tailieunhanh - COMMUNICATION IN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

This course is the first semester of the integrated skills sequence. In this course, students will deepen their understanding of Hispanic cultures and develop communicative proficiency and accuracy in the Spanish language. Students will participate in more complex language tasks through reading, writing, and conversation and will engage with relevant cultural, literary, and personal topics. | COMMUNICATION IN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE I SPN 3332-04 MWF 1:25-2:15 Fall 2003 Diffenbaugh 216 Instructor: Brenda Cappuccio, Associate Professor of Spanish and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies Office: 362 Diffenbaugh Hours: MW 12:15-1:15 + by appointment Phone: 644-2374 E-mail: bcappucc@ Course description: This course is the first semester of the integrated skills sequence. In this course, students will deepen their understanding of Hispanic cultures and develop communicative proficiency and accuracy in the Spanish language. Students will participate in more complex language tasks through reading, writing, and conversation and will engage with relevant cultural, literary, and personal topics. Prerequisite: SPN 2240 or its equivalent. Required text, workbook and audio CD: García-Serrano, de la Torre, Cash. ¡A qué sí! Second edition. Heinle & Heinle. These are available at Bill's Bookstore (Copeland) and the FSU Bookstore. You will also need access to a computer and to the World Wide Web as we will be visiting the textbook's website (http:///) as well as other websites regularly to enhance our study of Spanish and our knowledge of the Spanish-speaking world. (If you do not have access to a personal computer, the University makes computers available to students in Strozier Library. You can print from the computers in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics' laboratory if you purchase a ream of paper and take it to the lab in Diffenbaugh 126.) It is also highly recommended that students purchase a good English-Spanish dictionary for use outside the classroom. Course objectives: In this course you will expand your abilities to express yourself in Spanish as you come to know more about the Spanish-speaking world's cultures, history, and daily life. We will practice the Spanish language by examining together in class the complexity of Spanish-speaking societies so that students become familiar with the diversity that exists in .