| Learning Goals |
Learning Objectives |
| Students will... |
Students will be able to... |
| Achieve competency in oral and aural communication |
- Speak the language using well-organized and cohesive speech patterns with minimal dependence on the use of summary or mere quotations
- Pronounce the language accurately and with near-native fluency
- Appropriately use social and/or cultural references |
| Achieve competency in written communication |
- Use and control complex structures
- Have command of a rich vocabulary
- Write with minimal to no interference from other languages |
| Become familiar with the diversity of world cultures |
- Engage with the historical, socio-political context of the cultures associated with the language
- Conduct analysis with an awareness of different points of view
- Recognize different regional accents, dialects, and speech patterns |
| Learn to think critically |
- Develop a working thesis with strong supporting evidence
- Understand different literary genres and tropes, cultural phenomena, and methods of textual analysis
- Demonstrate effective research skills with appropriate documentation |
| Understand contemporary Spanish professional practices in applied settings |
- Analyze a professional situation and determine the best options and outcomes allowed by Hispanic societies
- Articulate basic knowledge of the Hispanic business and banking, health and environmental sciences, legal and law enforcement, or journalism and media systems to determine proper ethical guidelines and professional conventions
- Integrate into realistic professional settings the geographic/regional studies, vocabulary, and cultural contexts presented and practiced throughout each course |