Spanish Language - Spanish Honors Program

Spanish courses for Honors Program
SP400 Advanced Writing Seminar
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 Instructor: Ariadna Saiz
SP491 Spanish for Bilingual Speakers
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 Instructor: Ariadna Saiz
CT101 Catalan Language for Beginners
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: Pep Ingles