Spanish

This abbreviated language course provides students without prior course work, or those who have basic knowledge of the language, with an introduction to Spanish language skills; students with prior language experience are provided the opportunity to improve upon their oral, written, and reading comprehension skills. All students begin with an intensive week covering basic forms of grammar and vocabulary specific to topics discussed in the program.

This course is the follow-up to Foundation Spanish Language 1 at UCL. Students who have successfully completed Foundation Spanish Language 1 or have an equivalent knowledge (e.g. GCSE or Standard Grade) in the language are ideally suited for this course.

This online course examines the Spanish language and the Hispanic world through a virtual journey. It covers daily expressions in Spanish.

This course presents the rules of usage of the Spanish language and specific characteristics of academic writing. It develops skills for analyzing texts, academic writing, production of argumentative essays, utilizing research methods and tools, and critical reflection on normative aspects of the Spanish language.

This course examines syntax and the grammatical and discursive structures of Spanish. Topics include: sentence syntax; noun clauses; relative clauses; adverbial clauses; from sentence syntax to discursive syntax; intersentential syntax-- coordination and adverbial sentences; discursive syntax.

This course is designed for students at the B1.1 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The course develops oral skills, comprehension, and expression. The course has three objectives and employs a variety of assignments to meet these objectives. The first is to develop the students' capacity to respond to a range of daily interactions. The next objective is to increase the students' ability to extract and express key points from oral and written materials about Spain's autonomous regions. The final objective of the course is to strengthen the students' capacity to participate in debates on subjects of personal interest.

This five-week advanced summer course is intended for students who have completed the intermediate series of Spanish language at the university level and stresses productive and receptive conversation and improvement of linguistic and communicative skills. The class aims to improve the development of comprehension and discourse production at a level near that of an educated native speaker. The course includes the practice of listening comprehension strategies in order to facilitate access to different types of discourse at varying levels of difficulty.