TECHNICAL SKILLS AND EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS: 

¡BIENVENIDO A LA CLASE DE ESPAÑOL!

PRE-REQUISITE:  SPANISH 1311 OR 1411

This course is the continuation of Spanish 1311 and completes a first year study of the language. Upon completion of 1312 your oral production will consist of basic commnicative exchanges.  You will be able to ask question and make statements showing some signs of familiarity with the language. By the end of the course you will have acquired basic conversation skills in Spanish. Your reading abilitly will allow you to interpret written material in areas of practical need, for instructional and directional purposes.  Finally you will be able to write as well as express ideas accurately.

COURSE REGULATIONS:

ATTENDANCE POLICY:

Students are responsible for their own class attendance and participation. Faculty members may establish requirements for student participation in specific learning activities both in and out of the classroom and may consider these requirements when determining final grades. 

CLASSROOM CONDUCT

TSTC expects all students to engage in scholastic pursuits in a manner that is beyond reproach. Students are expected to maintain complete honesty and integrity. Any student found guilty of scholastic dishonesty is subject to disciplinary action. Scholastic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, cheating on academic work, plagiarism, and collusion.

Cheating on academic work includes, bit is not limited to:

Copying from, another student’s test paper or other academic work, using materials during a test that have not been authorized by the individual giving the test, collaborating with another student, without authorization, during an examination or in preparing academic work; bribing another person to obtain an unadministered test, knowingly using, buying, selling, stealing, transporting, or soliciting, in whole or in part, the contents of an un-administered test; and substituting for another student, or permitting another student to substitute for oneself, to take a test or prepare other academic work.

Plagiarism means claiming another’s work as one’s own without acknowledging its origin and doing so for credit.

Collusion means unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing a written work offered for credit.

All students are expected to help to maintain a classroom environment that is conducive to learning. To ensure that all students have the opportunity to gain from time spent in class, students are prohibited from engaging in any form of disruptive behavior (cellular phones, eating or drinking in the classroom, arriving late to class, leaving the lecture early, making offensive remarks, missing deadlines, prolonged chattering, reading newspapers or doing other work in class, sleeping, taking out of turn, shuffling notebooks, overt inattentiveness, ect.) inappropriate behavior in the classroom may result, minimally, in a request to leave class.

PARTICIPATION

Students must do more than simply attend class.  They must actively participate in the learning process.  Keep in mind that to learn a language is to communicate and to interact with others.  Students are expected to be present at all class meetings and come prepared by reading the textbook material.  If you are late or you leave early from class, points will be deducted on your participation grade.  Exceptions must be approved by the instructor at the beginning of the semester.  If you are an athlete or participate in any school sponsored activity, please inform the instructor. 

EXAMINATIONS:

Spanish 1312 covers Chapter 7 till Chapter 12. Vocabulary or grammar quizzes will be given through every chapter. In this class there will be a total of three exams, two written exams, and an oral presentation exam. The exams will be equally weighted.

If you cannot take an exam as scheduled, you must make other arrangements in advance. The instructor must be contacted promptly in person and must be convinced that the absence was absolutely unavoidable. (Only cases of an extreme or catastrophic nature are excused and must be corroborated in writing by an appropriate authority: doctor, judge, hospital, etc.)

NOTE: All make up exams will have - 10 taken off of the total score. (i.e. if you score 80pts. and it’s a make up then the final will be 70 pts.) There are no make-up exams! Students absent during exams, including the final or any other graded assignment, will receive a grade of F (=0). 

QUIZZES

NO MAKE UP QUIZZES !

WRITTEN WORK:

Written work should always be done in Spanish and in complete sentences, unless otherwise instructed by professor. It must include a heading name, date, course and section number in the top right corner. Textbook exercises must also include the title of the exercise and the page number. All written activities must be done in ink or typed, as instructed. Mistakes should be corrected with correction fluid and work must be neat and clean. Messy work will not be graded.

COMPUTER LABORATORY

Lab activities allow you to practice your speaking, listening, reading, and/or writing skills through interaction with Vistas Supersite and its media resourses.  For lab assignments, students will be allowed up to two attempts, depending on the type of excercise.  Your final score for an assignment will be based on your last score attempt.  Failure to complete Vistas Supersite activities will affect your final score negatively.

Students need to have their TSTC. identification card to word at the lab.

HOMEWORK

All students are required to keep his/her binder for all class handouts given.  The class handouts must be completed either in the class with the instructor or at home as part of the homework grade.  Also, vocabulary from every chapter must be copied (hand-written) twice each word in Spanish and turned in for a homework grade at the beginning of each class.  NO LATE HOMEWORK WILL BE ACCEPTED: GRADE WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY A ZERO (0).

GENERAL POLICIES

Students may not bring beepers, cell phones, or pagers, into the classroom.  The student will be expected to turn off his pager, telephone, etc. so as not to disturb the class.

IMPORTANT DATES

COURSE OUTLINE

Subject to amendment by professor at any time during the semester.

Exam Dates

FIRST EXAM:

7th week - October 14, 2009

SECOND EXAM

15th week - December 4, 2009

ORAL EXAM

Make an outline of your essay (free topic) and develop it in an oral presentation.  Power Point will be easier for you.  You will find all the instructions in My Learning.

NOTE: 

The instructor reserves the right to delete, change, or otherwise modify this course description.