SUGGESTED ENTRY-LEVEL SPANISH CLASSES

The following are general guidelines to help students self-select the appropriate Spanish class in which to start off here at Georgia Tech.

If you are in doubt as to your individual placement, talk to a faculty member!

This is the right class for you if...

• You have never taken any formal classes in Spanish before.
• You have taken 1 year of high school Spanish or its equivalent; in this case,
  you may only take 1001 on a pass/fail or audit basis, and only with permission of the instructor.
• You are basically non-communicative in Spanish.
• You should follow-up 1001 by taking 1002. Passing both 1001 and 1002 allows you to earn 6 hours of humanities credit. If you just take 1001, you will only earn 3 hours of free elective credit.

WHO SHOULD TAKE SPAN 1101?

This is the right class for you if...

• You have taken no more than 3 years of high school Spanish.
• You sometimes find it difficult to follow what the teachers says in Spanish, but you can function in an all-Spanish classroom.
• You can say a few words at a time, even phrases and sentences, but in conversations you have frequent stops and explanations to help you follow along.
• You find it difficult to read an entire text in Spanish, because you can't figure the sentences out and/or there are too many words you don't know.
• You can write a sentence or two, but you almost always need to look something
  up.
• You should follow-up 1101 by taking 1102.
• Passing both 1101 and 1102 allows you to earn 6 hours of humanities credit. If you just take 1001, you will only earn 3 hours of free elective credit.

This is the right class for you if...

• You have taken Spanish 1001 at Georgia Tech, or its equivalent at another college/university.

This is the right class for you if...

• You have taken Spanish 1101 at Georgia Tech, or its equivalent at another college/university.

WHO SHOULD TAKE SPAN 2001?

This is the right class for you if...

• You have taken more than 3 years of high school Spanish, 1 year of college-level Spanish, or its equivalent.
• You are able to understand most of what your teacher says in Spanish, and you are comfortable in an all-Spanish classroom.
• You are hesitant when you speak Spanish, and you make vocabulary and structure mistakes, but you can describe yourself, talk about your interests, ask other people about themselves and their activities, etc.
  
• You have done some reading in Spanish, but it takes you some time and effort to follow the gist of a story or newspaper/magazine article.
  
• You can write several paragraphs about yourself and your friends or family,
  without a dictionary, but with errors.

WHO SHOULD TAKE SPAN 2002?

This is the right class for you if...

• You have completed 2001 at Georgia Tech, or its equivalent at another college/university.
  

These should be the right classes for you if...

• You received a score of 4/5 on the AP Spanish language test or you received a 5 or higher on the International Baccalaureate Spanish test.
• You have no problems following your teacher in Spanish or the other students in an all-Spanish classroom.
  
• You speak easily, make few mistakes, and are able to speak comfortably in the past or present, and to talk a little bit about relatively sophisticated issues such as critical opinions, politics, etc.
  
• You can read unabridged Spanish texts fairly easily with the help of a dictionary. It might take time, but you can read with attention and some enjoyment.
  
• You're comfortable writing longer compositions that develop an argument or a position on a serious issue.
• You may need a dictionary occasionally, but you make few grammatical errors