Spring / Fall Course Content This course is intended primarily
for students with some background in grammar and syntax. The
course presents the student with a variety of practical
situations to improve communication in Spanish. Oral
presentations about cultural and social Spain, current readings,
and quotations by famous people, debate, and acquisition of new
vocabulary and expressions. The final grade will primarily be
assessed on the quality of class participation and weekly class
work. This course is designed to introduce the student to the
study of linguistic analysis applied to Spanish. The course
provides an overview of main linguistics areas such as
phonology, word formation, syntax and semantics. Students will
also become familiar with related aspects of the study of
linguistics: diachronic approach to language and issues in
sociolinguistics. The mail goal of this course is to improve
students' pronunciation in Spanish through general concepts of
Spanish phonetics; oral practice of articulation of sou