Spanish 0300 - Intermediate Spanish I

Course Description 
Spanish 0300, a first-semester intermediate-level course, emphasizes students’ acquisition of new vocabulary and linguistic structures in a cultural and communicative context while building on their previous speaking, reading, listening, and writing skills. A substantial amount of the course is devoted to learning and using the past tenses. As in other Spanish courses, students will take part in a wide range of activities including video blogging, role-plays, film viewings, listening to music, and class discussions of current social and cultural topics. Unique to this course is the creation of a “cultural journal” throughout the semester in which students pursue their own interests in the Spanish-speaking world while taking advantage of some of the rich resources within Philadelphia’s own Hispanic community.

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

  • Narrate past actions, ranging from personal anecdotes to historical events
  • Give advice, recommendations, and commands to people
  • Express their feelings and doubts when reacting to what others have said
  • Talk about their future expectations and wishes
  • Demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of Hispanic cultural practices and products

Prerequisite(s)

  • the successful completion of SPAN 0120, SPAN 0200, SPAN 0205, or SPAN 0215 at Penn, or
  • a score on the SAT II exam between 450-540, or
  • a score on the online placement exam between 384-453 (this does not apply to Wharton students), or
  • a score on the paper-and-pencil departmental exam between 450-540 (for Wharton students; for transfer students seeking transfer credit for previous courses), or
  • moving up a level from a score between 380-440 on the SAT II exam, or
  • moving up a level from a score between 285-383 on the online placement exam (this does not apply to Wharton students), or
  • moving up a level from a score between 380-440 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