Notes regarding credits...

This course consists of 40 hours of instruction. However, students may earn 45 hours by attending supplemental sessions and completing additional coursework. Please check with your home university to find out whether you need 40 or 45 hours to earn course equivalents.

Superior

Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of 2 upper-division college-level Spanish courses at their home university in the U.S.

1. Introduction
The content of this course addresses the principal difficulties for advanced-level students of Spanish. The course content has a pragmatic approach and studies the most recent linguistic solutions in Spanish. Students who take this course must have sufficient knowledge of grammar, reading, writing, and speaking skills.
2. Contents
1. Indicative mood tenses: forms, tenses, and exercises.
2. Use of the subjunctive: independent and dependent clauses and subjunctive tenses.
3. Uses of SER and ESTAR.
4. Uses of demonstratives: spatial, temporal, and other uses.
5. Uses of verbal periphrasis: with infinitives, gerunds, and participles.
6. Use of impersonal and passive constructions.
7. Uses of pronominal constructions: reflexive se, reciprocal se, transitive and intransitive verbs, and action verbs.
8. Indefinite articles, adjectives, and pronouns: forms of indefinite, cardinal and ordinal numbers.
9. Subordinate clauses : uses of Que, como, cuanto, donde and si.
10. Uses of relative pronouns: (El) que. Quien. El cual. Cuyo.
11. Conversational structures: Key words, intonation for intent, emphasis, and pondering, and transitional words.
12. Prepositions: temporal, idiomatic, and special uses.

3. Evaluation
The final grade will be a combination of 1) attendance, 2) class participation, 3)exams (which will be similar to exercises given in class).

Bibliography
1. Manuals:
REAL ACADEMIA ESPA�"OLA. Esbozo de una nueva gramática de la lengua española, Madrid Espasa-Calpe, varies ediciones.
ALCINA, J. y BLECUA, J. M., Gramática española, Barcelona, Ariel, varies ediciones.
SECO, M., Gramática esencial del español. Introducc¿ón al estudio de la len-gua, Madrid, Aguilar, 1972.
MATTE BON, F., Gramática comunicativa del español, Madrid,Difusión, 1992.
2.Dictionaries:
SECO, M., Diccionario de dudas y dificultades de la lengua española, Madrid, Espasa-Calpe, 1989.
MOLINER, M., Diccionario de uso del español, Madrid, Gredos, varias ediciones.
VV.AA.,Diccionario de uso del español actual, Madrid, SM, 1996.
3. Workbooks:
FENTE, R., Curso intensivo de español. Ejercicios prácticos, Madrid, Edi-6, 1983.
KUNDERT,H.,MARTíNM A., Ejerciciosde español, Madrid, Alhambra, 1990.
4.Grammar texts:
BORREGO, J. y otros,, El subjuntivo. Valores y usos, Madrid, SGEL, 1985.
GELABERT, Ma. J. y otros., Repertorio defunciones comunicativas del español, Madrid, SGEL, 1988.
LUQUE DURÁN, J. DE D., Las preposiciones, Madrid, SGEL, l 973.
MOLINA REDONDO, J.A. Usos de "se". Cuestiones sintácticas y léxicas, Madrid, SGEL, varias ediciones (última, 1994).
MOLINA REDONDO, J.A. y ORTEGA OLIVARES, G., Usos de ser y estar, Madrid, SGEL, 1987.