Spanish for Bilingual, General and Special Education Students I

This is an introductory course on theory and practice of the language designed to prepare students in the Bilingual Education Programs to perform their future professional duties effectively in Spanish. The content and materials of the course will cover a variety of academic subjects as well as the language itself. Students will read, comment and write on a broad range of texts that will include major themes of the literature, music, arts, humanities and history of Latin America and Latino culture. Critical analysis of both discourse and content of class materials will prepare students to write well reasoned responses. The mechanics of reading and writing as well as the organization of student compositions will receive special attention. An effort will be made to study grammar using the students' own compositions to insure that the basics of orthography, morphology and syntax are learned.

Fall, Spring

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