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Intensive Superior Spanish
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - Direct Enroll Program
Barcelona, Spain
Dates: early Sep 2027 - mid Dec 2027
Intensive Superior Spanish
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Primary Subject Area: Spanish Language & Literature
Instruction in: Spanish
Course Code: SA1001S
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 400
Recommended Semester Credits: 6
Contact Hours: 90
DESCRIPTION
On completing this course, student should be able to:
Speaking
- Use linguistic and non-linguistic resources that allow them to express themselves fluently and naturally.
- Understand a large part of the connotative weighting of idioms, sayings and colloquial expression even though they may need to confirm the detailed meanings.
- Use language for social ends (emotional use).
- Express opinions and use resources to take part in and maintain a conversation.
- Make clear and well-structured formal presentations in academic and professional situations.
- Tackle oral texts of all kinds within their academic, social or professional field.
- Follow an extensive discourse.
- Follow long, complex conversations between third parties with ease.
- Extract information from warnings or public discourse.
- Use paraphrase and other mechanisms to substitute a lack of vocabulary and structures without completely interrupting the fluency of the discourse.
- Understand sufficiently well to follow long, complex discourses.
- Be able to follow films that use a large number of colloquial expressions and slang.
- Understand and react to elements of non-verbal communication in Spanish culture.
- Follow the rhythm of a debate with ease and argue their position with formality and conviction.
- Chose an appropriate way of expressing themselves clearly without having to limit what they want to say.
- Have a wide range of resources available to ensure cohesive and coherent discourse.
Writing
- Produce written texts expressing opinions, narrative and analysis in a clear, well- structured and detailed manner showing correct use of the mechanisms of organisation, cohesion and articulation of the text.
- Understand extensive texts in detail within their area of speciality, even though they may need to re-read the more difficult sections.
- Understand all correspondence even though they may need to make occasional use of a dictionary.
- Search quickly to find relevant information in extensive texts.
- Understand short technical instructions in detail.
- Transmit information with ease and great precision using notes and summaries.
- Write clear and well-structured reports Inprofessional and academic fields.
- Tackle written texts of all kinds in their academic, social or professional field.
- Express themselves without any grave errors of vocabulary.
- Write texts with consistent paragraphing and punctuation.
- Write detailed descriptions and narrations including several topics.
- Be able to give opinions and make statements with degrees of certainty/uncertainty, probability, etc.
Speaking-writing activities
- Take careful notes from an original that can be used by other people.
- Synthesise information from a formal exhibitive oral or written texts.
- Draw up minutes or reports based on spoken information.
Speaking
- Use linguistic and non-linguistic resources that allow them to express themselves fluently and naturally.
- Understand a large part of the connotative weighting of idioms, sayings and colloquial expression even though they may need to confirm the detailed meanings.
- Use language for social ends (emotional use).
- Express opinions and use resources to take part in and maintain a conversation.
- Make clear and well-structured formal presentations in academic and professional situations.
- Tackle oral texts of all kinds within their academic, social or professional field.
- Follow an extensive discourse.
- Follow long, complex conversations between third parties with ease.
- Extract information from warnings or public discourse.
- Use paraphrase and other mechanisms to substitute a lack of vocabulary and structures without completely interrupting the fluency of the discourse.
- Understand sufficiently well to follow long, complex discourses.
- Be able to follow films that use a large number of colloquial expressions and slang.
- Understand and react to elements of non-verbal communication in Spanish culture.
- Follow the rhythm of a debate with ease and argue their position with formality and conviction.
- Chose an appropriate way of expressing themselves clearly without having to limit what they want to say.
- Have a wide range of resources available to ensure cohesive and coherent discourse.
Writing
- Produce written texts expressing opinions, narrative and analysis in a clear, well- structured and detailed manner showing correct use of the mechanisms of organisation, cohesion and articulation of the text.
- Understand extensive texts in detail within their area of speciality, even though they may need to re-read the more difficult sections.
- Understand all correspondence even though they may need to make occasional use of a dictionary.
- Search quickly to find relevant information in extensive texts.
- Understand short technical instructions in detail.
- Transmit information with ease and great precision using notes and summaries.
- Write clear and well-structured reports Inprofessional and academic fields.
- Tackle written texts of all kinds in their academic, social or professional field.
- Express themselves without any grave errors of vocabulary.
- Write texts with consistent paragraphing and punctuation.
- Write detailed descriptions and narrations including several topics.
- Be able to give opinions and make statements with degrees of certainty/uncertainty, probability, etc.
Speaking-writing activities
- Take careful notes from an original that can be used by other people.
- Synthesise information from a formal exhibitive oral or written texts.
- Draw up minutes or reports based on spoken information.