Spanish Language - Advanced
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| SP301 Advanced Spanish in Usage I |
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| This course is designed for students who have an intermediate to advanced level of Spanish and
want to improve their communicative competence. By using specific tasks, students gain knowledge of the usages of subjunctive in noun, relative and adverbial clauses.
They improve their ability to express and defend their opinion. They will also learn strategies to be able to understand real texts taken from the media and literature
related to contemporary Spain. Students have to do 2 oral presentations expressing their opinions or comparing cultural aspects of Spain and the USA. Credits: 4 |
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| SP302 Advanced Spanish in Usage II |
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| This course aims to prepare the students for critical expression, offering them the necessary elements
and resources to debate, support arguments, speculate in the past and the present, and declare their own wishes and opinions. The grammatical elements covered throughout
the course include all tenses of subjunctive and the usage of idioms and Spanish proverbs. They do 2 oral presentations in class, and learn how to write a final research
paper on a topic of professional or personal interest. Credits: 4 |
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| SP303 Advanced Spanish for Business |
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| This course aims to develop business skills in Spanish for advanced students. SP303 prepares students for critical expression, discursive as well as argumentative skills that are necessary in order to progress and communicate in a professional context. Following a communicative approach, students faced with complex grammatical structure all presented in a business world setting through simulations and Field studies to important companies in Barcelona. The grammatical elements covered throughout the course include all tenses of the subjunctive, the past tense and the usage of formal discourse as well as business vocabulary. At the end of the semester students have the opportunity to take the Business Spanish Exam (Examen Intermedio de Español de los Negocios) offered by the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce at the IESE Business School. Credits: 4 |
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| SP350 Intensive Advanced Spanish in Usage I-II |
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| This intensive course combines SP301 and SP302 in one term. This course follows a communicative
teaching method and complex grammatical structures will be covered throughout the semester. Spanish subordinate clauses, reported speech and usage of all tenses
from indicative to subjunctive mood will be studied. Students will practice their oral and written skills while being immersed in Spanish culture; they will actively participate in different communicative activities inside and outside the classroom. Similarly, reading analysis of literary texts and news articles will be a great part of the course in order for the student to become familiar with idioms, formal expressions and academic writing . At the end of this course, students will be at a high advanced level. Credits: 7 |
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| SP400 Advanced Writing Seminar |
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| This course is designed for those students who are at the advanced level and want to
improve their writing skills. The main project?? of the class is a Spanish magazine done in class which will be posted every week in the IES Barcelona website.
Each student will be responsible of a specific section of the magazine and will write one article per week following specific grammatical guidance. Students not
only gain linguistic and cultural knowledge, but they improve their critical thinking and team work skills in this class. Credits: 4 |
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| SP491 Spanish for Bilingual Speakers |
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| This course is designed for those students who have learned Spanish outside an academic
context but speak it fluently. The main goal is to help them improve their writing skills up to the superior level. There is an emphasis on vocabulary, grammar
and spelling correction. Students also have to read literary texts and newspaper articles about the most relevant aspects of contemporary Spanish culture. One
part of the final evaluation consists on a research oriented project done in groups in order to explore the new culture they are immersed into. Credits: 4 |
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| CT101 Catalan Language for Beginners |
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| This Catalan course uses communicative activities (learning by tasks) that work with a
lexical context (study of basic vocabulary) and study a supporting grammar. The content includes gender and number agreement, articles, pronouns, adverbs and
prepositions, present indicative, preterit ad imperfect tenses, and will touch on the future tense. This grammatical base will allow the students to communicate
and understand everyday conversations by the end of the course as well as produce texts at a basic competence level. Credits: 3 Instructor: Prof. Ingles |
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