SLC-100 Bilingual Assessment I (0 credits)
This assessment is available to only SLC, SPAN, SPI, and GLS majors and minors.
SLC-101 Bilingual Assessment II (0 credits)
This bilingual assessment is required of all students who wish to pursue a support in Spanish/English Health Care Interpretation. Students will be assessed for their reading, writing, speaking and listening skills in both Spanish and English. Students who are not successful in their assessment but show that with further work they have the potential for success on the assessment, would be required to take SLC-403 and successfully reassess before entering the program.
Prerequisite(s): Take SLC-100
SLC-102 Bilingual Assessment III (0 credits)
This bilingual assessment is an option for SPAN students wishing to assess out of SLC 325 and is only available to students upon faculty recommendation.
Prerequisite(s): Take SLC-101
SLC-103 Beginning Spanish I (3 credits)
In this introductory course, the student begins to communicate in the Spanish language and learn about Spanish cultures. Using a learn-by-simulation approach, they organize select elementary structural functions and vocabulary patterns and integrates them in order to begin to communicate meaningfully and clearly in basic Spanish. The student develops a basic functional foundation for proficiency, learning through the systematic practice of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This course requires 8-12 hours of service learning in the community.
SLC-104 Beginning Spanish II (3 credits)
In this second introductory course, the student continues to communicate in the Spanish language and learn about Spanish cultures. Using a learn-by-simulation approach, they continue to organize elementary structural functions and vocabulary applications in order to communicate meaningfully in basic survival Spanish. Through consistent practice, the student continues to develop their basic functional foundation for proficiency, learning through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This course requires 8-12 hours of service learning in the community.
SLC-203 Intermediate Spanish I (3 credits)
This course is designed for the student with a working foundation in the structural listening and speaking components of Spanish and with the specific need to acquire specialized vocabulary and broaden communicative skills in specific interactions and work-related contexts. They begin to integrate meaningful oral and written skills, cultural understandings, and career outcomes. This course requires 8-12 hours of service learning in the community.
Prerequisite(s): SLC-104 completed or waived per SLC-100 assessment.
SLC-204 Intermediate Spanish II (3 credits)
This course is designed for the student with a working foundation in the structural components of the Spanish language and with the specific need to continue to acquire specialized vocabulary skills and broaden communicative proficiency in specific interactions and work-related contexts. They continue to integrate meaningful oral and written skills, cultural understandings, and career outcomes.
Prerequisite(s): SLC-203 or waived per SLC-100 assessment. This course requires 8-12 hours of service learning in the community.
SLC-304 Spanish Reading, Writing & Conversation (3 credits)
In this course, the students will develop their proficiency in Spanish in more demanding contexts than the 200 level classes. They will integrate multiple effective communication modes in professional contexts. They will develop autonomy in communicating in Spanish through synthesis, collaborative thinking, reflection and evaluation of self and others. The student will apply analytic thinking at increasingly complex levels. Through mini-immersion experiences and visits to the local Hispanic/Latino community, the students will use informational strategies, frameworks, and skills in Spanish. They will gather key information related to specific cultural and human values that integrate the structural, linguistic and cultural dimensions unique to Spanish. This course is designed to engage students in order to communicate effectively in real life situations. Students will learn the vocabulary and grammar necessary to conduct basic activities in Spanish-speaking countries. This course provides a solid foundation in vocabulary and overview of cultural concepts, emphasizing the development of all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This class will introduce realistic situations and specialized vocabulary needed to use with Hispanic members of the community in the course of their daily work. It will also introduce cultural frameworks for increased cultural competence in the diverse aspects of the Hispanic communities
SLC-397 Independent Study (0 credits)
Under the approval and direction of a faculty member, independent study is available to students.
SLC-400 Reflection/Spanish Immersion Experience (2 credits)
The student contracts with the instructor to fulfill one of three options or a combination thereof in order to improve her facility in communicating in a near native fashion with another people in their cultural setting. These options include participation in a Spanish language immersion or experimental program in the United States or abroad, or a period of residence in a country in which Spanish is the official language.
Prerequisite(s): Other information: Consent of instructor to enroll.
SLC-403 Advanced Grammar, Composition & Linguist (3 credits)
Students observe and demonstrate standard use of the Spanish language. They interact in Spanish using appropriate linguistic skills, and demonstrates quality and consistency in written performance, focusing on the integration of standard structural usage (including word forms and accents) and cultural idiom. For the bilingual native speaker, this course provides the opportunity to reexamine and refine patterns of usage in a variety of linguistic and cultural situations. This course requires 8-12 hrs of service learning in the community. Fulfills SLC capstone requirement.
Prerequisite(s): SLC 303 or SLC 318 or waived per SLC-100.
SLC-410 Spanish for Business & the Profession Professions (4 credits)
Students must complete this course prior to completion of the Spanish Language and Culture Minor. While the coursework in the minor prepares students to build on their knowledge of vocabulary, culturally-relevant topics, and increase their oral and written communication skills in Spanish, this Senior Seminar focusus on reflection of worldviews and preparing students to enter the professional world. The course incorporates real-life scenarios that integrate advanced-level communication and problem-solving to adapt to the professional world after graduation.
Prerequisite(s): SLC-403, INTERN 383
SLC-466 Hispanic Languages, Cultures & Civiliztn (4 credits)
A focused study of significant aspects of Hispanic civilization in Spain, Latin America and the United States. Readings, class discussions and spoken and written work are in Spanish. Topics will rotate and may include: sociolinguistics, immigration and human rights, food in literature, medicine in literature, and Afro-Hispanic music and dance.
Prerequisite(s): SLC 303 or waived per SLC-100 Placement Assessment
SLC-497 Independent Study (0 credits)
Under the approval and direction of a faculty member, independent study is available to students.