SPAN 301 - Spanish Composition

Credits: 5
Variable Credit Course: No

Lecture Hours: 55
Lab Hours: 0
Worksite/Clinical Hours: 0
Other Hours (LIA/Internships): 0

Course Description: Study of fundamental writing skills and varied writing strategies leading to the planning, organizing, writing, and revising of academic essays in Spanish.

Prerequisite: Department Chair permission and ability to speak Spanish.
Meets FQE Requirement: No
Integrative Experience Requirement: No

Student Learning Outcomes

Analyze challenging and/or conflicting ideas from diverse Spanish language texts.
Synthesize multiple sources to support an answer, claim, or thesis.
Formulate responses to Spanish works in the service of developing the student’s own view.
Implement a personalized writing process that includes a conscious use of prewriting, planning, writing, and rewriting.
Demonstrate effective use of Spanish language sources as evidence by supporting complex claims and sub-claims in essays and written assignments.
Produce writing in Spanish that is fluid and free of spelling and syntax errors and communicates ideas clearly.

Course Contents

Challenging/conflicting ideas from diverse Spanish langauge texts.
Sources to support an answer, claim, or thesis.
Developing the student’s own view.
Personalized writing process that includes a conscious use of prewriting, planning, writing, and rewriting.
Effective use of Spanish langauge sources as evidence by supporting complex claims and sub-claims in essays and written assignments.
Writing in Spanish that is fluid and free of spelling and syntax errors and communicates ideas clearly.

Instructional Units: 5