Second Year, First Semester (201)
At the end of this semester students should be able to make progress in achieving the following outcomes using multiple paragraphs.
- Presentational Objectives: Using academic language to, e.g.,
- write reports of increasing length and complexity, including short, interdisciplinary research projects using target language sources and websites
- give increasingly lengthy and less-rehearsed oral presentations, of 2-3 minutes in length by the end of the third quarter
- begin to narrate in the past
- narrate in present and future
- compare and contrast significant people and events in target cultures
- Interpretive Objectives: Understanding the target language in order to, e.g.,
- analyze and synthesize the main ideas and supporting data in authentic written texts
- comprehend narration in present, past, future
- identify themes and other literary ideas in fiction, poetry, and/or nonfiction and relate themes to student experience
- follow and summarize shifting topics in a conversation
- Interpersonal Objectives: Interacting with others, including, e.g.,
- socially appropriate expression of respect, politeness, gratitude, friendliness, and distance
- state feelings and emotions
- identify problems or complications and propose solutions to them
- discussion of academic and professional topics with increasing sophistication
