Spanish

This course explores the key individual and group behaviors that enhance organizational performance and wellbeing.  It analyzes organizations’ management models with a systemic shared-value perspective and teaches responsible management, considering national and international regulatory frameworks for trade, fiscal, labor law, and human rights. 

The class provides opportunities to design proposals that generate shared value by understanding the concerns and expectations of diverse interest groups protecting society from the risks produced by organizational actions.  Furthermore, the class teaches how to communicate a future vision of an organization that reflects its social responsibility and purpose while developing competitive advantages through utilizing financial information in decision making to enhance organizational profitability and financial structures.

This course offers a study of financial theory including an evaluation of various financial products available in the financial market and their usefulness in the real economy. It also also focuses on managing portfolios of financial products and making financial decisions (investment and financing) within that functional area of a business.

This anthropology/history course taught in Spanish focuses on civilizations in America from the 18th to the 20th century. It focuses on the economic, technological, and political developments that led to the conquest of America by European civilizations, specifically from the point of view of the Spanish Empire.  

This course examines the relationship between society and the built environment, using a sociological perspective to analyze the city and urban phenomena. It discusses the main theoretical contributions and lines of research that have facilitated the interpretation and analysis of various social problems in the urban context.

The course gives students an opportunity to revise their survival skills and acquire more sophisticated ways of dealing with practical matters. This includes revision and consolidation of vocabulary, grammar, morphology, syntax, and phonetics. Students learn to converse reasonably fluently with native speakers and discuss personal, social, and current issues using appropriate structures. Cultural awareness is further developed. Language learning skills, including autonomous learning and how to approach authentic material, are enhanced. 

This intermediate Spanish course explores the characteristics of the Spanish language while providing opportunities to develop one's communicative skills in various social and academic contexts. It requires previous knowledge of the enunciation system in Spanish: the syntax of simple and compound sentences; form and function of the parts of a sentence; indicative present tense; preterit imperfect; simple preterite and preterite perfect; future periphrastic ,aspectual,and modal verb periphrases; imperative and present subjunctive. By the end of the course, students are expected to be able to interact adequately in everyday situations, becoming aware of the cultural and social aspects of the Spanish-speaking world (CEFR A2.1).

Spanish 3 (A.2.1 level), is an elementary level at the CLS. This course offers a combination of listening and speaking practice and introduces past tenses (pretérito perfecto compuesto, pretérito perfecto simple and pretérito imperfecto) via targeted reading and writing activities. The course continues to incorporate Spanish cultural elements through representative texts and audio-visual materials.

This intermediate level Spanish course focuses on the particularities of the Spanish language. By the end of the course, participants are expected to participate in communicative interactions with Spanish speakers in social and academic settings. It requires prior knowledge of the enunciation system in Spanish: the syntax of simple and compound sentences; the form and function of the parts of speech; simple and compound tenses of the indicative; simple tenses of the subjunctive; the aspectual and modal verb periphrases, and the imperative. The student will be able to interact appropriately in everyday, academic, and work situations in Spanish, being aware of the cultural and social realities of the Hispanic world (CEFR A2). 

The course covers the following topics:

• Interact efficiently in conventional communicative contexts by introducing himself, finding lodging, using transportation, making narrations and getting involved in simple transactions;
• Ask and give information about oneself and other people, personal interests, everyday activities, likes and hobbies;
• Describe and characterize people, things, places, etc.;
• Make hypotheses and predictions about the future;
• Understand simple reading passages;
• Write simple texts, both formal and personal;
• Become aware of the linguistic and cultural diversity in the world and be able to interact in intercultural contexts, and
• Have conscious control over the psychological and affective factors that influence the learning process and use learning processes strategically.

This course offers a study of European exploration and colonization, specifically that of Spain, Portugal, France, England, and the Netherlands. It focuses on the social, cultural, political, economic, and scientific impacts that these expansions had on the peoples and nations of Europe.

This course requires previous knowledge of the enunciation system in Spanish syntax in simple, compound, and complex sentences; form and function of the parts of a sentence; simple and compound tenses of indicative and subjunctive; formal and informal imperative; aspectual and modal verbal periphrases; nonpersonal forms of the verb, and regulating elements and practical and stylistic resources of language. 

Learning outcomes:

• Interact in a variety of situations of social, school, and professional life
• Express opinions and agreement or opposition to ideas expressed by other people
• Make structured presentations, narrations, and descriptions
• Understand the main idea and details in structured speeches on various topics in different contexts
• Fully understand all types of texts
• Write descriptive, narrative, and argumentative texts on topics familiar to the student as biographies, work-related, and academic.