Course Description: Designed for students interested in developing a functional use of Spanish for the professions (business, education, law, medicine, social work, etc.), from a Hispanic cultural perspective. Students will have an opportunity to practice and develop their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. The Spanish-speaking world will provide the cultural context, and the area of business the content area.
Course Narrative: This course was very useful in that it used a variety of media tools and presentation styles to help us learn certain sets of vocabulary depending on the chapter. We tackled different topics like job searching, court rooms, education, medical terminology and politics and learned specific topics and vocabulary for each section. Every chapter focused on a country within the Spanish speaking world and informed us on the dialects and way of living while implementing a topic like job searching. We learned the geography of a majority of Latin America and many times dove into the government systems and how they went about particular issues like education. The section I remember most about this course was courtroom matters and the responsibilities of a court translator. I learned many new phases and words that I had never even learned in English. Besides this, I like how the class featured many YouTube videos related to the evolution of the Spanish language and the changes within dialects and where they come from. One of the videos described the change from the letter "f" to "h" in many Spanish words. We finished off the course by presenting a Latin American country in a Pecha Kucha styled many and this allowed us to survey the geography, history, economy and cultures of many different countries. My country was Argentina and I have added the link to it here.
This course met MLO1 & MLO2
Course Narrative: This course was very useful in that it used a variety of media tools and presentation styles to help us learn certain sets of vocabulary depending on the chapter. We tackled different topics like job searching, court rooms, education, medical terminology and politics and learned specific topics and vocabulary for each section. Every chapter focused on a country within the Spanish speaking world and informed us on the dialects and way of living while implementing a topic like job searching. We learned the geography of a majority of Latin America and many times dove into the government systems and how they went about particular issues like education. The section I remember most about this course was courtroom matters and the responsibilities of a court translator. I learned many new phases and words that I had never even learned in English. Besides this, I like how the class featured many YouTube videos related to the evolution of the Spanish language and the changes within dialects and where they come from. One of the videos described the change from the letter "f" to "h" in many Spanish words. We finished off the course by presenting a Latin American country in a Pecha Kucha styled many and this allowed us to survey the geography, history, economy and cultures of many different countries. My country was Argentina and I have added the link to it here.
This course met MLO1 & MLO2