SPAN302-18S2 (C) Semester Two 2018

Advanced Spanish B

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 16 July 2018
End Date: Sunday, 18 November 2018
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 29 July 2018
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 14 October 2018

Description

This course is a continuation of SPAN301. Students' linguistic skills will be improved and reinforced through extended readings, written assignments and aural/oral activities in class. Grammar will be taught in a cultural content-based context. By the end of this course, students will have a broader knowledge of Hispanic cultures; students will be able to communicate more effectively (orally and in writing) with native and other competent speakers.

This course is a continuation of Span301 that requires prior knowledge of Spanish. Like the latter course, the main objective of Span302 is to give students advanced proficiency in Spanish across the four skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing). This course also consists of three main components:  the practice of the more complex aspects of Spanish grammar, the development of effective writing skills, and the improvement of speaking fluidity. Grammar is taught in a content-based approach and students’ linguistic skills will be improved and reinforced through extended reading and writing assignments. In-class activities will include communicative activities in applying grammar to writing and speaking skills.

Learning Outcomes

  • By the end of the course students will have -

  • Advanced knowledge of complex grammatical structures, parts of speech, and formal
           styles of writing.
  • Ability to employ a range of idiomatic expressions.
  • Ability to communicate clearly, accurately, and effectively on a variety of topics.
  • Ability to comprehend more advanced level discussions on a range of issues.
  • Ability to read and comprehend non-specialised Spanish texts.
  • Ability to read and comprehend some advanced narrative, literary, and academic style
           Spanish texts.
  • Ability to comprehend complex Spanish texts with the help of a dictionary and similar  
           resources.
  • Ability to write essays on a variety of topics that require the use of a variety of verb tenses
           and idiomatic expressions
    • University Graduate Attributes

      This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

      Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

      Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Prerequisites

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Sergio Esteban Redondo

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Essays (3) 15%
Quizzes (2) 20%
Oral test (1) 15%
Written tests (2) 30%
Workbook (Units 1-6) 10%
Participation 10%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Corpas, J., Garmendia, A., Sánchez, N., & Soriano, C; AULA Internacional 5 – Curso de español Nueva Edición (B2.2) ; Difusión, 2014.

The book can be ordered online from the Language Fuel NZ Resource Room. A special discount package is offered to University of Canterbury students.

Recommended:
A good Spanish-English dictionary.

Course links

Library portal
LEARN The full Course Outline is available on LEARN (only for students enrolled in this course).

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,493.00

International fee $6,075.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

All SPAN302 Occurrences

  • SPAN302-18S2 (C) Semester Two 2018