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Guanajuato

Courses with Mexican Students - Year 2 2008/09
Spanish Grammar I

64
Language Level: Advanced
Spanish Grammar I
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Course taken with: Primarily Local Students
University of Guanajuato (Guanajuato, México)

Course Description

Area of Study

Spanish Language

Hours & Credits

64

Hours of Instruction

4

Semester Credit Units

6

Quarter Credit Units

Prerequisites and Language Level

Advanced
Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish at their home university in the U.S.

Overview

Methodology :
The methodology applied at the Language Center by the Department of Spanish includes various techniques :
Communicative (emphasizing interaction in communication), Situational (students acquire the necessary tools to react comfortably to daily cirmunstances), Personalized instruction,Independent learning (students interact directly with the language and learn at their own pace, organizing and applying concepts)The following topics will be reviewed:

Present, imperfect and future indicative mood, regular and irregular verbs
Conditional tense and uses
Imperatives and commands, affirmative and negative
Reflexive verbs
Reciprocal verbs
Ser/Estar
Prepositions
Personal, possessive, demonstrative and relative pronouns
Possessive, comparative and diminuitive adjectives
Direct and indirect objects
Adverbs and uses
Gerunds and uses
Infinitives and uses
Definite and indefinite articles
"Si" as a conditional
Uses of verbs
Present subjunctive
The participle, regular and irregular verbs
Indicative present perfect and uses
Uses of the impersonal "se"
Passive voice with "ser", more participles and reflexives
Uses of relative pronouns: el que, la cual, los que, las que and lo que
Indicative past perfect and uses
Indicative future perfect and uses
Use of the present subjunctive in noun, adverb and adjective clauses