Session	Dates	Price
August Session 2008 - Intensive Language	July 30 - August 30, 2008	$3,495
Fall Semester, Early Start 2008 - Hispanic Studies	August 29 - December 18, 2008	$9,995

Full Description

GENERAL AIM
To understand and express oneself correctly and fluently in situations familiar to the learner, and to communicate adequately in situations unfamiliar to the learner by means of complex linguistic structures.

SPECIFIC AIMS
Listening comprehension: To understand the general context and the details of conversations between several native speakers and oral texts spoken at normal speed, even when the subjects are unfamiliar to the learner.

Oral Production: To intervene in a pragmatically adequate way in conversations on any topic, contributing personal opinions and attitudes effectively, with fluency and accuracy.

Reading comprehension: To understand the details and communicative aims of different types of texts on topics which are unfamiliar to the learner. However, these texts will not be of a specialised nature.

Writing skills: To write pragmatically adequate texts of different types which do not only refer to daily needs but also to the personal and professional interests of the learner contributing information and expressing his or her personal opinions and attitudes in an effective way, with fluency and accuracy.

LIST OF CONTENTS

1. Communicative content:
• Exchange and evaluate personal information.
• Exchange and evaluate general information.
• Assess the attitude of others.
• Express acceptance, rejection and evasion with differing degrees of enthusiasm.
• Persuade and convince.
• Justify and give excuses.
• Maintain diverse types of interpersonal relationships.
• Express accurately one’s point of view about an event.
• Comment in detail the intentions another person has stated.
• Give arguments with differing degrees of implication on a topic of conversation.
• Formulate and refute statements of certainty, necessity and obligation.
• Ask for and give explanations about cause, consequence, purpose and manner.
• Express what is considered possible or probable.
• Refuse and accept an expression of probability.
• Give conditions for the fulfilment of an action.
• Advise, suggest and recommend.
• Express the wish to do something.
• Express surprise.
• Express compassion.
• Express resignation.
• Express satisfaction.
• Express agreement and disagreement.
• Express indignation.
• Express indifference.
• Understand and give information in linguistic registers: formal, informal, familiar and vernacular.
• Understand the diverse social-linguistic and dialect varieties .
• Understand and reproduce the intention of intonation in enunciation.

2. Grammatical content:

1. Other uses and varieties of conditional phrases.
2. Other uses and varieties of clause of concession.
3. Other uses and varieties of temporal clauses.
4. Other uses and varieties of clauses of purpose.
5. Other uses and varieties of modal phrases.
6. Other uses and varieties of verb periphrasis.
7. Prepositional patterns of verbs.
8. Other uses of problematic prepositions.
9. Set phrases and idiomatic expressions.
10. Refrains and proverbs.
11. Lexical adaptation at different social-linguistic levels.
12. Varied conversational resources.
13. Elements of textual cohesion.
14. Organisation of information in texts of specific content.
15. Features of accent: significant relevance of intonation.

3. Cultural content of the superior level:
- The first half of the 20th century in Spain.
   - The Republic.
   - The Civil War.
   - The Dictatorship.
   - The Democracy.
   - The Autonomous Regions.
   - The linguistic diversity of the Spanish State.
- Andalucía: stereotypes and reality.
- The cultural legacy: Christians, Jews and Moslems.
- Gastronomy: the Mediterranean diet.
- The family structure.
- Social and sexual stereotypes: machismo.
- The present-day situation of Spanish women.
- Present-day Spain: principal ideological, political and cultural tendencies:
- the sixties.
- the eighties.
- the nineties.
- Comprehensive analysis of the principal Spanish cultural artistic expressions:
   - bullfighting.
   - flamenco.
- Religion and folklore. Analysis and artistic expressions.
- Spain as a member of the European Union.
- Introduction to Literature in the Spanish Language III.
- Introduction to Spanish Art III.
- Introduction to Spanish Cinema III.
- The Media: newspapers, radio and television.
- General characteristics of the Spanish economy.