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2025-2026 Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Catalog

SPA 260 - Oral Proficiency Interview Preparation

1 credit hour - Thirteen hours lecture, four hours lab; one term
Prepare for the Oral Proficiency Interview. Review and expand both vocabulary and grammatical structures required to hold predictable and concrete conversations within the target culture. Converse at a level that is easily understood by sympathetic interlocutor accustomed to dealing with non-native speakers.

Prerequisite(s): Twelve credits of SPA at the 200-level or permission from the department chair.

Location(s) Typically Offered: Arnold Main Campus (MC) and Online (OL)

Term(s) Typically Offered: Spring

Course Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Interact and negotiate meaning in conversations by sharing information, feelings, and opinions.
  2. Combine a variety of grammar structures and vocabulary to respond to oral prompts about a variety of topics.
  3. Present information, concepts, and ideas to inform, explain, persuade, and narrate a variety of topics.
  4. Interact in Spanish at a level consistent with that of someone who achieves a ranking of Intermediate-Mid or higher on the Oral Proficiency Interview.