Spanish 1014 Internet class

Fall 2004

Sr. Roberto Rodríguez

Office: HSS 4.01.03

Office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:00 to 5:15 PM.  Outside of these times, please make an appointment with me.  I will review e-mails daily and respond to them as I receive them.

Phone: office 458-5219; cell 825-7196

E-mail:  rarodriguez@utsa.edu

Web page: http://www.ashley40.net/my-home-page1.html

SYLLABUS

SPN 1014.  Elementary Spanish I.  4 credits.  Lab required

Review the fundamentals of Spanish, offering the opportunity to develop listening, speaking, reading and writing skills (additional emphasis on listening and speaking).  There will be further study of the Hispanic Culture.

This course is suited for students who have some Spanish speaking background or who have taken Spanish classes in high school.

This course is not recommended for true beginning students of Spanish.

TEXT & WORKBOOKS

Texts – Donley; Benavides; & Márquez.  Aventuras.  Primer curso de lengua española. 

USA: Vista Higher Learning, 2003. 

CD-ROM – included with purchase of new text.

Web-SAM packet – also included with purchase of new text.

Language Lab workbook – DESTINOS.  Volume 1 (optional)

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

This course is an Internet course that will require the full use of a computer and the World Wide Web.  Students are responsible for all assignments and work required by the instructor.  This course is also designed so that the student can work at his/her own pace. 

There will be deadlines applied to all assignments, as well as the viewing of Destinos lessons and its quizzes.  The course is accessible for those who wish to finish the course earlier than the regular 15 weeks time frame.

Students enrolled in this class must have computer skills.  Students will have the opportunity to view and do all their assignments (workbook manual, audio manual, and video manual), quizzes, short term paper and exams via the Quia web site and WebCT class Home page.

To gain entrances to Quia, go to http://books.quia.com/books follow the instructions provided in the Web-SAM packet on how to enroll.  You need at least Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or Netscape Communicator 4.7 to view the Web-SAM. 

The mandatory Destinos episodes 1-12 (they are streamlined), and the completion of short Destinos quizzes will be available via WebCT.  Students who are enrolled in this class will automatically be enrolled in WebCT.  Please go to http://webct.utsa.edu/ to log-in and see what system requirements are needed to browse WebCT.  All the directions and log-in instructions for students are on the WebCT Web-site listed above.  Once you are in WebCT, go through every icon and get yourself acquainted with all the material given via the icons.  Additional information for the completion of this entire Internet course is also located within the icons.

TUTORING

I will be available during my office hours.  If you need additional assistance outside of my office hours, please make an appointment with me.

The instructor reserves the right to change the syllabus or course outline at anytime and/or as needed, for the benefit of the class and education.

Muchas gracias…

Tentative Grades distribution:

Final                                  25     points

Mid-term                          10     “

Internet assignment         15     “

Homework                        40     “

Lab                                    10     “

                                          100   “