This document is a course outline for an introductory community college course designed to progressively increase the student's ability to understand, speak, read, and write Spanish. Additionally, the course is intended to give the student a gradually expanding and deepening knowledge of Mexico, its culture, geography, history, social organization, and literature. Included in this outline are learning goals and activities for the student as well as a listing of the material to be covered in each instructional unit. A bibliography of books and articles and two brief essays on the value of foreign language study are appended. (JDS)