Granada, Spain - UGR - Language - Superior Spanish I

COURSE SYLLABUS: SUPERIOR SPANISH I

Location: Granada, Spain

Partner Institution: University of Granada

Course Title: Superior Spanish I (Español Superior A)

Instruction in: Spanish

Program Title: CILE (Curso Intensivo de Lengua Española - Intensive Spanish Language Course)

Instruction in: Spanish

Contact Hours:

4 Weeks (80 hours – 4 hours of class per day)

2 Weeks (40 hours - 4 hours of class per day)

Depending on the Easter holidays, the CILE course in March or April is 60 hours instead of 80. In December only a 40 hour program is offered.
During the months of June, July and August students who need 90 or 45 contact hours for credit may add on 10 extra hours of Spanish as part of the program.

Note: The program for Spanish Courses complies with the content description set out in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. A level test is given at the start of the program.

General Description

To understand and express oneself correctly and fluently in situations familiar to the learner, and to communicate adequately in situations unfamiliar to the learner by means of complex linguistic structures.

Course Objectives

Listening Comprehension - To understand the general context and the details of conversations between several native speakers and oral texts spoken at normal speed, even when the subjects are unfamiliar to the learner.

Oral Production - To intervene in a pragmatically adequate way in conversations on any topic, contributing personal opinions and attitudes effectively, with fluency and accuracy.

Reading Comprehension - To understand the details and communicative aims of different types of texts on topics which are unfamiliar to the learner. However, these texts will not be of a specialized nature.

Writing Skills - To write pragmatically adequate texts of different types which do not only refer to daily needs but also to the personal and professional interests of the learner contributing information and expressing his or her personal opinions and attitudes in an effective way, with fluency and accuracy.

Course Content

Communicative content:

Exchange and evaluate personal information.
Exchange and evaluate general information.
Assess the attitude of others.
Express acceptance, rejection and evasion with differing degrees of enthusiasm.
Persuade and convince.
Justify and give excuses.
Maintain diverse types of interpersonal relationships.
Express accurately one’s point of view about an event.
Comment in detail the intentions another person has stated.
Give arguments with differing degrees of implication on a topic of conversation.
Formulate and refute statements of certainty, necessity and obligation.
Ask for and give explanations about cause, consequence, purpose and manner.
Express what is considered possible or probable.
Refuse and accept an expression of probability.
Give conditions for the fulfillment of an action.
Advise, suggest and recommend.
Express the wish to do something.
Express surprise.
Express compassion.
Express resignation.
Express satisfaction.
Express agreement and disagreement.
Express indignation.
Express indifference.
Understand and give information in linguistic registers: formal, informal, familiar and vernacular.
Understand the diverse social-linguistic and dialect varieties
Understand and reproduce the intention of intonation in enunciation.

Grammatical Content:

Special cases of the formation of gender and number of nouns and adjectives.
Numerals, ordinals, fractionals, multiples, distributives and collectives.
Special uses of the verb ser / estar.
Structures of the verb ser in circumlocution phrases.
Relative clauses with or without a preceding preposition.
Semantic and stylistic repercussions of word order: adjective – noun, verb – object, etc.
Specification of the prepositional pattern of verbs.
Pronoun considerations: cases with se.
Uses of the pronoun: ethical or interest dative.
Pronoun reduplications in the accusative and dative.
The Passive Voice: uses and development.
Specific uses of the infinitive, the gerund and the participle.
Specific uses of the conditional.
Specific uses of the future.
Other uses and varieties of the noun phrase.

Cultural content at the superior level:

The first half of the 20th century in Spain.
The Republic.
The Civil War.
The Dictatorship.
The Democracy.
The Autonomous Regions.
The linguistic diversity of the Spanish State.
Andalucía: stereotypes and reality.
The cultural legacy: Christians, Jews and Moslems.
Gastronomy: the Mediterranean diet.
The family structure.
Social and sexual stereotypes: machismo.
The present-day situation of Spanish women.
Present-day Spain: principal ideological, political and cultural tendencies:

the sixties.
the eighties.
the nineties.

Comprehensive analysis of the principal Spanish cultural artistic expressions:

bullfighting.
flamenco.

Religion and folklore. Analysis and artistic expressions.
Spain as a member of the European Union.
Introduction to Literature in the Spanish Language III.
Introduction to Spanish Art III.
Introduction to Spanish Cinema III.
The Media: newspapers, radio and television.
General characteristics of the Spanish economy.

Evaluation

Assessment is on a continuous basis and progress is also evaluated in the end-of-course exam.

The final exam is divided into two parts:

1. Written exam (2 hours)

1.1. Listening comprehension (20 minutes)
1.2 Reading comprehension (30 minutes)
1.3 Written expression (30 minutes)

1.4 Linguistic competency (40 minutes)

2. Oral exam (10 to 15 minutes if done with a partner or 5 to 10 minutes if done individually)

2.1 Oral expression

2.2 Oral interaction

Listening comprehension: 20% of final grade

Reading comprehension: 20% of final grade

Written expression: 20% of final grade

Linguistic competency: 20% of final grade

Oral expression: 20% of final grade

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