Fall
2009 Spanish
1A: Elementary Spanish (Sect. 2) (4 units) (Course Call # 81765)
Mondays,
Wednesdays, Fridays 10-10:50 (Mariposa 2030)/Thursdays 10:30-11:20 (Eureka 101)
Dr. Edward Baranowski
Office: 2039 Mariposa
Hall Phone: 916-278-6336
Office Hours: Tuesdays 3:30-5:00,
Thursdays 2-3:30, or by appointment for other times.
E-mail: ebaranowski@csus.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.csus.edu/indiv/b/baranowski/
Department of Foreign
Languages webpage: http://www.csus.edu/fl/
Course textbook
and materials
1. Dos mundos, (7th ed). Tracy D. Terrell, Magdalena Andrade, Jeanne Egasse,
Elías Miguel Muñoz. 2009.
(Dos Mundos website: http://www.mhhe.com/dosmundos7)
2.
Dictionary.
Catalog description
Beginning Spanish language with
primary emphasis on the development of audio-lingual skills. Attention will
also be given to the interrelatedness of language and civilization and culture.
Additional attention will be given to the development of reading and writing.
Students will be expected to spend several hours per week in the language
laboratory. Not recommended for students with any previous study of Spanish. 4
units.
Course Objectives
At the end of
this semester you can reasonably expect to be able to understand and
communicate in the following areas:
·
You and the
other students in the classroom setting: Names, colors, clothing, description of
people, classroom commands, classroom objects, body parts, numbers 0-100 and
age, greetings and leave-taking
·
Family and
favorite activities: Immediate
family, possession, languages and nationalities, favorite activities and sports
·
Preferences: Making plans,
classes, days of the week, preferences, weather
·
Activities: Places in a
city or university, daily activities, foods, origins
·
Daily life and
holidays:
Holidays and celebrations, daily routine, states of being and emotions
Method of
Instruction
The course is conducted entirely in
Spanish using the following elements and techniques:
·
Lecture/presentation
·
Daily oral
activities (pair/group activities)
·
Discussion
·
Assigned
readings and exercises
·
Student-teacher
interaction
·
The study of
Spanish speaking countries’ culture
·
The use of
transparencies, pictures, cards, music, videos
·
SacCT
Students are expected to check SacCT every
day for homework assignments and announcements regarding the class. IMPORTANT: Please do not use SacCT to e-mail the instructor. The electronic address to use is: ebaranowski@csus.edu
Grade Breakdown
· 4 chapter exams 55% (#1 is 10%, all others
are 15%)
· 1 final exam 20%
· Homework 10%
· Attendance and
Class Participation 15%
Scores are
rounded up or down, i.e., 82.5 will be considered an 83, but 82.25 will be an
82.
Grades are kept
in numerical form until the end of the course, at which time they are averaged
to determine the final letter grade (93-100= A, 90-92= A-, 87-89= B+, 83-86= B,
80-82= B-, 77-79= C+, 73-76= C, 70-72= C-, 67-69= D+, 64-66= D, 60-63= D-, and
below 60 =F.
Testing
There will be 4 chapter exams for this course and also
a final exam. Each exam will have the following parts: listening comprehension,
grammar, reading comprehension, culture, vocabulary and writing. Exams will be
mainly based on the material covered in class from Dos Mundos and any additional information (handouts, extra
activities, etc.) provided by the instructor in class. Each exam will include vocabulary and grammar from previous chapters that
you should be able to use.
Please note the day of the
midterms on the course calendar. The day and time of the final exam for this
class is Monday, December 14th,
from 10:15AM-12:15PM. All exams must be taken when scheduled and not at
other times—No exceptions!
Homework
Guidelines for turning in homework:
a.
Read
and understand what you are supposed to do and use a dictionary.
b.
Identify
your homework on the top right-hand corner: Name, date, chapter number, exercise and page
number. Example:
Nombre: John Doe
Fecha: 2
de octubre de 2008
Capítulo
5, ejercicio 1, página 204
c.
Your
homework should include questions and answers. Any homework that only has the answers will
not be graded (that is, I will mark it as ''Incomplete'' and you will get a
zero on that homework assignment.)
d.
I WILL NOT ACCEPT LATE HOMEWORK because I will
drop two homework assignments.
e.
I will not collect all the homework assignments, but you should
prepare all of them before class meets.
