SPAN 111 is the first of a four-course sequence designed to meet the foreign language requirement for those transferring to a college with such a requirement. This course helps students acquire beginning communication skills within a culturally significant contact. Upon completion of this course, students are expected to:

1. Be able to write basic Spanish in the present indicative and preterite tenses incorporating vocabulary and other grammatical points learned over the semester.
2. Be able to communicate orally using basic Spanish to ask and answer questions on a variety of everyday topics, describe people and places and narrate recurring (present) events.
3. Be able to understand some Spanish spoken slower than normal pace and develop skills and coping strategies for filling in the gaps.
4. Gain cultural knowledge and awareness about the areas of the work in which Spanish is spoken.

• College-level skills in reading, writing and oral communication

• Have problem solving and critical thinking skills

• Understand the importance of cultural traditions and diversity in the modern world