This course is taught entirely in Cal Poly's state-of-the art language laboratory and "smart classroom": the Polylingual International Resource Center, which opened in Spring Quarter, 2000. At the right is a photo of the class taught during Summer Quarter, 2000. (Note: the hat sitting on the computer monitor at the lower right is Dr.William Little's. He commissioned it from a fine leather artesano in Buenavista de Cuéllar, Morelos (south of Cuernavaca) while he was directing Cal Poly's International Study Program in México during the Summer of 1998.)

Course Goals:

• This course focuses on the language and cultures of the Spanish-speaking peoples. It will introduce students to all of the basic aspects of the language spoken by five hundred million people who speak Spanish as a first language and the three quarters of a billion people who speak it as a first or second language.

• Above all, we hope to enrich our lives here and now in California. To achieve this goal the course balances theoretical knowledge about Spanish grammar with classroom and web-based experience of the culture by means of art, music, literature, photography, videos, film, in-class conversation, oral and written grammar practice, and much more.

TEXTBOOKS:

• Puntos de Partida
• Puntos de Partida; Cuaderno de Ejercicios

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