SPAN& 123: Spanish III

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Class Program

Spanish

Credits

Weekly Contact Hours

Course ID

091381

Meets Degree Requirements For

Humanities

Description

Continuation of Spanish II. Elementary grammar, writing and comprehension of the Spanish language. Instruction mostly in Spanish. Background in English grammatical terminology is recommended.

Grading Basis

Graded

Prerequisites

SPAN& 122 or equivalent

Course Learning Outcomes

Read, write, listen, and speak in simple, compound and complex Spanish sentences using all tenses of the subjunctive mood, the present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect indicative, and the present and perfect conditional.

Communicate in situations involving the expression of uncertainty and indefinite and nonexistent things and actions, medical situations, sports, emotions and celebrations.

Correctly express all types of conditions and correctly observe the sequence of tenses.

Extract contextual information from both readings and video presentations and respond in Spanish to Spanish situational questions within the grammatical limits of the material.

Core Topics

Present perfect tense. Perfect participles. Tú commands. Future tense.
Uses of present subjunctive. Por vs. para. Relative pronouns.
Possessive pronouns. Stressed possessive adjectives.
The conditional. Reciprocal reflexives. The subjunctive in temporal subordinate clauses.
The past perfect tense. Infinitives as subjects and objects.
The imperfect subjunctive. Real and unreal conditions. Reflexives expressing unplanned occurrences.