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Intensive Upper Intermediate Spanish
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - Direct Enroll Program
Barcelona, Spain
Dates: early Sep 2027 - mid Dec 2027
Intensive Upper Intermediate 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 300
Recommended Semester Credits: 6
Contact Hours: 90
DESCRIPTION
On completing this course, student should be able to:
- Understand without any difficulty any conversation between native speakers on non- specialist themes, in standard register.
- Follow an oral presentation in an academic environment on subject included in their studies (lectures, conferences, presentation and contributions by colleagues in the classroom), write and summarise information from notes taken during the class.
- Understand the overall meaning and extract specific information for different types of oral and written texts.
- Recognise the basic differences in formal and colloquial registers.
- Recognise attitudes and moods in a speaker from intonation, gestures, rhythm, etc.
- Understand genuine literary texts by contemporary authors, both Spanish and Latin American, with some lack of vocabulary.
- Extract the main information from texts related to their professional, studies or any other kind of informative document.
- Take part in conversations, discussions, debates, etc. on general subject matters, adjusting the discourse to the required register, formal or informal, with an appropriate control of the Spanish language and recognising idiomatic expressions appropriate to the level.
- Speak about a subject with clarity and coherence for a brief period of time, suing the appropriate resources for discourse.
- Write with correct spelling and talk with clarity and coherence about facts (past, present and future) related to their own situation.
- Write texts (personal letters, formal letters, etc.), adapting the model and using the appropriate register, vocabulary and style for each type of text.
- Write a report or essay about a specific subject related to their professional field or studies using appropriate vocabulary, register and style.
- Reproduce orally and in writing information, opinions and stories from other people.
- Use monolingual dictionaries and other necessary reference works to work independently in the process of learning.
- Understand without any difficulty any conversation between native speakers on non- specialist themes, in standard register.
- Follow an oral presentation in an academic environment on subject included in their studies (lectures, conferences, presentation and contributions by colleagues in the classroom), write and summarise information from notes taken during the class.
- Understand the overall meaning and extract specific information for different types of oral and written texts.
- Recognise the basic differences in formal and colloquial registers.
- Recognise attitudes and moods in a speaker from intonation, gestures, rhythm, etc.
- Understand genuine literary texts by contemporary authors, both Spanish and Latin American, with some lack of vocabulary.
- Extract the main information from texts related to their professional, studies or any other kind of informative document.
- Take part in conversations, discussions, debates, etc. on general subject matters, adjusting the discourse to the required register, formal or informal, with an appropriate control of the Spanish language and recognising idiomatic expressions appropriate to the level.
- Speak about a subject with clarity and coherence for a brief period of time, suing the appropriate resources for discourse.
- Write with correct spelling and talk with clarity and coherence about facts (past, present and future) related to their own situation.
- Write texts (personal letters, formal letters, etc.), adapting the model and using the appropriate register, vocabulary and style for each type of text.
- Write a report or essay about a specific subject related to their professional field or studies using appropriate vocabulary, register and style.
- Reproduce orally and in writing information, opinions and stories from other people.
- Use monolingual dictionaries and other necessary reference works to work independently in the process of learning.