Spanish (SPA) at Northern Virginia Community College
Distance Learning
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- SPA 101 - Beginning Spanish I
- Introduces cultural awareness, listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills, and emphasizes basic sentence structure. Part I of II. This is a UCGS transfer course.Lecture 4 hours. Total 4 hours per week.
4 credits - SPA 102 - Beginning Spanish II
- Introduces cultural awareness, listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills and emphasizes basic sentence structure. Part II of II. This is a UCGS transfer course.Lecture 4 hours. Total 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite: SPA 101, or two years of successful completion of high school Spanish, or demonstrated experiential learning, or by placement test, or equivalent.4 credits - SPA 103 - Basic Spoken Spanish I
- Teaches oral communication and introduces cultural mores and customs to students with no prior instruction in the language. Part I of II.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - SPA 104 - Basic Spoken Spanish II
- Teaches oral communication and introduces cultural mores and customs to students with no prior instruction in the language. Part II of II.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - SPA 111 - Conversation in Spanish I
- Emphasizes the spoken language, stressing fluency and correctness of structure, pronunciation, and vocabulary. Part I of II.Lecture 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: SPA 102.3 credits - SPA 112 - Conversation in Spanish II
- Emphasizes the spoken language, stressing fluency and correctness of structure, pronunciation, and vocabulary. Part II of II.Lecture 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: SPA 102.3 credits - SPA 115 - Intensive Beginning Spanish
- Develops understanding, speaking, reading, and writing skills through the Beginning level of Spanish. Covers the material in SPA 101 and 102 in an accelerated one-semester format. Strengthens, reviews and refines the concepts of SPA 101 and SPA 102 for students who have had previous Spanish language instruction or exposure but who are not ready for SPA 201 Intermediate Spanish. May include one additional hour of oral practice per week.Lecture 4-5 hours. Total 4-5 hours per week.
Prerequisite: High School Spanish4-5 credits - SPA 150 - Spanish for Law Enforcement
- Introduces Spanish to those in the criminal justice field. Emphasizes oral communication and practical first-hand police and justice vocabulary. May include oral drill and practice.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - SPA 163 - Spanish for Health Professionals I
- Introduces Spanish to those in the health sciences. Emphasizes oral communication and practical medical vocabulary. May include oral drill and practice. Part I of II.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - SPA 164 - Spanish for Health Professionals II
- Introduces Spanish to those in the health sciences. Emphasizes oral communication and practical medical vocabulary. May include oral drill and practice. Part II of II.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - SPA 193 - Studies In
- Covers new content not covered in existing courses in the discipline. Allows instructor to explore content and instructional methods to assess the course's viability as a permanent offering.Variable hours per week.
1-5 credits - SPA 198 - Seminar and Project
- Requires completion of a project or research report related to the student's occupational objectives and a study of approaches to the selection and pursuit of career opportunities in the field.May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits - SPA 199 - Supervised Study
- Assigns problems for independent study incorporating previous instruction and supervised by the instructor.May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits - SPA 201 - Intermediate Spanish
- Continues to develop cultural awareness, listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills, and introduces complex sentence structures. Classes may be conducted in target language. Part I of II. This is a UCGS transfer course.Lecture 3 hours. Total 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: SPA 102, or three years of successful completion of high school Spanish, or demonstrated experiential learning, or by placement test, or equivalent.3 credits - SPA 202 - Intermediate Spanish II
- Continues to develop cultural awareness, listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills, and emphasizes complex sentence structures. Classes may be conducted in the target language. Part II of II. This is a UCGS transfer course.Lecture 3 hours. Total 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: SPA 201, or four years of successful completion of high school Spanish, or demonstrated experiential learning, or by placement test, or equivalent.3 credits - SPA 205 - Spanish for Heritage Speakers
- Fosters appreciation of Hispanic cultural-linguistic heritage. Develops understanding, speaking, reading, and writing skills to native or near-native level. Focuses on reading development, orthography, lexical expansion, formal grammar, facility in writing and composition, and an introduction to selected representations of literary texts. Part I of II.Lecture 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: Native or near-native fluency in listening and speaking and little or no formal education in Spanish, and permission and placement by instructor/counselor/ADC.3 credits - SPA 206 - Spanish for Heritage Speakers
- Fosters appreciation of Hispanic cultural-linguistic heritage. Develops understanding, speaking, reading, and writing skills to native or near-native level. Focuses on reading development, orthography, lexical expansion, formal grammar, facility in writing and composition, and an introduction to selected representations of literary texts. Part II of II.Lecture 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: Native or near-native fluency in listening and speaking and little or no formal education in Spanish, and permission and placement by instructor/counselor/ADC.3 credits - SPA 211 - Intermediate Spanish Conversation I-II
- Continues to develop fluency through emphasis on idioms and other complex sentence structures. Part I of II.Lecture 3-4 hours per week.
Prerequisite: SPA 202 or equivalent.3-4 credits - SPA 212 - Intermediate Spanish Conversation I-II
- Continues to develop fluency through emphasis on idioms and other complex sentence structures. Part II of II.Lecture 3-4 hours per week.
Prerequisite: SPA 202 or equivalent.3-4 credits - SPA 233 - Introduction to Spanish Civilization & Literature I-II
- Introduces the student to Spanish culture and literature. Readings and discussions conducted in Spanish. Part I of II.Lecture 3-4 hours per week.
Prerequisite: SPA 202 or equivalent.3-4 credits - SPA 298 - Seminar and Project
- Requires completion of a project or research report related to the student's occupational objectives and a study of approaches to the selection and pursuit of career opportunities in the field.May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits - SPA 299 - Supervised Study
- Assigns problems for independent study incorporating previous instruction and supervised by the instructor.May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
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