The definition of the teaching and learning objectives of the Spanish section recognises the plurality of these objectives, given varying student profiles. The section provides for students with different learning experience in Spanish, ranging from secondary school experience, study or travel in Spain or Latin America to no learning experience at all. Thus there are two first-year entry levels: beginners and intermediate. The definition of the objectives also recognises varying course configurations: the section offers first-year sequences, the minor, the major and honours.
Objectives vary according to the duration of study in the discipline, but any course (eg beginner or first-year only) is both discrete, with its own set of objectives, and a component of a longer course (ie a minor, a major and honours) with correspondingly more extensive objectives. None of the section's discrete offerings has as its only justification the fact that it belongs to a longer course.
The above has important implications for language-teaching methodology and the definition and coordination of the units of increasing complexity offered by the section.
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