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High Intermed 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.

Contact Zones: Cultivating Intercultural

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.

Spanish For Business Professionals

This course prepares business and Spanish minors/majors for successful communication in the Hispanic commercial world by building up on their existing knowledge and emphasizing practical, real-life use of oral and written Spanish. This course is designed to introduce students to essential business terminology and language situations in common business contexts, reinforcing strategies for understanding, interpreting, and responding to new information.

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