Course Detail

SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish I

SPAN 201 IS Sec 3, Semester, University of Mississippi
[See UM Catalog for Description]

3 credit hours

Instructor Information:

Instructor name:
Julia Bussade

Julia Emilia Bussade was born in Itaperuna, in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She holds a Ph.D. in Education with emphasis in TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) from the University of Mississippi. She received a Bachelor’s in Liberal Arts from the Philosophy College of Itaperuna. She received a Master’s of English degree from the Catholic University of Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte, the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. While she was finishing her degree, she also attended law school for three years at the State Law School University of Campos (UNIFLU), in the State of Rio de Janeiro. She also worked full-time as a bilingual Human Resources generalist at a Nabisco powdered milk plant in her hometown, where she was in charge, among other duties, of training, translations, and the exchange programs for employees’ children.

Dr. Bussade became interested in the program offered by AFS (American Family Services), and she arrived in Buffalo, NY for a six-month teacher’s exchange program. Later, for personal reasons, she had the chance to return to the United States. She arrived in Oxford, MS, where she has been ever since. In 1996, she was hired by the University of Mississippi as an instructor of Portuguese and Spanish. In 1999, she finished her MBA with emphasis in Marketing from the University of Southern Mississippi. She is an active member of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society. In 2007, she was invited to be the director of Portuguese and Spanish, her current job title at the University of Mississippi. Since her early childhood when she used to teach her dolls, Julia knew she wanted to be a teacher.

Contact Information:

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Course Description

Welcome to Spanish 201, Intermediate Spanish 1! This course is designed to continue your instruction in the language and culture of the Spanish-speaking world. Our main goal for you is to have you learn to communicate effectively in Spanish and develop knowledge and an appreciation for Hispanic cultures. In this course, you will continue to develop your Spanish communicative skills through extensive practice in reading, writing, speaking and listening. By the end of this class, you should be able to complete communicative tasks in Spanish using the communication strategies, grammar structures and vocabulary acquired during the semester, and understand and be able to talk about the diversity of the Spanish-speaking world.

This 4-unit Independent Study course will help you learn to communicate effectively in spoken and written Spanish through a variety of guided and open-ended activities, integrating cultural information delivered by Connect, an interactive online learning system. There will be machine-graded and instructor graded activities. You will have three (3) attempts to complete each activity. 

Textbook Information:

Textbook information will be provided upon enrollment in your iStudy course.

Course Objectives:

The goals of this course are based on the Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century. These standards, often referred to as the 5 Cs, emphasize the following areas:

• Communication in Spanish
• Learning about different cultures in the Spanish speaking world
• Using language to make connections to other disciplines
• Comparing and contrasting languages and cultures to develop a deeper understanding about language
• Using the larger community as a way to experience and acquire knowledge about language

This course is the third in the sequence of courses in our Introductory Spanish Program; the first in the Intermediate level. Upon successfully completing this course, the next level in the sequence would be Span 202.

Course Outline:

This course consists of 5 instructional modules (or lessons) and 3 proctored exams.

Grading:

Scale:
90 - 100% = A
80 - 89% = B
70 - 79% = C
60 - 69% = D
Below 59% = F

GRADING INFORMATION:
The grading format is as follows:
MySpanishLab activities: 30%
Unit Exam 1: 20%
Unit Exam 2: 20%
Final Exam: 30%

FAILURE TO TAKE THE FINAL EXAM WILL RESULT IN FAILURE OF THE COURSE.

You must submit the lessons required to take the course exam(s). Lessons required but not submitted will receive a grade of zero. For the final exam, all coursework must be submitted and graded.