Admission requirements
Spanish 3 or equivalent recommended (contact tutor for guidance).
Description
This language course builds on skills acquired in Spanish 3 and aims to develop students’ oral and written communication skills to an advanced level, with an emphasis on academic speech and writing skills. In addition, the class seeks to develop awareness of dialect, register, and stylistic differences in Spanish while studying and debating academic and journalistic articles related to history/public policy, literature/cultural analysis, and linguistics. This is an interactive course in which a variety of authentic materials are used and students play an active role in weekly discussions.
Course objectives
When completing this course the students will be able to:
read articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems in which the writers adopt particular attitudes or viewpoints
understand specialized articles and technical instructions related to their field of study
express themselves in clear, well structured texts, expressing points of view at some length
write about complex and/or academic subjects in an essay or a report underlying the most salient issues
write an academic paper following an expository or an argumentative structure
understand extended speech and lectures and follow even complex lines of argument provided the topic is reasonably familiar
use language flexibly and effectively for social and professional purposes
take an active part in discussions of familiar matters and debates of academic related topics accounting for and sustaining their views with reasonable precision
present clear, detailed descriptions and/or argumentations of complex and/or academic subjects, integrating sub-themes, developing particular points and rounding off with an appropriate conclusion
Timetable
Mode of instruction
lectures
seminars
oral presentations
Course Load
A brief calculation of the course load, broken down by:
Total course load for the course for a course of 10 EC is 280 hours.
Amount of lectures: 78 hours (6 hours x 13 weeks)
Practical work 196 hours
Assessment 4 hours
Tutoring 2 hours/week
Assessment method
Assessment
Final written paper: 30%
Final Oral presentation: 30%
Weekly written contributions: 20%
Weekly oral presentations: 20%
The final mark for this course is established by determining the weighted average.
Weighing
Final written paper: 30%
Final Oral presentation: 30%
Weekly written contributions: 20%
Weekly oral presentations: 20%
The final mark for this course is established by determining the weighted average.
Resit
For all components (project rewriting and oral presentation): 100% of final mark.
Exam review
The date of exam review will be announced in Blackboard.
How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will have to be organized.
Blackboard
Blackboard will be used for:
providing study materials
announcements
Final papers: Turnitin
Reading list
A dossier with reading and discussing material will be provided via Blackboard.
Suggested literature:
Muñoz-Basols, J. et al., (2012) Developing Writing Skills in Spanish. Routledge: Oxford
Registration
Enrolment through uSis is mandatory.
General information about uSis is available in Engels and Nederlands
Registration Studeren à la carte and Contractonderwijs
Not applicable
Contact
For questions about the content of the course, you can contact the teacher:
Administrations Office: van Wijkplaats
Remarks
Minimum 80% attendance required. No make-up assignments will be provided for missed classes or homework. Missed presentations will result in Insufficient.