SPAN 1501: Beginning Spanish I   

The primary goal of SPAN 1501 is to enable students to achieve basic communicative skills in Spanish. By the end of the semester you should be able to do the following:

· Understand spoken Spanish in simple conversations directed to you, and understand the main ideas of videos about Hispanic cultures;

· Speak Spanish well enough to communicate simple ideas and survive in a Spanish-speaking country;

· Handle the basic language functions and forms (tenses and other grammatical forms) in simple sentences in speaking and writing

· Understand the main ideas and some details of short, printed texts such as announcements, advertisements, brochures

· Write short texts

· Understand some of the cultural values, products and practices of the Hispanic world

TCCNS: [SPAN1411] Prerequisite: 0-1 years of high school Spanish. The Office of the Registrar must receive student’s official high school transcript prior to registration.

SCH: 5 Hours

Students will be required to purchase the following textbooks and/or courseware. More details are available in the course syllabus: 

Lingua Meeting online coaching sessions

Contrasena 

The Texas Tech University Self-Paced Courses Program does not guarantee credit hour transfers, and the student is responsible for determining whether a specific course transfer will be accepted at their current campus. 

For more information please visit our Self-Paced Program page or contact us at selfpaced.courses@ttu.edu. If you are ready to get started, please submit an application. 

REFUND POLICY: As access to the coursework is available immediately upon enrollment, any requests to drop after enrollment has occurred will be refunded at a reduced rate, reflecting a $150 administrative fee, through the first seven (7) calendar days of coursework access, so long as the course has not been completed within that seven-day period. Refunds are not eligible for any courses that have been completed. Any requests to drop a course on or following the eighth (8th) calendar day of coursework access will not be refunded.