed on the acquisition of idioms and vocabulary.

Oral-aural practice in the spoken language. Special emphasis placed on the acquisition of idioms and vocabulary.

This course builds upon the pedagogical basis of SPA 205. It is exclusively designed for bilingual speakers and its purpose further refine reading, lexical, and grammatical skills through intensive writing practice in contexts that are meaningful to these speakers. This course will be taught entirely in Spanish. SPA 215 is the equivalent of 210 and 211 and fulfills the pre-major course requirements. Students taking 203 should refrain from taking this course.

This course aims to help students acquire skills and knowledge needed to promote understanding of individuals/groups from diverse backgrounds, without reinforcing stereotypes in the name of "cultural difference." Toward this end, this course will (1) utilize, as a guide/lead, the concept of "contact zones," zones of exchange that divide but simultaneously connect "us" and "them"; and (2) have each student conduct a semester-long ethnographic project concerning the contact zone.