{"id":9,"date":"2014-08-21T14:35:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T18:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/worldlang\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2015-03-02T14:56:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T19:56:41","slug":"classes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/world-languages\/classes\/","title":{"rendered":"Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At GCC, a student can study American Sign Language (ASL), French, Latin and Spanish. In ASL and Latin we offer a two-semester elementary sequence (101-102). In French and Spanish, the core four-semester elementary and intermediate offerings (101-202) are augmented by two upper intermediate courses, <em>Film and Language<\/em> and <em>Readings for Communication<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Separate from this sequence of courses, GCC offers <a title=\"Spanish for the professions\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/world-languages\/professional-spanish\/\">specialized courses for professionals wishing to use Spanish on the job<\/a>: <em>Spanish for<\/em> <em>Health Care Professionals, Spanish for Law Enforcement, Spanish for Educators<\/em> and<em> Spanish for Firefighters.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In these two different kinds of language courses, the GCC World Language department makes a key distinction between <em>language learning<\/em> and <em>language training<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In all our sequenced elementary and intermediate classes, the focus is on language <em>learning<\/em>; these are performance-based courses that allow learners to gain general functional proficiency in the language and culture.<\/p>\n<p>For available upcoming classes, please see our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/schedule\/\">online course guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At GCC, a student can study American Sign Language (ASL), French, Latin and Spanish. In ASL and Latin we offer a two-semester elementary sequence (101-102). In French and Spanish, the core four-semester elementary and intermediate offerings (101-202) are augmented by two upper intermediate courses, Film and Language and Readings for Communication. Separate from this sequence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/world-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/world-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/world-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/world-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/world-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/world-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/world-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}