COURSE SYLLABUS: SUPERIOR SPANISH II

Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Partner Institution: Academia Buenos Aires/ESEADE (transcript issued by ESEADE - Instituto Universitario Escuela Superior de Economía y Administración de Empresa)

Course Title: Superior Spanish II

Sessions offered: year-round

Instructional in: Spanish

Classroom Contact Hours: 45*

College Credit (Semester Credit Hours): 3 credit hours

College Credit (Quarter Units): 4 quarter units

Pre-requisites: Superior Spanish I

Course Code: C1+, C2

*Classes are 20 contact hours per week. For students needing 3 credits during a 2 week program or 6 credits during a 4 week program they will complete an extra 5 or 10 hours respectively.

Program Overview

General Objectives:

• Understand and analyze a literary discourse. Learn and utilize rhetorical figures.
• Use argumentative strategies to show emphasis, show irony, re-formulate, argue and counter-argue.
• Utilize argumentative strategies to delineate the discourse.
• Manage the resource of “intertextualidad”.
• Ponder the use of registries and linguistic varieties.
• Narrate and describe from multiple points of view and registers.
• Show solvency in elections relative to the communicative situation.
• Add resources to present information and connect ideas.
• Learn systems of synonymy to improve writing of academic texts.
• Broaden one’s understanding of Argentine and Latin American literature.
• Argentine and Latin-American news. Differences and similarities in the presentation of news.

Linguistic Content:

• Strengthen understanding of the indicative and the subjunctive.
• Verbal correlations.
• Revision of real and unreal conditions with different connectors.
• Revision of concessive structures.
• Revision of argument structures.
• Revision and in-depth understanding of prepositional verbs.
• Verbal periphrases.
• The pronominal system. Accusatives, reflexives, reciprocals, etc.
• Use of the dative: interest, possession, direction, etc.
• Revision of the indirect discourse.
• Locuciones, frases hechas, modismos
• Orthography and accents.
• Nominalization.
• Ser and Estar.
• Pronominal system of Spanish. Distinct values of “se”: reflexive, reciprocal, quasi-reflexive, diacritical, inherent, stylistic (emphatic)
• Verbs with a prepositional regimen.
• Word composition. Derivation: prefixes and suffixes.
• Connectors in different levels: prepositions, conjunctive nexus, relatives, locutions.
• Compound sentences and complex sentences. Relative prepositions. Noun prepositions: indirect style.
• Temporal prepositions, locative, modular, causative, final, concessive, conditional, and consecutive.
• Modality. Expression in present and past. Modular verbs.
• Lexicon. Register of distinct semantic fields. Derivation. Polisemia. Cognates.
• Río de la Plata linguistic variation: characteristics, phonology, morph syntax and lexicon.

Semantic and Socio-Cultural Content:

• Argentines societal characters: the gaucho, the friend (el compadrito), the shirtless (el descamisado), etc. Origin and culture. Martín Fierro, de José Hernández. Jorge Luis Borges. Sarmiento. Actual urban tribes.
• The reconstruction of history: testimony and documentation.
• Fundamental events in Argentine history of the 20th Century. Peron and anti-Peron and the itinerary of the cadaver Eva Perón.
• Political literature in Argentina: Rodolfo Walsh and Tomás Eloy Martínez.
• Economy and social change in the 20th and 21st centuries in Argentina.
• The diaries and the roll of the news in contemporary society.
• The police report.
• Art, publicity, and bio-ethics.
• The scientific discourse (strategies of construction, relation with truth)
• Ecology: contamination, global warming, energy and bio-combustibles.

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