If you are not ready in class when we go over the exercises that were
assigned as homework, you will lose points in participation.
Attendance
and Class Participation
In order to get full points, you must:
·
Avoid excessive
absences and tardiness. Obviously, if you are not in class, you cannot
participate.
·
Come to class
fully prepared.
·
Volunteer to
participate in all activities.
·
Turn off your
cellular phone, your laptop, IPod, and pager.
·
No texting,
sleeping in class, reading the newspaper, coming late often, leaving early,
being distracted by your cellular, IPod,
etc.
Participation
includes your preparation for class (doing the homework) and your willingness
to participate in all class activities, such as conversations with your
instructor or with classmates during pair/group work. The class period is devoted to speaking
Spanish rather than to speaking about the language, therefore, your preparation for class is very important.
You are responsible for preparing
the scheduled material BEFORE coming
to class. This implies careful preparation of all assigned homework and
material from the text, including grammar explanations and corresponding
exercises.
Attendance Policy
Attendance will
be taken at the beginning of each class meeting. Due to the nature and
intensity of language courses, the emphasis on oral practice, participation,
and the pace of the course, attendance is mandatory. Regular attendance at all
class meetings is expected and is very important for your success since
everything that is said or done in class is considered “test material”. The
course meets four days per week and all students are expected to arrive on time
and participate actively for the entire class session. Chronic
tardiness and absences will affect your attendance grade.
You are allowed
to miss FOUR classes for the entire
semester, and do not have to give any reason for them. If you are absent more than four times during this
semester, one point will be deducted from your final grade starting with the 5th absence. For example, if you miss seven times,
you will lose three points off your attendance grade and final grade. If you
know that you cannot be on time for this class or are going to be missing more
than four times, drop this class now and take it at another time when you don’t
have any conflicts.
Group Work and Scholastic Honesty
Working with
other students is an extremely effective means of studying and not everyone in
the group needs to be at the same proficiency level. Get together with other
students to practice conversation or to help each other understand the grammar
explanations. Make sure, however, that you do not simply copy another student’s
work and turn it in as your own. Turning in work that you did not write, for
which you had considerable direct help from someone else, or that has been
translated by a translation service or computer program will be considered
cheating. Anyone copying from others, allowing others to copy their work, or
using fraudulently-obtained information will receive an F in this class and
will be reported to the Student Affairs Office.
How not to plagiarize: Go to http://library.csus.edu/content2.asp?pageID=353
Classroom Courtesy
Please turn off all laptops,
pagers, IPods and cellular phones while in the classroom. When your professor
is talking, you and other students need to listen. When your professor provides
time for pair and/or group work, you need to work with your partner or group.
This is not the time to talk to your professor about matters unrelated
to the assigned activity, work on other assignments or talk in a language other
than Spanish: these matters must be handled after class, during office hours,
or by appointment. You will be asked to leave if you engage in disruptive
behavior.
Class Procedure and General Goals
The primary focus of this
first semester of Spanish is to develop your ability to understand native
spoken and written Spanish and to increase your skill at expressing yourself in
basic everyday situations. Listening
comprehension and speaking
are the basis for the sound acquisition of a foreign language. As a child
learning your first language, you had lots of time to listen before you
attempted to speak. Don’t be impatient with yourself when you find that you can
understand far more than you can produce. That is only natural—your speaking
and writing abilities will always lag slightly behind your ability to
understand.
You cannot expect to acquire
native-like competence in a foreign language in one or two years. You can, however, expect to be able to
communicate with native speakers of Spanish even though you make mistakes. The
goal of this course is communicative competence, not oral grammatical
perfection. Grammatical perfection in writing (for example in written homework,
quizzes and tests), however, is possible and suggested as it will make your
understanding and practice of the language easier as time goes by. Therefore, it is recommended that, although
we do not do drill exercises in class, you spend time learning and
memorizing the forms covered in class.
This class will use speaking, listening, reading and writing activities
to enhance your grasp of vocabulary and to provide you with opportunities to
express yourself in Spanish.
Special Needs
Services for Students
with Disabilities (SSWD) offers a wide range of support services and
accommodations to students based on appropriate documentation, the nature of the
disability, and academic need in order to ensure equal access and opportunity to
pursue their educational goals. In order to initiate services, students must
submit medical or professional documentation to SSWD, Lassen 1008, (916)
278-6955. See details in the SSWD webpage at http://www.csus.edu/sswd/. Before course
accommodations can be made, a student needs to request accommodation from SSWD
and provide a letter to the instructor from them. Please discuss your
accommodations needs with me during my office hours early in the semester.
