Lower-Division

SPAN1 First-Year Spanish

The first-year program is aimed at developing proficiency in Spanish. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing are addressed through classroom practice and supplemented by language laboratory work. Classes are taught entirely in Spanish and are held three days a week. (Formerly Instruction in the Spanish Language.)

Credits

5

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): Placement into Spanish 1 via the online Spanish Placement Examination.

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

SPAN1A Accelerated Beginning Spanish

The first part of a sequence (courses 1A and 1B) that covers first-year Spanish in two quarters. Taught entirely in Spanish at an accelerated pace. Aimed at developing students' proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

Credits

5

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): Placement into Spanish 1A via the online Spanish Placement Examination.

SPAN1B Accelerated Beginning Spanish

The second part of a sequence (courses 1A and 1B) that covers first-year Spanish in two quarters. Taught entirely in Spanish at an accelerated pace. Aimed at developing students' proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

Credits

5

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 1A.

SPAN2 First-Year Spanish

The first-year program is aimed at developing proficiency in Spanish. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing are addressed through classroom practice and supplemented by language laboratory work. Classes are taught entirely in Spanish and are held three days a week. (Formerly Instruction in the Spanish Language.)

Credits

5

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 1 or placement into Spanish 2 via the online Spanish Placement Examination.

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

SPAN3 First-Year Spanish

The first-year program is aimed at developing proficiency in Spanish. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing are addressed through classroom practice and supplemented by language laboratory work. Classes are taught entirely in Spanish and are held three days a week. (Formerly Instruction in the Spanish Language.)

Credits

5

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 2 or placement into Spanish 3 via the online Spanish Placement Examination.

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

SPAN4 Second-Year Spanish

Includes comprehensive grammar review, composition, readings, and discussion. Reading and audiovisual material deal with various sociopolitical and cultural issues in the Spanish-speaking world. Classes are conducted in Spanish.

Credits

5

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 1B or SPAN 3 or placement into Spanish 4 via the online Spanish Placement Examination.

General Education Code

CC

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

SPAN5 Second-Year Spanish

Includes comprehensive grammar review, composition, readings, and discussion. Reading and audiovisual material deal with various socio-political and cultural issues in the Spanish-speaking world. Classes are conducted in Spanish.

Credits

5

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 4 or placement into Spanish 5 via the online Spanish Placement Examination.

General Education Code

CC

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

SPAN5M Medical Spanish

Students learn medical vocabulary, useful expressions, suitable grammatical structures, and cultural background to be able to interact with Spanish-speaking patients and doctors. Medical Spanish fulfills language requirement for the health sciences and human biology majors.

Credits

5

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 4; or SPHS 4, or SPHS 5, or SPHS 6; or placement into Spanish 5 via the online Spanish Placement Examination. Enrollment is restricted to health sciences and human biology majors.

General Education Code

CC

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

SPAN6 Second-Year Spanish

Increases oral and written proficiency using authentic reading materials which focus on such topics as social class, ethnicity, education, religion, economic, and political developments in the Spanish-speaking world.

Credits

5

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 5 or SPAN 5M or placement into Spanish 6 via the online Spanish Placement Examination.

General Education Code

CC

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

SPAN94 Group Tutorial

Provides a means for a small group of students to study a particular topic in consultation with a faculty sponsor. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

SPAN99 Tutorial

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

SPAN99F Tutorial

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring