Version 1 and 2: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: listen, speak, read, and write in Spanish at an introductory level; comprehend the main ideas of aural sentences, short routine conversations, simple announcements, and reports of increasingly complex topics through dialogue; comprehend and respond to a variety of communicative tasks and social situations; comprehend basic ideas of written Spanish dealing with a variety of basic and social needs; create and connect structurally simple statements or questions in writing involving preferences, everyday events, and daily routines; discuss the values, traditions, and contemporary life of Hispanic cultures; comprehend aural discourse referring to basic personal background and needs, lodging, transportation, and shopping; comprehend a diversity of aural instructions and directions, face-to-face conversations, telephone conversations, and simple media broadcasts in Spanish; participate in simple conversations about self and family members; ask and answer common questions orally; make statements and express opinions about familiar topics; respond to unfamiliar questions on familiar topics; give instructions using simple commands; pronounce Spanish clearly; use sufficient vocabulary to participate in social conversations; use grammatical structures and past, present, and future verb tenses, including irregulars within structured situations; read short, straightforward descriptions written in Spanish for a wide audience; read a Spanish text with increasingly complex topics with the aid of a Spanish dictionary; summarize orally or in writing the content of a reading selection; read selections about the culture of the Spanish-speaking world; reflect on issues and appreciate the diversity in Hispanic cultures; create structurally simple sentences and questions in writing; express present, past, and future time consistently; write with minimal errors short compositions on an assigned topic; and write a simple paragraph using correct sentence structure.