What is Adequate Preparation For
Indiana University Independent Study Course: HISP S250?
To help determine whether you are ready for this course, please read through to the bottom of this page. Factors you will weigh: 1) your previous study, 2) grammar covered in our first three semesters of Spanish (S100, S150, S200) and to be covered in S250. 3) vocabulary covered in previous courses.
1. Your Previous Study of Spanish
The prerequisite for S250 is S200 (third-semester, college level, 3 credits) "or the equivalent." If you:
- have completed three semesters (11 semester hours) of college Spanish (or three or four years of high school Spanish) in the recent past (in the last two years, perhaps?)
- earned a passing grade in your last course (preferably a C or better)
- feel fairly confident that you have retained the basics of what you learned, or believe that you can recall most of it with some review
then you are probably adequately prepared for S250.
If your background varies from the above, you will need to weigh the factors. The alternative to taking S250 now is to take S200 (third semester) first, or a first-year course as a means of review.
2a. Grammar Covered by the End of the Previous Course
Students enrolling in this course are assumed to have had at least an introduction to the following grammar topics in previous Spanish study (taught in the first three units of the text--¿Qué te parece?, Second Edition):
- Lección preliminar;
- Noun-Adjective Agreement; Present Tense (Review)
- Unidad 1
- Forms and Uses of estar;
Definite Articles; Future Tense
- Future with ir (Voy a trabajar, etc.)
- Forms and Uses of ser
- Comparisons of Inequality and Equality
- Unidad 2
- Present Perfect (I have spoken, we have done, etc.)
- Preterite; Imperfect
- Present Subjunctive (forms, use after expressions of doubt, etc.)
- Subjunctive in Adjective Clauses
- (Lección 7 consists of a short story and the study of some paintings; Lección 8 is composition and review)
- Unidad 3
- Gustar and Similar Verbs
- More on Subjunctive in Adjectival Clauses
- Informal (tú) Commands
- Passive with ser + past participle
- Subjunctive in Noun Clauses (verbs of volition)
- Formal (Ud., Uds.) Commands
2b. Grammar Covered in S250
This is the grammar you will study in S250. You are not expected to know it before you begin the course, though you will have studied some of these structures previously.
- Unidad 4
- Lección 13
- Object Pronouns
- Present Subjunctive in Evaluative Statements
- Subjunctive in Adverbial Clauses
- Lección 14
- The Pronoun se
- Conditional Tense
- Contrary-to-Fact Statements (Conditional and Imperfect Subjunctive)
- (Lección 15 and Lección 16 consist of assignments on literature, art and composition.)
- Unidad 5
- Lección 17
- Review of the Conditional
- Subjunctive in Adjective Clauses
- Preterite and Imperfect
- Lección 18
- Subjunctive in Noun Clauses (after verbs of volition)
- Verb-Preposition Combinations
- Review of Pronoun se
- (Lección 19 and Lección 20 consist of assignments on literature, art, composition and review of previous material)
- Unidad 6
- Lección 21
- Pronominalized Definite Articles
- Review of Object Pronouns
- Review of Preterite
- Lección 22
- Pluperfect (I had talked, we had seen, etc.)
- Review of Contrary-to-Fact Sentences
- Future of Probability
- (Lección 23 and Lección 24 consist of assignments on literature, art, composition and review of previous material)
3. Vocabulary
A working knowledge of the basic vocabulary covered in all first-year texts is assumed. On the vocabulary sections of the exams, you will be specifically tested only on vocabulary that is introduced in the textbook units being tested on each exam.
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