Spanish (SPA)

SPA 101  Beginning Spanish I  (4 CR.)  
Introduces cultural awareness, listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills, and emphasizes basic sentence structure. Part I of II. Lecture 4 hours. Total 4 hours per week.
This is a UCGS transfer course.  
Credit for Prior Learning available for this course. More information at https://www.nvcc.edu/admissions/cpl.html.  
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SPA 102  Beginning Spanish II  (4 CR.)  
Introduces cultural awareness, listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills and emphasizes basic sentence structure. Part II of II. Lecture 4 hours. Total 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s) SPA 101, or two years of successful completion of high school Spanish, or demonstrated experiential learning, or by placement test, or equivalent  
This is a UCGS transfer course.  
Credit for Prior Learning available for this course. More information at https://www.nvcc.edu/admissions/cpl.html.  
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SPA 103  Basic Spoken Spanish I  (3 CR.)  
Teaches oral communication and introduces cultural mores and customs to students with no prior instruction in the language. Lecture 3 hours per week.
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SPA 104  Basic Spoken Spanish II  (3 CR.)  
Prerequisite for SPA 104 is SPA 103. Teaches oral communication and introduces cultural mores and customs to students with no prior instruction in the language. Lecture 3 hours per week.
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SPA 115  Intensive Beginning Spanish  (5 CR.)  
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 5 hours per week.
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SPA 150  Spanish For Law Enforcement  (3 CR.)  
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.
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SPA 163  Spanish For Health Professionals I  (3 CR.)  
Introduces Spanish to those in the health sciences. Emphasizes oral communication and practical medical vocabulary. May include oral drill and practice. Lecture 3 hours per week.
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SPA 164  Spanish For Health Professionals II  (3 CR.)  
Prerequisite for SPA 164 is SPA 163. Introduces Spanish to those in the health sciences. Emphasizes oral communication and practical medical vocabulary. May inclue oral drill and practice. Lecture 3 hours per week.
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SPA 201  Intermediate Spanish I  (3 CR.)  
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. Lecture 3 hours. Total 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s) SPA 102, or three years of successful completion of high school Spanish, or demonstrated experiential learning, or by placement test, or equivalent  
This is a UCGS transfer course.  
Credit for Prior Learning available for this course. More information at https://www.nvcc.edu/admissions/cpl.html.  
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SPA 202  Intermediate Spanish II  (3 CR.)  
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. Lecture 3 hours. Total 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s) SPA 201, or four years of successful completion of high school Spanish, or demonstrated experiential learning, or by placement test, or equivalent  
This is a UCGS transfer course.  
Credit for Prior Learning available for this course. More information at https://www.nvcc.edu/admissions/cpl.html.  
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SPA 205  Spanish For Heritage Speakers I  (3 CR.)  
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. Lecture 3 hours per week.
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SPA 206  Spanish For Heritage Speakers II  (3 CR.)  
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. Lecture 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s) SPA 205  
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SPA 211  Inter Spanish Conversation I  (3 CR.)  
Continues to develop fluency through emphasis on idioms and other complex sentence structures. Lecture 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s) SPA 202 or equivalent  
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SPA 212  Inter Spanish Conversation II  (3 CR.)  
Continues to develop fluency through emphasis on idioms and other complex sentence structures. Lecture 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s) SPA 202  
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