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

High Advanced

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of five semesters (or seven 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.

OBJECTIVES

The aim of this Course is to provide the student with high-level knowledge of the structure and syntactic rules of the Spanish language, keeping in mind its theoretical basis as well as the skills involving its use. Classes will include practical sessions of analysis and applied exercises.

SYLLABUS

1. The Utterance and the Grammatical Sentence.
1.1. The Sentence and its Parts.
Text-based Analysis.

2. The Simple Sentence and its Structure.
2.1 Subject and Predicate.
2.2 The Verb and its Complements.
Text-based Analysis.
2.3 Verb Forms and their Use.
2.4 The Verbs ser and estar.
2.5 Prepositions.
Exercises.

3. The Complex Sentence and its Structure.
3.1. Kinds of Coordination and Subordination.
3.2. A Study of Subordinate Clauses.
3.2.1. Nominal Clauses.
3.2.2. Clauses of Time.
3.2.3. Clauses of Purpose.
3.2.4. Clauses of Reason, Cause, and Circumstance.
3.2.5. Clauses of Condition.
3.2.6. Clauses of Result.
3.2.7. Clauses of Concession.
3.2.8. Relative Clauses.
3.2.9. Wh-Interrogative Clauses.
Exercises.
Text-based Analysis.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Alarcos, E.: Gramática de la lengua española. Espasa-Calpe, Madrid.
• García Santos, J.F. Sintaxis del español. Nivel de perfeccionamiento. Santillana, Universidad de Slamanca.
• Gili y Gaya, S. Curso superior de sintaxis española. Vox, Barcelona.

ASSESSMENT

A system of continuous assessment will be applied in the case of assignments carried out and active class participation, while there will also be two examinations: one mid-way through the Course and the other at the close of the semester.