Santa Clara University

Advanced Spanish Conversation (SPAN 110)

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 in the social, economic, political and cultural reality of El Salvador.

Specific Objective: Communicative
-express desire, doubt, or necessity from which action occurs, make suggestions and formal opinions
-report information and express past attitudes
-express possibilities or conditions for which action happens, present hypothetical situations, and express suggestions
-express experiences of the past or refer to facts of the past that have relevance in the present
-present and accept excuses, like narrating completed activities in the past
-express a suspicion, probability, conjecture, or doubt in the past
-express an obligation which was not fulfilled in the past or make reference to a contrary fact to reality in the past
-express doubt, necessity, emotion, doubt or probability about advice, past or uncertain.

Grammatical:
-Use grammatical structures:
-present subjunctive
-preterit subjunctive
-simple potential
-composed potential
-preterit perfect in the indicative and subjunctive
-preterit pluperfect in the indicative
-pluperfect subjunctive

Social:
-comment about the first settlers in America
-discuss the arrival of the Spaniards and its implications
-discuss the colonial period
-discuss the significance of the independence of Central America
-discuss coffee and its implications on land ownership
-discuss the facts of the ’32
-discuss or comment on the civil war in El Salvador
-read periodicals and articles about conjectural facts in El Salvador
-differentiate Salvadoran Spanish with standard material Spanish
-first settlers in America (equipo maiz)
-first settlers in El Salvador (equipo maiz)
-guerilla civil war in El Salvador (Roque Dalton)
-poem “lo fatal” (Rubén Dario)
-facts of 1932 (Roque Dalton)
-Cuentos de barro (Salarué)
-Republic and coffee (equipo maiz)
-Central American common market (equipo maiz)
-fall of the state 1979 (equip maiz)
-National periodicals
-Songs
-Ojalá (Silvio Rodriguez)
-Casas de Cartón (los Guaraguao)
-Sombrero Azul (Los Torogoces)
-Castillos en el aire (Alberto Cortez)
-Regalo para un nino (Oswaldo Escobar Velado)

Fieldtrips:
-Anthropology Muesum “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 and 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%