Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

Intermediate

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of two semesters (or three quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

Advanced

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

BOTH FALL AND WINTER STUDENTS WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING COURSE DESCRIPTION

Objective

To better reading ability of the students through comprehensive study of texts and critcism of 10 works by Spanish authors. This class will bring the students close to some of the authors that are most representative of the contemporary Spanish narrative. Starting from the interactive reading of texts, the instructor will present the students with the strategies that permit them to construct the most complete significance possible of the reading. The process will include, for each story, the following phases: the presentation of a short biographical sketch of the author, some activities of the anticipation of the contents of the text, the reading of the story, and finally, activities of further study of said reading.

Program

Reading as a construction of significance; vocabulary
Startegies of the deduction of significance; the contexts
The use of the dictionary: which, when, how
Lexical cohesion
Sentences and sequences of sentences
Grammatical cohesion
Thematic progression
The text
Textual cohesion
Textual coherence
The Narrative text: the point of view, the narrative voices, temporalities