SPAN 301: Advanced Oral and Written Expression

(1 Unit)
Proficiency Expected level of proficiency: SPAN 202, appropriate score on departmental placement test or permission of instructor.
Development of communication skills in Spanish relative to grammar, syntax, appropriate registers, necessary vocabulary, non-verbal cues and culturally specific idiomatic usage. Also includes the processes of conversation development, thesis formation and strategies for argumentation operating within Hispanic cultural norms, as well as key contemporary issues of importance to the Spanish-speaking world. Conducted in Spanish. Tutorials with teaching assistants are integrated into the course. Staff.