Spanish 401 - Advanced Grammar
Syllabus || Calendar
Prerequisites
The prerequisites for Spanish 401 are:
- Spanish 250 or Spanish H104;
- Spanish Listening and Reading Proficiency Exam (SLRPE).
Note: Students enrolled in Spanish 401 may enroll in Spanish 403 concurrently.
Text
Lunn, Patricia and Janet DeCesaris (1992). Investigación de gramática. Boston: Heinle & Heinle.
Course Description
This is an advanced course in Spanish grammar, which will prepare students for further work in Spanish, and will provide them especially with the background necessary for more advanced courses in Spanish linguistics. While much of the focus will be on continued mastery of the most difficult points of Spanish grammar, the course will also strive to present a novel perspective on grammar as a communicative tool, not as a monolithic set of rules to be memorized.
Course Goals
- Provide students with the basic tools necessary to explain the "hows and whys" of Spanish grammar.
- Provide students with intensive practice of the most difficult grammatical aspects of Spanish.
- Provide students the opportunity to practice their Spanish language skills in a structured environment.
Tasks/Grading
- Quizzes (25%): There will be five (5) quizzes during the quarter; only four (4) of these will count towards the final grade. Thus, one quiz will be dropped, but note that it is not possible to drop a quiz which is not taken. Quizzes will cover material from readings and lectures.
- Homework (20%): Homework will be assigned at least once a week and will be due at the beginning of the next class period. Assignments will deal with material covered in readings and lectures.
- Class activities (5%): These daily activities are based on lectures and homework assignments, and cannot be made up for any reason.
- Exams (50%): There will be a mid-term examination and a final examination. The latter will not be cumulative, though a mastery of prior concepts will be necessary for those concepts which follow.
Late Policy
All assignments must be turned in during class on the day they are due. Late assignments will have one point (1/10) deducted for each working day that they are late. All requests for extensions must be discussed with me in advance.
| Letter Grade | Numerical Equivalent |
|---|---|
| A | 93 - 100 |
| A- | 90 - 92 |
| B+ | 88 - 89 |
| B | 83 - 87 |
| B- | 80 - 82 |
| C+ | 78 - 79 |
| C | 73 - 77 |
| C- | 70 - 72 |
| D+ | 68 - 69 |
| D | 65 - 67 |
| E | 0 - 64.9 |
Academic Misconduct
Academic misconduct is defined as any activity which tends to compromise the academic integrity of the institution, or subvert the educational process. All suspected cases of academic misconduct will be reported to the Committee on Academic Misconduct as required by University rules. Such instances include, but are not limited to: plagiarism (representing as one's own work anything done by another), cheating on assignments or examinations, collusion, falsification of excuses, submitting work from a previous quarter without explicit permission of the current instructor, violation of course rules contained in the syllabus or provided in class.For example for a written or oral report you should use the vocabulary, grammar structures, and strategies you've learned. Paraphrase your information and DO NOT "cut and paste" whole paragraphs from the web. Work submitted must be in your own words. "Borrowing" materials without citing sources is plagiarism
