Spanish 110 - Elementary Spanish

Spring
2014
01
4.00
Dimaris Barrios-Beltran, Maria Maillo
MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM
Amherst College
SPAN-110-01-1314S
BARR 105
dbarriosbeltran@amherst.edu; vmaillo@amherst.edu

SPAN 110 is an introduction to Spanish and Spanish-American cultures. This course is recommended for students who have either no previous training in Spanish or no more than two years of high school Spanish. It gives the student a basic understanding of and ability to use the language. Grammar is used as a point of departure for development of oral and written skills.


This course strives to teach students to understand sentences and common expressions and to communicate in simple terms simple aspects of their background (e.g., very basic personal and family information), the immediate environment (shopping, local geography, employment), and matters of immediate need. Three hours per week with the lecturer, plus two hours with a language assistant. For students without previous training in Spanish. This course prepares students for SPAN 120.


Limited to 15 students per section. Fall semester:  Lecturers Barrios-Beltrán, Twardy, and Assistants.  Spring semester:  Lecturer Barrios-Beltrán and Assistants.

Multiple required components--lab and/or discussion section. To register, submit requests for all components simultaneously.
You must take one section for each of the following coreqs : SPAN-110F
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.