World Languages

French I

Credit: 1 Credit (full year course)

Course Description: This course is for students who have never taken French and want to experience the language and culture. Students will learn to communicate their basic needs in situations such as greetings and introductions, food meals and eating in a restaurant, as well as shopping, sports, and leisure time. This course requires class participation, speaking projects, art projects and homework assignments. Quizzes, tests, and a final examination will be given.

French II

Credit: 1 Credit (full year course)

Course Description: This course stresses listening and speaking skills including grammar and structure. Students learn basic writing tasks such as messages, notes, and short conversations. Major topics covered include personal information, house/home leisure time, shopping, earning, and living, health and welfare, meal order taking, community and neighborhood. Required are two oral projects (skit, biography) and two major assignments (letter and essay). Students will develop cross-cultural skills and understanding.

French III

Credit: 1 Credit (full year course)

Course Description: This is an intensive course focusing on the students’ ability to understand and communicate in written and oral language. Students will strengthen their conversational skills by learning how to communicate in typical daily-life situations. Major topics covered are the daily routine, school, work, and domestic life chores in the home, in the city, restaurant, getting directions, leisure time and travel. Students must attend class daily on time and will be required to write letters, essays and read selections from books and magazines for meaning. They will also view films in French and demonstrate comprehension by discussing them in essays and short answer exams in French and English.

Spanish I

Credit: 1 Credit (full year course)

Course Description: This course focuses on teaching students how to communicate in Spanish. The students will learn to use basic Spanish vocabulary and grammar, tell the time of day, describe themselves and their family members how to get help in an emergency, to order a meal in a Spanish restaurant and to conjugate verbs in the present tense. Students are required to do homework daily, participate in class, study for exams, and write dialogues and complete special projects. Students are introduced to the present and past tense of verbs.

Spanish II

Credit: 1 Credit (full year course)

Course Description: Students will develop listening and conversational skills through simple messages and short conversations. They will practice their oral skills by learning how to communicate in typical daily-life situations and be able to read and comprehend material when the topic and language are familiar. Major topics covered: socialization, providing and obtaining information, deriving meaning from context, persuasion, and use of reception, and rephrasing to communicate meaning. Students will be required to write short stories, compositions, and read selections from textbooks, newspapers, and magazines. They will attend classes every day on time, do homework on a daily, participate in class, study from exams and quizzes, complete special projects, listen, speak, and write Spanish. They will also review the present tense form and will be introduced to the past tense forms of common regular and irregular verbs.

Spanish III

Credit: 1 Credit (full year course)

Course Description: In this course, the students will strengthen their conversational skills by learning how to communicate in typical daily-life situations. They will be able to read passages and answer questions, read Spanish short stories and react to them. Students will write brief compositions in which they describe their own experiences, create their own stories from given pictures and write friendly, business, and personal letters. Major topics covered: Spanish literature and plays, daily work/school routine, domestic life, cross cultural skills and understanding weekend leisure time and travel. Students will be required to write letters and essays, read selections from books and magazines for meaning, attend class on time daily, read and view films and plays in Spanish and demonstrate comprehension by examinations in Spanish and English.

Spanish IV

Credit: 1 Credit (full year course)

Course Description: This course focuses on the student’s ability to comprehend formal and informal spoken Spanish. Students will be able to read and discuss Spanish short stories, poems, and plays. They will also be able to perform at a prominent level of proficiency in the four basic language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Major topics covered are Spanish literature, customs, traditions, art, music, grammar, and history. Students are required to come to class prepared and on time, do homework daily, write essays, short stories, and poems. This course is conducted exclusively in Spanish.