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.

OBJECTIVES

Analysis of the communicative value of language.
The norm of the written variant of the Spanish language.
The written text and textual typologies in Spanish.
Development of the capacity to express oneself correctly in writing.
Stylistic variations.

PROGRAM

A) Spanish Language Applied to Translation:
1. The linguistic norm.
2. Language as an instrument of social communication.
3. Text and the science of the text. Written texts in Spanish.
B) Writing course
1. Style and written texts: non-literary style.
2. Problems with Normative Grammar I.
3. Problems with Punctuation and Orthography.
C) Practice
1. Pragmatic analysis of communication
2. Practice with cohesion and coherence in speech: mechanisms of informative representation.
3. Practices with cohesion and coherence in speech: mechanisms of informative repetition.
4. Practices with style: morphosyntactic errors.
5. Practices with style: lexical and phonetic reiterations.
6. Written expression: narrative texts.
7. Written expression: descriptive texts.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Austin, J. L., Cómo hacer cosas con palabras. Barcelona, Paidós, 1988.
Aznar, E. et. al., Coherencia textual y lectura. Barcelona, ICE Univ. de Barcelona, 1991.
Bustos, J. M., La construcción de textos en español. Salamanca, Univ. de Salamanca, 1997.
Dijk,T. A. van, La ciencia del texto. Barcelona, Paidós, 1983.
Núñez Ladevéze, L., Teoría y práctica de la construcción del texto. Barcelona, Ariel, 1993.
DICTIONARIES
Moliner, M.ª, Diccionario de uso del español. Madrid, Gredos, 1998.
R.A.E., Diccionario de la lengua española. Madrid, Espasa Calpe, 1992.
Casares, J., Diccionario ideológico de la lengua española. Barcelona, Gustavo Gili, 1987.
Seco, M., Diccionario de dudas y dificultades de la lengua española. Madrid, Espasa Calpe, 1998.
Seco, M. et al., Diccionario del español actual. Madrid, Aguilar, 1999.
OTHERS
ABC, Manual de Estilo de ABC. Barcelona, Ariel, 1993.
Aitchison, J., El cambio en las lenguas. Madrid, Ariel, 1993.
El País, Manual de Estilo. Madrid, Ediciones El País. 11.ª ed. 1996.
Cassany, D., La cocina de la escritura. Barcelona, Anagrama, 1995.
Gómez Torrego, L., Manual de español correcto (2 vols.). Madrid, Arco. 4ª ed., 1993-1994.
Gómez Torrego, L., El léxico en el español actual: uso y norma. Madrid, Arco, 1995.
Grijelmo, A., El estilo del periodista. Madrid,Taurus, 1997.
Montolío Durán, E.; Garachana Camarero, M. y Santiago, M., Manual de escritura académica. Barcelona, Ariel,
1999.
Reyes, G., Cómo escribir bien en español. Madrid, Arco, 1998.
Serafini, M.ª T., Cómo se escribe. Barcelona, Paidós, 1997.
Se trata sólo de una bibliografía de carácter muy general. Con cada tema, los estudiantes recibirán
una específica Véase también la bibliografía de la asignatura Lengua Española II, del 2º cuatrimestre.

REQUIRED READINGS

In the presentation of some of the topics, the corresponding required readings will be indicated, the content of which will be considered course material.

EVALUATION

Writing Notebook
Students will receive a weekly writing activity that should be turned in within a week from the time it was assigned. Outside of this time frame, no work will be accepted. There will be no more than 12 projects in total. Students do not have to submit up to 2 of the assigned projects. This will have a total maximum value of 20% of the final course grade.

Practices in class
Throughout the term, there will be a maximum of 5 classroom practices that will be evaluated. Students should understand that the completion of all of them is obligatory. They will have a total maximum value of 15% of the final course grade.

Final project
Starting from a text of contemporary literature, there will be a 4 page (approx 2,000 word) project. Handwritten projects will not be accepted. For the project, 4 alternative novels will be proposed. There will be absolute liberty in the completion of the project, but it is necessary that it should include a critical judgment of the work, totally understood or well referred to some formal, thematic, etc. aspect. It involves the writing of a personal text. If it includes facts taken from other sources, it is OBLIGATORY to cite and mark them typographically in the text. In any case, it may not exceed 10% of the project.

IMPORTANT: If it is detected that any of the works handed in have been copied in total or in part from an outside source, the class will be qualified as a suspension. It will have a total value of 10% in the final course grade.

FINAL EXAM
At the end of the course, there will be a written exam that must be passed and will have a minimum value of 55% of the final grade.