Spanish: Immersive Beginning I

This course is immersive and interdisciplinary. Students work exclusively in Spanish, and the language is always taught through the cultural context of Latin America and more specifically Yucatán. Students learn not only in the classroom but also through constant interactions with other Spanish-speaking environments, fostering cultural enrichment and connection.

This course is for students who have minimal experience with Spanish and are anticipating an immersion experience in a Spanish speaking context such as the Yucatán Program. Daily classes and assignments emphasize the development of basic comprehension and communication, both written and spoken. Students write, read texts, present on various topics, converse in pairs and groups, sing and dance, learn basic grammar, and develop their vocabulary. Outside of the daily classes, students organize and perform in the annual Spanish Festival. The grammatical structures developed in this course include but are not limited to: all parts of speech, such as articles, adjectives and adverbs in present tense; the use of reflexive verbs; past tense and all variety of sentence structures.

This course also provides an orientation to living and studying in Yucatán, Mexico. The lab time is a specific formal orientation to immersion, building on the cultural context incorporated in daily classes. Upon completing this course, students will be able to express themselves and communicate confidently in Spanish. They will be able to share opinions, knowledge, questions, emotions, wishes, and preferences as well as petitions, greetings, congratulations and thanks using simple sentence structures. Additionally, they will have developed a basic cultural understanding, allowing them to incorporate themselves into new contexts with more ease.

Evaluation is based on presentations, compositions, listening and spoken tests, written tests covering grammar, daily homework, and most importantly class participation.

Always visit the Registrar's Office for the official course catalog and schedules.