CSU Employee
Furloughs (2009-2010) – Impact on Classes
This year across
this campus and around the CSU system some class days will be cancelled due to furloughs. A furlough is mandatory
un-paid time off, and this academic year faculty and staff on each CSU campus
are being “furloughed” for two days per month. These cancelled class days are
marked on the calendar above and it is important to recognize that they are not holidays. Instead, they
are concrete examples of how massive state budget cuts have consequences both
for you as students and for me as a faculty member. In all, all faculty
salaries have been cut 9.23% in exchange for our working two fewer days each
month.
The CSU has suffered
chronic underfunding for at least 10 years. This year the budget cuts are the
worst in the history of our university system — $584 million or 20% of our
budget. The CSU administration is attempting to deal with these cuts through
substantial increases in your student fees, elimination of some classes, and
lay-offs of faculty and other university employees. In addition to paying
higher tuition, you will be affected by reduced services and classes. The
library will have shorter hours and many campus support services will be
decreased or eliminated. It will also be more difficult to get signatures to
meet deadlines. Classes you need may have been cut from the class schedule or
are full. Please be prepared for all of this.
Spanish 1A Tentative Course Calendar (Fall 2009)
|
Day |
Material |
Day |
Material |
|
Week 1 |
|
Week 9 |
|
|
August 31 |
Introduction |
October 26 |
Exam 3 (Chapter 2) |
|
September 2 |
Paso A |
October 28 |
Chapter 3 |
|
September 3 |
Paso A |
October 29 |
Chapter 3 |
|
September 4 |
Paso A |
October 30 |
Chapter 3 |
|
Week 2 |
|
Week 10 |
|
|
September 7 |
Labor Day—No class |
November 2 |
Chapter 3 |
|
September 9 |
Paso B |
November 4 |
Chapter 3 |
|
September 10 |
Paso B |
November 5 |
Chapter 3 |
|
September 11 |
Paso B |
November 6 |
Chapter 3 |
|
Week 3 |
|
Week 11 |
|
|
September 14 |
Paso C |
November 9 |
Chapter 3 |
|
September 16 |
Paso C |
November 11 |
Veterans Day--No class |
|
September 17 |
Furlough Day—No class |
November 12 |
Furlough Day—No class |
|
September 18 |
Paso C |
November 13 |
Exam 4 (Chapter 3) |
|
Week 4 |
|
Week 12 |
|
|
September 21 |
Exam 1 (Pasos A-B-C) |
November 16 |
Chapter 4 |
|
September 23 |
Chapter 1 |
November 18 |
Chapter 4 |
|
September 24 |
Chapter 1 |
November 19 |
Chapter 4 |
|
September 25 |
Chapter 1 |
November 20 |
Chapter 4 |
|
Week 5 |
|
Week 13 |
|
|
September 28 |
Chapter 1 |
November 23 |
Chapter 4 |
|
September 30 |
Chapter 1 |
November 25 |
Furlough Day—No class |
|
October 1 |
Chapter 1 |
November 26 |
Thanksgiving |
|
October 2 |
Chapter 1 |
November 27 |
Thanksgiving |
|
Week 6 |
|
Week 14 |
|
|
October 5 |
Chapter 1 |
November 30 |
Chapter 4 |
|
October 7 |
Exam 2 (Chapter 1) |
December 2 |
Furlough Day—No class |
|
October 8 |
Chapter 2 |
December 3 |
Chapter 4 |
|
October 9 |
Chapter 2 |
December 4 |
Chapter 4 |
|
Week 7 |
|
Week 15 |
|
|
October 12 |
Chapter 2 |
December 7 |
Chapter 4 |
|
October 14 |
Chapter 2 |
December 9 |
Review |
|
October 15 |
Chapter 2 |
December 10 |
Furlough Day—No class |
|
October 16 |
Furlough Day—No class |
December 11 |
Review |
|
Week 8 |
|
|
|
|
October 19 |
Chapter 2 |
Monday 12/14 |
Final Exam |
|
October 21 |
Chapter 2 |
10:15AM-12:15PM |
|
|
October 22 |
Chapter 2 |
|
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October 23 |
Furlough Day—No class |
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