--- Forwarded Message from "Ann Therkelsen" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Subject: Second-year Spanish >Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 11:53:13 -0800 >Thread-Topic: Second-year Spanish >Thread-Index: AcQY7LQruoZbrfxVSymt2Vd7HwL00A== >From: "Ann Therkelsen" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> Dear colleagues, What wisdom can you impart regarding ways to offer second-year Spanish (or any other under-enrolled language course) in which low enrollments make it impossible to offer them as a regular class? Presumably a well-equipped language lab, which we hope to acquire shortly, can support that, if not as an online or independent study course, perhaps in some sort of hybrid class/lab arrangement or...what? How can our lab help us make the courses available, pedagogically effective and cost effective? Not a new question...If anyone has been satisfied with student outcomes in online language courses or a lab equivalent, I'd love to know about that, as well as any other creative solutions to the problem of under-enrolled classes that seem to work. Also, does anyone know of a second-year Spanish text that is well supported by digital media, comparable to, say, ?Sabias Que? I will much appreciate any experience or information you're willing to share. Ann Therkelsen Whatcom Community College Bellingham, WA