ACC 390 Advanced Spanish

Content

This course is mainly designed for people who love culture, audio-visual material, reading and talking in Spanish. The grammatical approach is different from the rest of Spanish courses at the Spanish track. Grammar is seen from a more pragmatic and cognitive point of view and this makes the course very attractive to you. Grammar then will be put to serve the goals of communication with real Spanish speaking lecturers. This means that not all the classes will be lectured by the instructor, there will be at least 5 guest lectures invited to talk with about very interesting topics about politics, literature, art, music and so forth. You will be updated about what is going in the Spanish speaking world. In addition, this course aims to match your language skills with your professional interests.  This course is perfect for students who are in their last semester at RA.

The exit level corresponds to B2 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEF).

Important: students who have started their language track at the Acc 290 must finish it the Acc 390 to complete their language requirements.

Instructor

Carolina Sánchez-De Jaegher, M.A.

Period

Spring / 2011

Course Material

• Alzugaray Pilar, Barrios María José, Hernández Carmen. Preparación Al Diploma De Español Nivel Intermedio B2 Dele. Madrid: Edelsa Grupo Didascalia, 2007.
• Cano, Antonio. Practica tu español, Las preposiciones. Madrid: SGEL, 2006.
• Corpas, J. et al. (2005), Aula Internacional 4, Libro del alumno (con CD), Barcelona: Difusión.
• Losana, Emilio José. Practica tu español, Los tiempos del pasado. Madrid: SGEL, 2006.
• Diccionario Collins: Español-inglés, inglés-español, Barcelona: Grijalbo.

Prerequisites

The following course is required in order to take this course:

• ACC 290 Intermediate Spanish

Additional Prerequisites

Evidence of language ability (entrance test).