Notes regarding credits...

This course consists of 40 hours of instruction. However, students may earn 45 hours by attending supplemental sessions and completing additional coursework. Please check with your home university to find out whether you need 40 or 45 hours to earn course equivalents.

Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

Advanced

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

1. Introduction
The fundamental objective of this class is that students are prepared for specialized knowledge of Spanish grammar. This class be functional and help students develop communicative skills through class activities.
2. Contents
1. Present tense : morphology and uses (in relation to other tenses).
2. Past tenses: preterite, present perfect, imperfect, and the past perfect.
3. Future tense: morphology and uses (in relation to present and future.)
4. Conditional: morphology and uses (in relation to past, present, and future).
5. Tenses of the subjunctive: morphology, uses (affirming, denying, expressing reactions, expressing one's will, and defining and identifying unknown situations.
6. The imperative mood : morphology, syntax (combinations with pronouns), and uses (giving orders, instructions, and advice)
7. Infinitive : morphology and syntax.
8. Gerunds: morphology.
9. Verbal periphrasis: construction and syntax.
10. Articles: morphology, definite and indefinite, and special cases (names of countries…).
11. Possessives: morphology, syntax, and different uses for stressed and unstressed forms.
12. Demonstratives: morphology and uses (contrast between: ESTE, ESE, and AQUEL, demonstrative pronouns as nouns and adjectives)
13. Personal pronouns: morphology, syntax, and uses (significance of presence or absence of the subject pronoun)
14. Problematic aspects of Spanish : Ser/Estar, Por/Para, uses of the impersonal se, markers of time (desde + point in time, hace, + period of time, etc).

3. Evaluation
There will be a mid-term and final exam as well as pop-quizzes. There will be oral and written sections of the midterm and final exam.

4. Bibliography
MATTE BON, F., Gramática Comunicativa del Español (Tomo I: De a la idea; Tomo II De la idea a la lengua), Madrid, Difusión, 1992.