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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SPA 203 or SPA 210, or co-requisite with SPA 203 or 210 This course focuses on the development of students' written skills in Spanish. Grammar will be reviewed in order to provide the tools for more sophisticated written expression. Assignments will include journals, essays, autobiographical papers, and creative pieces. Students will also utilize the World Wide Web to correspond in written Spanish and to summarize and analyze current events and news found at numerous sites.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SPA 203 or 210, and SPA 211 (Priority given to majors) This course provides a solid understanding of Spanish spelling, stress patterns, and pronunciation, and demonstrates the relationship between these three aspects of the Spanish sound system. Students will improve their spelling, pronunciation, and listening skills by applying knowledge gained from written texts and by doing practical listening and pronunciation exercises.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SPA 203 or 210, and SPA 211 This course puts students' language skills to work by exposing students to everyday life of Spain and Latin America as it is portrayed in the media. Students will also develop an in-depth knowledge of the present cultural, economic, and political situation of the countries of the Spanish-speaking world.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SPA 203 or 210, and 211 This course concentrates on cultural, sociopolitical, and economic issues that affect Spain and Spanish America today. In addition, particular attention will be given to ethnicity, the role of women, and the forces shaping national identity in the Hispanic world. Readings will be taken from newspapers, journals, and essays. In conjunction with these readings, both videos and movies will be incorporated into the course.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Two 200-level Spanish courses or equivalent This course provides students with technical vocabulary, communicative skills, and cultural insights related to the Spanish-speaking business environment. Through essays, articles, research, discussions, case studies, role-plays, audio and videotapes, and the web, students will take an in-depth look at the corporate dynamics of Latin American and Spanish societies.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SPA 103. SPA 203 is suggested This course requires students to read and report on (orally and in writing) materials ranging from newspaper articles to publications in professional journals in Spanish, to interview native Spanish speakers and to transcribe these interviews, and to write a final paper in Spanish. Students will acquire the necessary medical vocabulary to successfully read and understand Spanish-language texts related to health and medicine, understand the cultural and linguistic aspects of treating a non-English-speaking Hispanic population, and learn to define common medical problems and discuss their causes, risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention in Spanish. SPA 103 is the prerequisite, but SPA 203 is strongly suggested.
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One 200-level course in Spanish or the equivalent or permission of instructor This course provides students with an opportunity to improve their Spanish by using it in a Spanish speaking workplace (whether in the United States or abroad in a Spanish speaking culture), in the context of a commercial enterprise, government agency, political office, nonprofit agency, or other work environment in which Spanish is spoken.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SPA 203 or SPA 210, and SPA 211 (Priority given to majors) This course offers selected readings from the literary traditions of Spain and Latin America. It also provides progressive development of reading and literary skills in Spanish. The class's seminar format emphasizes oral and written expression. Fundamental approaches to literary interpretation will also be introduced.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SPA 203 or SPA 210, and SPA 211 This course provides an examination of specialized topics at the intermediate-level in Spanish. May be repeated for credit if content differs.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Four 200-level SPA courses An in-depth study of the most challenging grammatical structures of the Spanish language. Following a strictly inductive approach, students will analyze and contrast a substantial number of Spanish sentences and paragraphs in order to figure out the grammatical rules which may explain the different structures used. Students will then provide further examples to illustrate the rules and practice with a wide variety of written exercises. Knowing the right answer will not be enough: students will be required to explain why it is the right answer.
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