Intermediate Spanish II

3 credits

Conducted in Spanish. Intermediate Spanish II is the second course in the second-year sequence with a continued emphasis on the four skills and on critical thinking. This course focuses on vocabulary building, the examination of some of the finer grammar points, and moving students towards a more complex level of comprehension and expression. Students will continue to work with short literary texts, cultural readings and audiovisual materials. Students will interact in Spanish with the instructor, classmates and native speakers. By the end of this course, students should be able to successfully discuss in Spanish topics of importance to the twenty-first century, with emphasis on the development of critical thinking skills in addition to the refinement of the four basic language skills. After successful completion of this course, the foreign language requirement will be fulfilled for schools that require a 4th-semester proficiency.