Biola University 2015–16 Catalog
faith of people speaking the target language. Attention will be given to expressions of faith, religious practices, and the role of faith in the life of people and society. This course will be taught as a travel practicum. There is a substantial service learning component. When Offered: Interterm and Summer sessions. Prerequisite(s): 201. Fee: Additional fees may vary. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. HUFS 322 - Advanced Spanish for Heritage Learners I This course seeks to broaden the informal knowledge of Spanish that heritage learners bring to the classroom and focuses primarily on the development of formal speaking, reading, and writing abilities across a variety of topics and genders. Prerequisite(s): HUFS 220. Note(s): Students can take one or both courses in the series based upon the recommendation of their instructor or program advisor. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. HUFS 323 - Advanced Spanish for Heritage Learners II This course seeks to broaden the informal knowledge of Spanish that heritage learners bring to the classroom and focuses primarily on the development of formal speaking, reading, and writing abilities across a variety of topics and genres. Prerequisite(s): HUFS 220. Note(s): Students can take one or both courses in the series based upon the recommendation of their instructor or program advisor. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. HUFS 330 - Advanced Spanish Conversation and Composition Learners will develop a much stronger command of the linguistic, sociolinguistic and pragmatic competencies of the language. At this level, learners will be able to understand without difficulty almost everything heard or read. Learners can express themselves in a fluent, precise and spontaneous way, and differentiate various connotations and levels of meaning in complex texts. Learners will produce well structured written texts on a wide variety of topics. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours each week. Prerequisite(s): HUFS 230. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. HUFS 334 - Community Spanish This Spanish language immersion course is a community-based, experiential learning opportunity in Spanish which will consist of Spanish in a classroom setting focusing on the exploration of local varieties of Spanish and Latino culture. Students are required to live in a Christian host family and participate in mandatory excursions and service learning in the target language during afternoon, evening, and weekend hours. The course will normally be offered during interterm and summer sessions. Prerequisite(s): 201 or higher. Fee: $500. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. HUFS 366 - Survey of Hispanic Literature The emphasis of this course is to examine and analyze specific authors and topics in Hispanic literature. The course will cover a variety of texts from Spain and Latin America composed of sections that correspond to the four main literary genres: fiction, poetry, drama and essay. The majority of each class session will be dedicated to readings, textual analysis, and writing on a broad selection of texts from different genres and periods. Prerequisite(s): HUFS 290. Note(s): This course will serve as a prerequisite to all 400-level literature courses. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. HUFS 380 - Directed Research Hispanic language or literature determined in consultation with the instructor. May be repeated for a maximum of three credits. Prerequisite(s): 210. Placement in Spanish classes will be based on a mandatory department assessment. Note(s): Students desiring to enroll in Spanish are strongly advised to do so during their freshman and sophomore years. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 1–3. HUFS 385 - Translation Consecutive translation for prose documents in various fields of specialization, and subtitling. This course will provide an opening into the field of translation and will introduce students to translation theory and some specialized texts. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours each. Prerequisite(s): 322 or 330. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. HUFS 390 - Spanish in the Professions Develops oral and written skills within the context of a professional discourse. Students will examine language contexts related to the chosen area and work to develop profession-specific language proficiency. When Offered: Alternate semesters. Prerequisite(s): 220 or 230. Note(s): Will be offered with various professions, including communications, medical/ scientific, business, and religious professions. Field work will be required
HUFS 102 - Elementary Spanish The fundamentals of pronunciation, grammar, conversation and reading. Taught with emphasis on communication, comprehension, reading and writing. When Offered: Either semester. Lecture/Lab Hours: Five hours each week. Prerequisite(s): 101 or equivalent. Placement in Spanish classes will be based on a mandatory department assessment. Students entering the program with less than two years of high school Spanish or one semester of college Spanish will automatically be placed in the first course (HUFS 101). Students who do not maintain continuous enrollment in the program must be retested and placed accordingly. Advancement from one course in the lower-division sequence to the next will require demonstration of proficiency. Note(s): Approved for General Education Foreign Language credit. Students desiring to enroll in Spanish are strongly advised to do so during their freshman and sophomore years. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 4. HUFS 201 - Intermediate Spanish Advanced grammar, composition, increased facility in reading and conversation. When Offered: Either semester. Lecture/Lab Hours: Five hours each week. Prerequisite(s): 102 or equivalent or a satisfactory score on a placement exam given by the department. Placement in Spanish classes will be based on a mandatory department assessment. Students entering the program with less than two years of high school Spanish or one semester of college Spanish will automatically be placed in the first course (HUFS 101). Students who do not maintain continuous enrollment in the program must be retested and placed accordingly. Advancement from one course in the lower-division sequence to the next will require demonstration of proficiency. Note(s): Approved for General Education Foreign Language credit. Students desiring to enroll in Spanish are strongly advised to do so during their freshman and sophomore years. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 4. HUFS 210 - Intermediate Spanish II Intermediate grammar, listening, speaking, writing, reading. Course develops communication in various contexts with increasing proficiency. Learners will acquire greater command over basic and intermediate level structures. They will be equipped to use the linguistics sociolinguistic and pragmatic competencies in broader domains. At this level, the learner can perform the activities of the language perception (e.g., can understand the main ideas of complex texts on various topics, including semi-specialized language), of production (e.g., can express oneself clearly and in detail on a wide range of topics), in interaction (e.g., can maintain a conversation and interact with a certain degree of fluency and spontaneity). Lecture/ Lab Hours: Three hours each week. Prerequisite(s): 201. Placement in Spanish classes will be based on a mandatory department assessment. Students entering the program with less than two years of high school Spanish or one semester of college Spanish will automatically be placed in the first course (HUFS 101). Students who do not maintain continuous enrollment in the program must be retested and placed accordingly. Advancement from one course in the lower-division sequence to the next will require demonstration of proficiency. Note(s): Students desiring to enroll in Spanish are strongly advised to do so during their freshman and sophomore years. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. HUFS 220 - Basic Spanish for Heritage Learners This course will build upon and further develop the informal knowledge of Spanish that heritage learners bring to the classroom—usually from family and neighborhood exposure to the language—and cultivate formal speaking, reading, and writing abilities. Prerequisite(s): Assessment and/ or recommendation from a Spanish professor within the department. Note(s): Students are not expected to have any formal training in written Spanish prior to enrolling in this course. Students desiring to enroll in Spanish are strongly advised to do so during their freshman and sophomore years. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. HUFS 230 - Spanish Conversation and Composition The learner will acquire a more solid command of linguistic, sociolinguistic and pragmatic competencies; she/he will develop a stronger command of grammar structures, broader lexical repertoire, good command of idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms. The learner will be trained to activate the strategies she/he needs in order to understand a wide range of complex and longer texts, express him/herself with fluency and spontaneity that makes conversation possible with a native speaker. Produces well structured text, makes good use of connectors and cohesive words. Prerequisite(s): HUFS 210. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. HUFS 290 - Introduction to Literature in Spanish Course covers a variety of authors and topics in literature in Spanish, including a variety of Hispanic texts from Spain and Latin America. Literary genres will include narratives, poetry and drama. This course is taught in Spanish. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. HUFS 299 - Faith, Life and Culture: Travel Practicum Provides a historical and sociological examination of the role or religion, in particular Christianity in its various forms, in the culture, history, and
(service learning course). Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. HUFS 391 - Spanish for Health Care Professions
This course will focus on the aspects of the Spanish language that are specific to the health care professions, as well as the social and cultural issues that one might encounter when working within the Hispanic community. Through experiential learning, readings, discussions and fieldwork, students will develop socio-cultural understanding and
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