Santa Clara University

Advanced Spanish I (SPAN 100)

5 upper-division quarter units

Instructor: Cruz Antonio Portal

Language of Instruction: Spanish

General Objective: Insert the students across the process of teaching- learning the Spanish language and social, economic, political and cultural reality of El Salvador.

Specific Objectives: Communicative
-express hopes, doubts and opinions
-contrast preterit imperfect with the indefinite
-express actions of coming and going
-express possibilities from which action occurs
-to give and receive commands, orders and invitations
-practice telephone courtesy and express actions that occur at the exact moment of speaking or that occur in the moment of reference
-report past information in the present
-to extend information and to request or to give directions
-talk about health problems in a similar manner to medical consultation
-express preferences and objections
-express personal opinions about different topics
-express doubts and ask for explanations

Grammatical:
-irregular verbs in the indefinite preterit
-future imperfect in the indicative (simple and composed)
-present subjunctive of irregular and regular verbs
-conditional form (simple and composed)
-imperfect subjunctive of irregular and regular verbs
-the verb “gustar”
-imperative form
-adverbs
-hacer + infinitive
-verb phrases
-transitions

Comment about the first settlers in America (Mayans, Aztecs, Incas, and settlers in El Salvador)

Discuss the impact of conquest (“Acaxual where it beats the sea of the south”, land and society)

Discuss political periods of El Salvador:
--effects of independence
--introduction of coffee
--militarism
--social movements
--peace agreements
-caudillismo

Read about conjuncture facts in El Salvador
--health
--public education
--unions
--neo-liberalism
--political parties

Differentiate Salvadoran Spanish from “Standard” Spanish

Lecture Materials:
1)First settlers in America (equipo maiz)
2)First settlers in El Salvador (equipo maiz)
3)Guerilla civil war in El Salvador (Roque Dalton)
4)Poem “lo fatal” (Rubén Dario)
5)The working class and Father José Matías Delgado (Roque Dalton)
6)Morazán and the youth (Roque Dalton)
7)Anastasio Aquino, father of the mother country (Roque Dalton)
8)The Rebuplic and coffee (equipo maiz)
9)Facts of 1932 (Roque Dalton)
10) Central American common market (equipo maiz)
11)Fall of the state 1979 (equipo maiz)
12)Peace Agreements 1992 (equipo maiz)
13) La Presna Gráfica, El Diario de Hoy, Co-latino
14)Cuentos de barro (Salarué)
15)Songs
-Ojalá (Silvio Rodriguez)
-Casas de Cartón (los Guaraguao)
-Sombrero Azul (Los Torogoces)
-Regalo para un nino (Oswaldo Escobar Velado)

Fieldtrips:
-Anthropology Museum “David J. Guzmán”
-University of El Salvador
-Park “Saburo Hirao”
-Villa of Panchimalco
-Archeological site of “San Andrés”

Grading:
All of the students should complete the following requirements in order to obtain a final grade:
-punctually attend and actively participate in class: 30%
-complete daily assignments on the day and time specified: 30%
-present a written essay at the end of the cycle: 40%