97508 Spanish Language and Culture 8

This subject aims to provide students, who have a strong command of the Spanish language, with a broad range of social and political situations in order to express their needs, ideas and arguments in Castilian and Latin American Spanish. Students learn further how to communicate in Spanish within a wide range of professional and academic situations at formal and informal levels in oral and written forms. The four language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing, either individually or in combination, are further developed using authentic materials covering a rich variety of situations. A sophisticated range of authentic reading material, including films, documentaries, testimonies and music with lyrics, with regional and social variants, and specific registers, such as the Caribbean, the Andean countries, Latino-USA and Spain, are used for learning and students engage in impromptu debates of specific topics and write critical essays of 2500 words.

Assessment: This subject has a combination of continuous assessment and final examinations for speaking, listening, reading and writing. Further details are available in the subject outline distributed in class during the first week of teaching.

Texts and references

A full range of texts, audio and video media are used in this subject. Further details are available in the subject outline distributed in class during the first week of teaching.

Typical availability

Spring semester, City campus