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SPAN  1101 - Elementary Spanish
Version: W


Fact Sheet

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Course Format
Available on paper
This Course is available only through the postal system.

Course Delivery
This course is completed by Independent and Distance Learning. Students work at their own pace by submitting a series of assignments and taking one or more examinations.

Course Credit
4 hours. (Credit for this course is awarded from LSU - Baton Rouge.)

Enrollment
Open enrollment. Students may enroll at any time. The enrollment period is nine months. However, courses can be completed in much less time. The length of time depends on the pace of the student and the number of lesson assignments in the course.

Course Description
Spanish 1101, Elementary Spanish. Basic lexicon and structures of Spanish; emphasis on communicative language use. version W, 4 hours of college credit (freshman level)

Course Version:   W
The information in this factsheet is correct for the version of this course indicated above. Our courses are periodically reviewed and updated, so a new version of a course may be published at any time. When you enroll, you are assigned to the currently open version of this course. The version letter identifies all of the required elements for your course enrollment: textbooks, assignments, exams, and grading policies. On your course materials, the version letter is printed below the course number on the first page of the course guide. It is the last letter in the course code for online courses. To find textbook or other information about a previous version of this course, you will need to contact the IDL office.

Prerequisite(s)
Credit will not be given for both this course and SPAN 1150.

Course Instructor
Nelson Martinez
Peggy McNeil


Course Content
  • Greetings and farewells
  • pronunciation
  • useful expressions
  • the alphabet
  • cardinal numbers
  • colors
  • days of the week
  • months
  • seasons
  • subject pronouns
  • present indicative of “ser”
  • classroom expressions and vocabulary
  • useful questions and answers
  • polite expressions
  • gender and number
  • definite and indefinite articles
  • telling time
  • present indicative of regular -ar verbs
  • negative and interrogative sentences
  • possession with de
  • telephone calls
  • possessive adjectives
  • descriptive adjectives
  • present indicative of regular -er and -ir verbs
  • forms of the verbs “tener,” “venir,” and “tener que”
  • the personal “a”
  • planning weekend activities and expressing needs and preferences
  • pronouns with prepositions
  • contractions
  • Hispanic holiday traditions
  • present indicative of irregular verbs “ir,” “dar,” “estar,” and “ir a” + infinitive
  • expressions with “tener”
  • present indicative of e:ie stem-changing verbs
  • vocabulary related to restaurants and food
  • pronunciation
  • comparative forms
  • present indicative of o:ue stem-changing verbs
  • present progressive
  • uses of “ser” and “estar”
  • weather
  • family and household vocabulary
  • demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
  • present indicative of e:i stem-changing verbs
  • affirmative and negative expressions
  • verbs with irregular yo forms
  • “saber” vs. “conocer”
  • direct object pronouns
  • travel experiences
  • indirect object pronouns
  • constructions with “gustar”
  • time expressions with “hace”
  • preterit of regular verbs
  • ordinal numbers
  • vocabulary related to banking, running errands, etc
  • direct and indirect object pronouns used together
  • preterit of “ser,” “ir,” and “dar”
  • preterit of e:i and o:u stem-changing verbs
  • uses of “por” and “para”
  • formation of adverbs

Textbook(s)
Ana C. Jarvis and Raquel Lebredo. Workbook/Laboratory Manual ¿Cómo se dice . . . ? 8th edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005. ISBN: 0-618-47146-4 ISBN-13: 978-0-618471-46-1


Ana C. Jarvis, Raquel Lebredo, and Francisco Mena-Ayllon. ¿Cómo se dice . . . ? 8th edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005. ISBN: 0-618-47907-4 ISBN-13: 978-0-618479-07-8
DVD to accompany ¿Cómo se dice . . . ? 0-618-47153-7 (Student Video and Multimedia CD-ROM set), Lab Audio CD Program 0-618-47151-0. All components are required!

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Additional Supplies
Students must have access to a CD player. Students must have access to a DVD player.


Number of Lesson Assignments
21 Lesson Assignments

Lesson Assignment Requirements
No more than three (3) lessons may be submitted in a seven day period. There are NO exceptions to this requirement. All lessons must be complete.

Format of Lesson Assignments
Five to eight exercises from the textbook

Grading Scale
A = 90-100%; B = 80-89%; C = 70-79%; D = 60-69%; F = 59 or below

Number of Exams
2 Exams

Cost of course [textbook(s) not included]
$346.00

Material covered in Exams
Mid-course exam covers lessons 1-10
final exam covers all lessons.
Exam Format(s)
Both exams consist of fill-in-the-blank, translation exercises, and short answer.
Exam Proctor
All exams must be taken with a proctor. LSU students will test in the Independent and Distance Learning Testing Office. All other Louisiana students should test at approved Louisiana testing sites. Out of state students must arrange for an approved proctor. An approved proctor, generally, is a university testing facility or administrator, military education office, or other such facility.

How the final grade is assessed
You must pass the final exam in order to pass the course. Average grade of lesson assignments = 25% of the final course grade
mid-course exam = 25% of the final course grade
final exam = 50% of the final course grade.
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