Course Levels/Self-Placement

June 21-24, 2022 (Tuesday-Friday) Small_Logo

Program will include:

Program includes 8 hours of Spanish instruction
4 hours of facilitated conversation groups
Choose from a blended instruction level covering beginning through superior language levels
Experienced instructors
All courses conducted in Spanish

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Use the Self-Placement Tool to choose the proper level for registration.

COSSI Spanish Language A: Beginning Low through Beginning Mid (Levels 1-2)

Instructor: Janet Gesme

This course will blend concepts from levels beginning low and middle to create one diverse, robust, and challenging course. This level is for students with little to no Spanish speaking skills. Intensive language instruction will place an emphasis on the development of basic communication skills in Spanish. This course will introduce students to the present tense, fundamentals of verb conjugation, and basic sentence structure. Students will learn greetings, expressions of courtesy, and other useful beginning vocabulary. It will focus on key pronunciation differences between English and Spanish, the alphabet, and accent marks.

COSSI Spanish Language B: Beginning High through Intermediate Mid (Levels 3-5)
Instructor: Jessica Bollinger

This course will blend concepts from levels beginning high through intermediate middle to create one diverse, robust, and challenging course. This level is for students who have a working knowledge of the present tense. This course will provide a thorough review of the present tense, practice of -AR, -ER & -IR verbs, introduction of stem-changing verbs, Ser & Estar, "Tener + que + infinitive ", and "Ir + a + infinitive.", and the present progressive with estar + gerund. This course will provide an introduction to reflexive verbs and pronouns, as well as the preterit and imperfect tenses to talk about the past. There will be an emphasis on vocabulary development, communication strategies, and oral proficiency, and building grammatical structures that focus on speaking, reading, writing, and understanding.

COSSI Spanish Language C: Intermediate High through Advanced Mid (Levels 6-8)
Instructor: Eileen Poxon
This class will blend concepts from levels intermediate high through advanced middle to create one diverse, robust, and challenging course. Students should have a minimum of two years of Spanish language study at the college level or the equivalent in Spanish speaking experience. Students should have a command of the present tense and a working knowledge of the past and future tenses. This course will review and contrast the uses of the preterit and imperfect tenses and refine usage of vocabulary using idiomatic expressions and more advanced grammatical principles. It will introduce basic uses of the present subjunctive mood as well as formal commands, new vocabulary, and related expressions to expand the communicative strategies of the student.

COSSI Spanish Language D: Advanced High through Superior (Levels 9 & 10)
Instructor: Silvi Galmozzi

本课程面向最高级的学生，将包括高级和高级水平的概念，以创建一个强大的和具有挑战性的课程。学生必须至少有三年大学水平的西班牙语或同等的西班牙语经验。本课程将回顾过去时态和不完成时态的对比，以及现在虚拟语气的用法。附加的概念将包括不完全虚拟语气及其用法、条件时态及其用法的介绍。语法结构和词汇将突出通过文学选择，商业术语，习语表达，谚语，同义词和反义词。其他主题包括:代词“se”，复杂的句子和新的文学词汇，识别西班牙语世界的不同口音，以及如何提高自己的西班牙口音。

NOTE: Course offerings are contingent on sufficient enrollment.