Spanish 0200 - Elementary Spanish II

Course Description
Spanish 0200 is a second-semester language course designed for students who have some prior experience in Spanish. As in other Spanish courses, Spanish 0200 emphasizes the development of foundational listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills while exploring the rich cultural mosaic of the Spanish-speaking world. Through listening activities and videotaped interviews with native speakers, your aural and oral abilities will improve at the same time that you will become familiarized with different varieties of standard spoken Spanish. You will be given ample opportunities to practice orally and in writing so that you can reinforce newly acquired vocabulary and linguistic structures. Reading strategies will facilitate your comprehension of the texts included in the course syllabus. Readings focused on a specific country or region, visual items (such as maps, photos, films) and a class project will advance your knowledge of Hispanic cultural practices and products while increasing your intercultural competence. 

Conducted entirely in Spanish, this class will provide you with guided practice before moving to more independent and spontaneous language production. You will participate in paired, small-group and whole-class activities that simulate real-life situations that will help you gain confidence communicating in Spanish.

Goals 
By the end of this course students can handle a variety of day-to-day situations in a Spanish-speaking setting such as:

• Introduce themselves, use greetings, describe people, places and things, give instructions, tell time, go shopping, order meals in a restaurant, and make travel plans
• Talk about themselves, families and friends regarding academic life, daily routines, health, work, leisure, and preferences (using the present and past tenses)
• Use the cultural information learned in class as an icebreaker to find common ground with Spanish-speaking people around the globe

Prerequisites 

• the successful completion of SPAN 0100 or SPAN 0105 at Penn, or
• a score on the SAT II exam between 380-440, or
• a score on the online placement exam between 285-383 (this does not apply to Wharton students), or
• a score on the paper-and-pencil departmental exam between 380-440 (for Wharton students; for transfer students seeking transfer credit for previous courses), or
• moving up a level from a score below 380 on the SAT II exam, or
• moving up a level from a score below 285 on the online placement exam (this does not apply to Wharton students), or
• moving up a level from a score below 380 on the paper-and-pencil departmental exam (for Wharton students; for transfer students seeking transfer credit for previous courses), or
• permission from the Director of the Spanish Language Program