High Advanced

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

FIRST SEMESTER [FALL]
ORTHOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY

1. Orthology or correct pronunciation: vowels, consonants, syllables; tone and intensity; phonetic groups and intonation figures; punctuation

2. Determinate and indeterminate articles: their different forms; special cases; presence of and/or absence of contrasting values and differences in meaning

3. Nouns: types and characteristics; mistakes in gender and number (plural or singular)

4. Adjectives: the types and their morphological characteristics, syntax, positioning, and meaning; agreement; levels of meaning; prepositional rules

5. Personal pronouns: morphology, syntax, phonetic alterations; leísmo, laísmo, and loísmo

6. Possessives and demonstratives; paradigm and structure; sentence and syntax functions; semantic characteristics and stylistic values

7. Numerals and indefinites; nature, concept, and function; basic uses and special cases

8. Interrogative and exclamatory pronouns: direct and indirect interrogative and exclamatory pronouns; construction; negation

9. Verbs: personal and impersonal forms; characteristics and types; mode of action and lexicon use; the indicative tense with the subjunctive; tenses; the imperative; irregular verbs; ser and estar

10. Adverbs: idioms; classification, syntax function, placement, and adverb categories; relative and interrogative adverbs

11. Prepositions: form, function, inherent and contextual meaning; grammatical oppositions; groups and prepositional phrases; dequísmo and quísmo

SECOND SEMESTER [WINTER]
SYNTAXES AND LEXICON

12. Simple sentences: independent sentences

13. Complex sentences: agreement; syntactical schemes

14. Complex sentences: subordination; noun-subordinate sentences; types of verbs; indirect and direct interrogatives

15. Adjective-subordinate sentences: relative pronouns and their uses; quesuísmo;
exclusive, obligatory, and alternate uses of their tenses

16. Appropriate adverb-subordinate sentences: types, nexes, modal alternatives; other structures of expresssions related to time, mood, and place

17. Inappropriate adverb-subordinate sentences: types, nexes, modal alternatives; other structures of expressions related to concession, condition, cause, end, comparison, consequence, and logical deduction; continuative and illative expressions

18. Lexical creation Castillian Spanish; derivation: prefixed and suffixed; composition

19. Literary and journalistic language

20. Colloquial language

21. Varieties of Spanish; dialects in Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries

22. Common acronyms and abbreviations in Spanish; recognition and use