Foreign Language

FLNG 1104 – Elementary French I

3 credits

This course is based on the integration of learning outcomes across Interpersonal, Interpretive, and Presentational Modes of Communication. Students accomplish real-world communicative tasks in culturally appropriate ways as they gain familiarity with products, practices, and perspectives of the target culture(s). Students learn grammar, vocabulary, and structures to enable them to meet functional performance goals at this level and to build a foundation for continued language learning. During this course, students generally perform in the Novice range, although a few abilities may emerge in the Intermediate range.

FLNG 1105 – Elementary French II

3 credits | Prerequisite: FLNG 1104

This course builds upon the foundation laid in FLNG 1104, and uses the same text. It is the second phase in the two-course sequence which comprises elementary French at SSCC.

This course is based on the integration of learning outcomes across Interpersonal, Interpretive, and Presentational Modes of Communication. Students accomplish real-world communicative tasks in culturally appropriate ways as they gain familiarity with products, practices, and perspectives of the target culture(s). Students learn grammar, vocabulary, and structures to enable them to meet functional performance goals at this level and to build a foundation for continued language learning. During this course, students perform better and stronger in the Novice range while some abilities emerge in the Intermediate range.

FLNG 1107 – Elementary Spanish I

3 credits | Prerequisite: None. It is required that students with less than two years of high school Spanish begin at this level. Students who have completed two years of high school Spanish at least 5 years ago must enroll at this level.

In this course, the student is introduced to the Spanish language and Hispanic culture. Basic skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing are developed. Cultural readings and videos are included in each lesson, giving the student additional opportunity to utilize the target vocabulary and grammar in classroom conversation.

FLNG 1108 – Elementary Spanish II

3 credits | Prerequisite: FLNG 1107. Students who have completed two (2) years of high school Spanish within the last four (4) years may also enroll at this level.

This course builds upon the foundation laid in FLNG 1107, and uses the same text. It is the second phase in the two-course sequence which comprises elementary Spanish at SSCC.

Skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing in Spanish are further developed in this course. Cultural readings and videos are included in each lesson, giving the student additional opportunity to utilize targeted vocabulary and grammar in classroom conversation.

FLNG 1120 – Beginning American Sign Language I

4 credits

This course is an introduction to the basic skills in developing production and comprehension skills in American Sign Language (ASL). Students will learn ASL vocabulary, structure, and grammar. Course content also includes the manual alphabet and numbers. Students will develop basic conversational abilities, culturally appropriate behaviors, and learn about the culture and history of Deaf communities.

FLNG 1121 – Beginning American Sign Language II

4 credits | Prerequisite: FLNG 1120

FLNG 2207 – Intermediate Spanish I

3 credits | Prerequisite: FLNG 1108 or three (3) years of high school Spanish (within the last four (4) years).

Students will engage in advanced activities to further develop listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Students will expand knowledge of Hispanic cultures while investigating intercultural products, practices and perspectives. Students will view and listen to contemporary media sources, read magazine articles, poems, short stories and extended narratives, analyze components of spoken or written texts, narrate about events and experiences through writing and speaking and engage in more advanced levels of interpersonal communication.

Thematic units will include:

The World of Work and Future Trends
Art, Music and Literature
News and Current Affairs
Legends
Human Migration

Through exploration of unit themes, students' grasp of acquired grammar structures will be reinforced by review and active use of the present, preterite and imperfect tenses, the present and past perfect tenses and the present and present perfect subjunctive. In addition, new grammar structures will include the future and future perfect tenses, the conditional and conditional perfect tenses, the past perfect and imperfect subjunctive as well as si clause sentences.

FLNG 2208 – Intermediate Spanish II

3 credits | Prerequisite: FLNG 2207 or four (4) years of high school Spanish (within the last four (4) years).

Intermediate Spanish II is the second course in the intermediate sequence.

Thematic units will include:

Beliefs
Food, Food Security and Agriculture
The Cuban Revolution
Human Rights and Social Justice
Biodiversity and Ecology

Through exploration of unit themes, students' grasp of acquired grammar structures will be reinforced by review and active use of the indicative and subjunctive moods, commands, preterite vs imperfect and por vs para. In addition, new grammar structures will include passive voice, prepositions, vosotros commands and relative pronouns.

FLNG 2220 – Intermediate American Sign Language I

4 credits | Prerequisite: FLNG 1121

Intermediate American Sign Language I has been designed to build upon the student's prior knowledge and experiences from Beginning American Sign Language I & II. This course focuses on building narrative skills and developing real-world conversational skills used in everyday discussions. Students will continue to acquire cultural information through immersion in the Deaf Community and through the stories presented in the text and live in class. Students will gain the skills needed to express ideas and concepts and illustrate how things work using American Sign Language.

FLNG 2221 – Advanced American Sign Language

3 credits | Prerequisite: FLNG 2220

This course is designed to build upon the student’s prior knowledge and experience of American Sign Language (ASL). Students will be exposed to cultural interactions and stories from their text to bring them to a higher level of fluency in ASL.