Spanish

This course is designed for Spanish students who communicate with a certain level of autonomy in simple, especially in social contexts. The course aims for students to consolidate their oral and written communication skills at a social level and that, at the same time, they begin to develop comprehension skills and written production that allows them to function in academic and professional contexts.

This course aims to develop the efficient and creative use of the body and voice, through a process of disinhibition, imagination, improvisation and dramatization, allowing the student to improve their body awareness and access through artistic language diverse possibilities of creative expression, which give rise to a common language and which become a sample of collective expression, addressing the topics of interest to the participants.

This course is for students at advanced levels C1+ (with at least two semesters completed in C1) and C2. It focuses on improving linguistic tools for oral expression. The course promotes, consolidates, and perfects oral practice in Spanish based on specific cases and situations. To this end, a series of activities are carried out to develop this communicative competence. It enhances fluency, grammatical and lexical correctness, semantic precision, and pronunciation, all while taking into account the needs and expectations of the students. The basics of discourse analysis are used and the uses and strategies of debate are promoted. Each oral expression process is adapted to the context of speech (registers and context).

This course offers a study of Spanish language at the A2 level. Topics may include: grammar, reading and writing, listening and speaking, vocabulary development, written composition.

This course offers a study of Spanish language at the B2 level. Topics may include: grammar, reading and writing, listening and speaking, vocabulary development, written composition.

In this course, students detect and enhance the creative resources that contribute to the writing process, and acquire from the reading and writing practice, the basic methodological skills of written narration, from the short story to dramatic writing. Students link the abstract world, ideas and concepts, with concrete reality.

This course is designed for complete beginners with no prior knowledge of Spanish. It introduces the fundamentals of speaking, listening, reading, and writing, while also exploring a key cultural topic in its linguistic context.

This course provide an overview of the key aspects and trends of contemporary Spanish and Latin American literature, placing particular attention on areas of influence and contact between the two traditions. Topics covered include: the literary and cultural dialogue between Spain and Latin America; Spanish and Latin American Modernism vs. the Generation of '98; the poetic vanguards on both sides of the Atlantic; realism, magic and fantasy; Spanish postwar literature; women in the Hispanic world; transcendence, fragmentation, and transatlantic dialogue in the 20th century; literary trends in postmodern Spain and Latin America.

This course explores the history and evolution of the Spanish language. It discusses dialect and speech, where Spanish is spoken, semantics and pragmatics, and changes in the language.