ASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Course Outline
Course:
SPA 212, Intermediate Spanish II
Credit Hours:
3
Placement:
Fall/Spring, 8/16 week
Course Description:
This course provides a continuation of SPA 211. Emphasis is placed on the
continuing study of authentic and representative literary and cultural texts. Upon completion, students should be
able to communicate spontaneously and accurately with increasing complexity and sophistication. Upon
completion, students should be able to communicate effectively, accurately, and creatively about the past, present,
and future. This course has been approved to satisfy the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement general
education core requirement in humanities/fine arts.
Prerequisites:
SPA211
Corequisites:
none
Required Text(s)
Potowski, K, Sobral, S,&Dawson, LDicho y hecho: Beginning Spanish, 9th
Edition. Wiley &Son, Inc, 2012. ISBN# 978-0-470-88060-9
Prepared by:
Valerie Klemmmer Watts
Revision Date: _March 5, 2015
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Student Learning Outcomes
The student is expected to:
1. Respond appropriately to questions using selected vocabulary items
2. Demonstrate an increasing cultural awareness through the use of videos, realia, and cultural
segments presented in the textbook and videos
3. Follow and participate in more sophisticated conversations
4. Interpret and apply the present and past subjunctive tenses, the future, future perfect, conditional,
conditional perfect tenses in increasingly more difficult sentences
5. Read, write and interpret sentences, paragraphs and short readings in Spanish using increasingly
difficult grammatical structures and active vocabulary
General Education Core Competencies
Upon successful completion of the general education requirements, the student will show achievement in
each of the following competencies (please bold and underline Competency if relevant to this course):
1. Communication: Students will deliver purposeful messages designed to increase knowledge, foster
understanding, or promote change in an audience’s attitudes or behaviors.
2. Social/Behavioral Sciences: Students will demonstrate an understanding of social institutions and
of the diversity of human experiences within a framework of historical and cultural contexts.
3. Humanities/Fine Arts: Students will identify, assess, and formulate various perspectives of
human values and/or creative expressions.
4. Mathematics/Natural Science: Students will design, evaluate, and implement a strategy to solve a
defined discipline-specific problem.
Assessment Methods (examples)
1. Classroom participation including paired and group work
2. Homework
3. WileyPLUS activities
4. Writing assignment
5. Oral exams
6. Quizzes
7. Tests
8. Final exam
Content Outline
1. Module 1: Travel presented through the present subjunctive tense using impersonal expressions,
indefinite entities and hacer in time constructions
a. Module 1 objective 1: talk about travel and carry out simple travel transactions
b. Module 1objective 2: state recommendations, emotional reactions, and doubts through
impersonal expressions
c. Module 1 objective 3 : refer to unspecified or nonexistent persons and things
d. Module 1 objective 4 : indicate how long an action has been going on, or how long ago it
happened
2. Module 2 : The modern world presented through ‘let’s’ commands, the present subjuntive with
adverbial expressions of condition or purpose and the imperfect subjunctive tense
a. Module 2 objective 1 : talk about new technologies and media
b. Module 2 objective 2: talk about cars and driving
c. Module 2 objective 3: make suggestions
d. Module 2 objective 4: express conditions and purpose
e. Module 2 objective 5: React to past actions and events
3. Module 3: The world in the news presents using the subjunctive with time expressions, the present
perfect subjunctive tense and si clauses
a. Module 3: objective 1: talk about major issues in today's global society
b. Module 3: objective 2: talk about pending actions
c. Module 3: objective 3: talk about what might or would happen
d. Module 3: objective 4: hypothesize