Please notice that there are several different types of formal assessment in this class: 

You will be evaluated on the information included in our textbook, the content discussed in class (including your classmates' oral presentations and comments on daily news) and on any supplementary readings by means of two tests and five vocabulary quizzes.

It is very important to notice that your daily class participation is a 10% of your grade. Make sure to be an active participant in class on a daily basis.

You will be evaluated on your individual effort through the presentation of newspaper business articles and your report on one of the countries studied in class. You will be also in charge of at least one professional PowerPoint presentation about one of these countries. These tasks are designed to give you the opportunity to learn about Hispanic business issues, to allow you some practice in evaluating and selecting information, and to have the opportunity to make a formal oral presentation in Spanish on a regular basis.

Note that you will be the "expert" role in these assignments, and that you are responsible for "teaching" your classmates about your topic. The semester project and the business and culture assignments will also assess your individual effort. These activities are designed to help you apply your knowledge and the information we learn in class in real world contexts, to keep you in touch with current events and cultural items and to get a better command of the technology and techniques used in the businesss milieu. 

You will be evaluated on a collaborative effort through your group project. Note that the grade for this final work is a group grade, and everyone will receive the same final grade for the presentation and the written document. It is up to your group to make sure everyone contributes. The group, and not the instructor, is fully responsible for the work of each of its members. The instructor may consider the possibility of individual grades in the case of particular outstandingly good or bad performances.

Recognizing that we all have different strengths and weaknesses, the class allows for variation, that is, evaluation of oral and written performances, focus on will-power and good intentions, semester evolution of the student and so on. 

Final grades will be assigned based on the following percentage distribution: 

Digital portfolio 5%

Vocabulary quizzes 10% 

News 10% 

Class performance 10%

Business and cultural assignments (commercial letters, Extemplate, etc.) 10% 

Power Point presentation 10%

Personal project (report) 15%

Group final project 15%

Chapter Exams 15% 

Please notice that no grade is given for simple attendance at all and the fact that this is a 3 credit course.

Written assigments are graded according to the following scale:

Scale	Points	American equivalence	Meaning
OK++	5	A	Very outstanding
OK+	4	B	Outstanding
OK	3	C	Very good, correct
OK-	2	D	Insufficient
OK- -	1	F	Very insufficient

Unexcused late submission of any homework will cause a penalty of 1 point.

Any unexcused missing homework or test is graded with 0 points

Quizzes and tests are graded according to a ten-point scale (Spanish system) which can be compare with the following letter scale (American system):