SPANISH 3180 Business Spanish (3 Credits)
This course is created with the intention of offering the student, within a simulated working environment, exposure to advanced linguistics structures and specific, technical and specialized Spanish vocabulary and terminology used within the business world.

The objectives are, therefore, to improve communicating and writing skills as well as reading comprehension and listening skills within a specific professional environment.

To do so, we use communicative methodology, creating emphasis on the approach towards the work task. Virtual and technological resources are used, as well as hard copy materials that are previously selected, which include newspapers articles, examples of business letters, grammar and vocabulary activities with the objective of making classes more visual, dynamic and interactive.

Prerequisite: 5 semesters of college-level Spanish.

SPANISH 3640 Spanish Civilization (3 Credits)
This course offers the students a general overview of Spanish civilization from the beginning up to contemporary times. The course not only covers the development of the history in general, but it also strengthens the connection between the different structures that grow in any human community: economical activities, social and political organizations, culture, ideology, artistic, literary and religious activities. The objective is that the student understands the diversity of the country.

Prerequisite: 5 semesters of college-level Spanish.

SPANISH 4010 Hispanic Culture in the Cinema & TV (3 credits) 
This course is meant for those students that are competent from a linguistic point of view, but for those who are not familiar with the culture and the deep union Cinema and Television have with the language. Through Spanish cinema, the student will have the opportunity to be more familiar with local expressions, habits, customs and the way Spaniards behave. Therefore, the students find it easier to adjust to how to react and behave in different situations in Spanish.

Prerequisite: 5 semesters of college-level Spanish.

HISTORY 3070 Latin America History (3 Credits)
Taught in Spanish, this course covers the development of Hispanic and Portuguese America from the age of discovery to the present day. Seville is a particularly appropriate place to study this subject, as it was the first port and for many years the only one authorized for voyages to the New World. Seville is the permanent home of the Archives of the Indies.

Prerequisite: 5 semesters of college-level Spanish.

HISTORY 3370 Twentieth-Century Spanish History (3 credits)
Taught in Spanish, this course will examine Spain´s twentieth-century history main events, including the Spirit of ´98, Spain and World War I, the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, the Second Republic, the Civil War, the new order under Franco, Spain´s international isolation, the transition through King Juan Carlos I with the arrival of democracy and the latest historical developments.

Prerequisite: 5 semesters of college-level Spanish.

SPANISH 3210 Survey of Spanish Literature: 18th-20th C. (3 Credits)
This course is a basic close-up to 19th-20th C. Spanish Literature, dealing with aesthetic and literary movements, beginning with Romanticism, also studying specific authors belonging to those movements, from a practical point of view through their texts.

Prerequisite: 4 semesters of college-level Spanish.

SPANISH 3250 Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature (3 Credits)
This course gives a general overview of the twentieth century, starting with a chronological division by aesthetic and literary movements, expanding later the information on authors and their texts. These texts will show the different literary genres most used in this period of time. The different movements and authors will be tied in together with most important historical events of Spanish History: 1898 Crisis, the Civil War, Franco´s Dictatorship.

Prerequisite: 5 semesters of college-level Spanish.

SPANISH 3280 Women in Spanish Literature (3 Credits)
This course focuses on the analysis of works written by Spanish women from the Golden Age to the present day, putting emphasis on the progressive change in the women's role in literature and in Spanish society today.

Prerequisite: 5 semesters of college-level Spanish.

SPANISH 4270 Cervantes (3 Credits)
This course could be considered a monographic study about the author, not only as author of Don Quixote de la Mancha, but also as author of other important works that are relevant to Spanish literature. We will connect his personal life as the prototype of a Spanish renaissance man and the realization of his work.

Prerequisite: 5 semesters of college-level Spanish.

ART 3800 Artistic Monuments in Seville (3 credits) 
Taught in Spanish, the main objective of this course is to introduce students to the historical, economical, artistic, social and religious aspects of Seville through its important and numerous monuments. The city itself will be the main guideline of this course. In each class meeting, students will study various artistic-architectural points of interest. Students will also be able to appreciate the cultural impact that many other cultures have left behind on the city throughout its history. 

Prerequisites: 5 semesters of college-level Spanish

LAB FEE: Students will have to pay 80€ to cover all entry fees during the visits.

ART 4900 Spanish Painting from the Renaissance to the 20th Century (3 credits)
Taught in Spanish, this course covers the major art movements and external influences on Spanish painting and then focuses on the analysis of the most renowned Spanish painters worldwide. El Greco, Velázquez, Goya, Picasso, Dali and Miro will all be the subjects of a special study.

Prerequisite: 5 semesters of college-level Spanish.

 

SPANISH 3050 Third Year Composition and Conversation I (3 Credits)
(All students taking this course are required to take SPANISH 3100 Intercambio Activity listed below).

This course focuses on communicative skills, working towards perfecting the skills to speak, read, write and understand Spanish.

The objective of this course is that the student can: express orally and in writing their experiences and events, desires, as well as justify their opinions or explain their plans and try to influence the opinions and reactions of others/ understand the main points of texts written in everyday , familiar Spanish / have a general knowledge of real Spanish socio-culture and culture/participate in social exchanges and in more complex everyday situations.

Prerequisite: 4 semesters of college-level Spanish.

SPANISH 3060 Third Year Composition and Conversation II (3 Credits)
(All students taking this course are required to take SPANISH 3100 Intercambio Activity listed below).

Following Spanish 3050, the course covers the basic structures of the Spanish language to enable the student to have a comprehensive understanding of all Spanish constructions and thus proceed to a more advanced level.

The objective of the course is that the student: is able to understand the main ideas of informational texts and texts of a certain complexity that require exposure to and general knowledge of Spanish culture / can provide detailed information on general topics / can write texts of certain length and grammatical complexity / can interact with native speakers with a degree of fluency and spontaneity and to participate in social exchanges of certain formality.

Prerequisite: 5 semesters of college-level Spanish, including one course in composition and conversation.

SPANISH 4060 Fourth Year Spanish Composition and Conversation (3 Credits)
(All students taking this course are required to take SPANISH 3100 Intercambio Activity listed below). 

The objectice of this course is to develop and increase the student’s communication to an advanced level of Spanish. This course will focus upon the practice and participation of the students in and out of class and the interaction with all elements that form a part of the learning process of a language. 

Prerequisite: 6 semesters of college-level Spanish, including two courses in composition and conversation.

SPANISH 3100 Intercambio Activity (1 Credit)
(Mandatory for those students who have completed SPANISH 3050, SPANISH 3060 or SPANISH 4060).

It is a practical class of cultural immersion. All the students on the program are assigned an Intercambio, a native Spaniard who they will meet at least once a week. The Intercambio activities will be held outside of the classroom so that students can practice their Spanish in real-life situations.

The student will write compositions about different topics the professor assigns throughout the semester. In these compositions the student will demonstrate the cultural aspect acquired through the social interaction with the natives as well as developing writing skills in Spanish at the same time.

SPANISH 3700 Spanish Phonetics (3 Credits)
This course consists of a general overview of Spanish phonetics, both vowels and consonants, with a clear objective of focusing on proper pronunciation of the Spanish language, and thus, a better recognition of it. At the same time, in this course, students will deal with importance issues such as accentuation/emphasis, intonation, syllabic division and the varieties of Spanish and languages in Spain.

Prerequisite: 4 semesters of college-level Spanish.