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.