Course Syllabus—Spring 2007
Instructor: Adriana Bulacio
Number of credits: 4
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Prerequisites:
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Linkage of course to educational program
mission and outcomes: Spanish 112 is the second of a four-course
sequence designed to meet the foreign language requirement for those
transferring to a college with such a requirement. I t counts as an elective
for any of the Associates degrees offered at WNCC, especially the A.A. and
the A.G.S. |
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General
Education Program Outcomes Linkage (see p. 4 of the 2005-2006 Academic Program Guide):
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Instructor
Contact Information:
Phone: 775-287-1440
E-mail: bulacios@wncc.edu
Teaching
Assistant for Communications and Fine Arts: Catherine “Cat” Boedenauer
Phone: 775-445-4447
E-mail: boedenau@wncc.edu
Required Texts: 1. Zayas-Bazán,
Bacon, ¡Arriba! (4th edition)
If
you’re buying the text new, it should come with the
If you’re buying a used text, please note that you must
also
buy the
If
you’re buying the package new (ISBN 013226921X), the package consists of:
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¡Arriba!
Communicación y cultura (4th edition)
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OneKey 2.0
with Quia WebCT, Student
Access Kit for
¡Arriba!
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The
If you’re buying the text used, you
will still need to purchase OneKey 2.0 with
Quiz WebCT,
Student Access Kit for ¡Arriba!. Its ISBN is 013195054-1
The ISBN for the text, access code and a
Spanish-English dictionary is
The ISBN for the access
code alone is
For those of you continuing from last semester, you need not purchase a
new access code. The publisher will send it to us and we will give it to you.
COURSE INFORMATION
This course is taught over the Internet. Class begins January 22, 2007 and ends May 18, 2007.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
From
WNCC catalog: Develops language skills
through practice in listening, speaking, reading, writing and structural
analysis. Includes an introduction to Spanish culture.
COURSE
OBJECTIVES
Spanish 112 (W01/W02), the second
semester of first year Spanish, is designed to help students continue to
acquire beginning communication skills within a culturally significant context.
Emphasis is given primarily to reading and writing skills; however, oral/aural
skills are integrated through the use of audio and video components. Upon completion of this course, students
are expected to:
A. Be able to write basic Spanish in the
present, preterit and imperfect tenses
incorporating
vocabulary and other grammatical points learned over the semester.
B. Be able to understand
some Spanish spoken slower than normal pace and develop
skills and
coping strategies for filling in the gaps.
C. Gain cultural
knowledge and awareness about the areas of the world in which
Spanish is spoken.
POLICIES
GRADING and TESTING
Your grade for the course will be determined in the following
manner:
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1 midterm exam |
25% |
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1 final exam |
25% |
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1 composition |
10% |
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Horizon Live Classroom |
20% |
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Assignments/Participation/Effort |
20% |
Grading Scale
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90-100 |
A |
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80-89 |
B |
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70-79 |
C |
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60-69 |
D |
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<60 |
F |
Note: The grade of F will be assigned only if a student has failed to officially withdraw from the course and is failing the class. A student may withdraw from the class at any time during the semester. The last date to officially withdraw from the course is Friday, May 11, 2007. If a student fails to officially withdraw from the class and has a passing grade at the time, the student will receive a W (withdrawal).
Midterm/Final Exam
Both the midterm and final exams will be
held on-site at the
Composition
Topics and directions are posted under the Weekly Work link,
Week 15.
The composition shall be three pages in length (typed,
double-spaced). Late compositions shall not be accepted.
Chats (Horizon Live Classroom)
There will be 2 hours a week of chat offered
and you must participate in 1 hour a week. If you miss a week, feel free to
"double up" on other chats. You need not make a commitment to one
text chat time in particular. Simply make whichever chat most suits your
schedule. Proposed chats are on my schedule
on WebCT. Please let me know as soon as possible (by
January 25, 2007) if no chat works for you and let me know what other good
blocks of time work for your schedule. Chats will begin the week of February 5, 2007. Be sure to run the Setup Wizard for Horizon
Live Classroom before attempting to attend a session. To do so, just click on the Live Classroom
link on the home page.
Assignments/Participation/Effort
All assignments are due Friday, 5 p.m. You are to follow
the schedule (Weekly Work) and submit all work accordingly. I shall check that
you completed the work from the workbook and lab manual, but I shall not
consider the scores. It becomes suspect if a student consistently gets high
scores on work done over the internet and then fails the midterm and final
exams on-site. It is to your advantage to be honest, therefore study and when
you feel ready, close all books and notes and do the workbook and lab manual
and any other assignments without any crutches. Please note that the text has no
answer key. For that reason, a few weeks into the semester, you will note that
the Weekly Work includes text activities that you can send as attachments to me
via WebCT e-mail. I will correct them, but not grade
them, and send them back to you.
The
¡Arriba! package has great features, so please
take advantage of them.
Oral
work is an integral part of this language program. Each chapter has
corresponding audio work/activities to listen to and to do that accompany both
the text and the workbook and lab manual. Your work with the audio portion of
the series will help to tune your ear to the language as well as help you with
your pronunciation.
Above all,
maintain communication with me and your classmates. If two weeks go by and you
fail to communicate with me by even the simplest e-mail, I shall drop your name
from my roster and issue a withdrawal (providing you were passing the course at
the time) or an F (if you were not passing the course).
ACADEMIC
DISHONESTY
Acts of academic dishonesty,
including but not limited to cheating, plagiarism, falsifying research data or
results, or assisting others to do the same will not be tolerated and will
result in an F grade. Policies regarding student conduct can be found in the
college’s catalog. If
I have any doubt that a student is cheating in any way, I reserve the right to
require supplementary examinations that are either proctored or given on-site.
COMMUNICATION
WITH INSTRUCTOR
All students are highly encouraged to contact me through
Other important things about this class!
This is not a self-paced class! While we do not meet in a classroom for 4 hours a week, the class follows a schedule just like a traditional on-site class. Expect to spend at least as much time in an on-line class as you would in an on-site class. Spanish 112 students usually spend 8-10 hours a week outside of class time working on homework assignments. In order to succeed in this course, you should:
ü be a self-motivated and independent learner
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have
reliable access to the internet and be comfortable with a web browser and
e-mail
ü
have
basic word processing skills…this includes being able to access the Spanish accent marks by the end of the
first week of the semester
ü have good time management skills
ü have a desire to succeed in your learning experience
ü be excited about technology
¡Muy buena suerte!
Revised 1-16-07