Spanish community college course?

thatOneStudent
Thu, 22 May 2008 20:47:22 +0000

So it’s me again. The guy who would like to take Spanish 4 next year. So after looking at other colleges after my guidance counselor encouraged me to take a “Spanish 3” course over the summer and take Spanish 4 next year, I found some possible community colleges. According to some, the first, elementary Spanish course offered at community colleges is equivalent to the first two years of high school Spanish. That means that the next level, which, in the case of this one particular community college, the intermediate Spanish course (or at least, a semester of it) is equivalent to a Spanish 3 course, right? This assumption was opposed a month ago, but I don’t know if the picture was completely clear, especially after reading a post I’ve read on this forum.

Anybody care to shed some light? Especially, can someone decipher this? This is from the course catalog, describing the intermediate Spanish class I’m interested in:

“Prerequisite: SPAN 1B. Acceptable for credit: CSU, UC (CAN SPAN 8) (SPAN 2A+SPAN 2B: CAN SPAN Seq B”

SPAN 1B is, I think, the second semester of Elementary Spanish. I’m kind of hoping SPAN 1B is equivalent to a high school Spanish 2 course.

I would appreciate some prompt responses, as I’m kind of running out of time. This one popular community college I had planned to go to this summer is practically fully booked… So it’s scary.