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

Superior

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of 2 upper-division college-level Spanish courses. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

This course will focus on the following topics:
1. Ser and Estar
-Attributive use
-Non-attributive use
-Auxiliary
-Idioms with ser and estar
2. Indicative Mood
-Use of the verbal tenses: contrasts, alternation
-General scheme of the probable (or approximate)/ exact (or certain) in the indicative.
3. Subjunctive Mood I
-Temporal forms of the subjunctive
-Verbs that take the subjunctive: negation and subjunctive
-Independent clauses: Subjunctive /Indicative mood
4. Subjunctive Mood II
-Subordinate nouns
5. Subjunctive Mood III
-Adjectival-relative subordinates
6. Subjunctive Mood IV: adverbial subordinates II
-Temporal adverbial subordinates
-Ending adverbial subordinates
7. Subjunctive V: adverbial subordinates II
-Causal adverbial subordinates
-Consecutive adverbial subordinates
-Comparative adverbial subordinates
8. Subjunctive VI: adverbial subordinates III
-“Subordinadas adverbials concesivas”
-Conditional adverbial subordinates
9. Uses of “Se” and reflexive verbs
-Passive form of “se”
-Basic uses of “se”
-Impersonal construction of “se”
10. Prepositions
-Preposition uses
-Prepositions and nominalization
-Adjectives with prepositional rules