Attendance and punctuality are mandatory. Any legitimate reason for not attending class or a field work activity (medical emergency, etc.) must be referred directly to the Academic office (not to the instructor) with proper documentation. Students missing class due to medical reasons need to get a doctor‟s note from Emergencias Médicas to be handed-in at the Academic Affairs office. Without that note, the absence cannot be excused. Being late to class will mean half of an absence. Coming to class more than 15 minutes late will mean one absence. Courses taught one day per week allow a maximum of 1½ absences. Courses taught two days per week allow a maximum of 2½ absences. Courses taught three days per week allow a maximum of 3½ absences. Every unexcused absence after the maximum allowance will lower half a point of the student‟s final grade (for instance, from “A” to “A-”, from “A-” to “B+” and so on). Students who are at risk of failing to meet these attendance requirements will be notified and summoned by the Academic Dean.
Method of presentation:
The first class day each week, except weeks 5 and 12 (project weeks) and weeks 7 and 14 (exam weeks), students will be expected to hand in a written text with their reflections, opinions and descriptions related to cultural, academic or touristic aspects, about what they did during the weekend (a trip, a ride around the city, a visit to a museum, a party, etc.). In these reports, students should apply an intercultural point of view, and analyze similarities and contrasts between his or her own culture and this new culture they are getting to know, considering “ culture” in the broad sense, which the bibliography (Canale and Swain 1986, Sanz 1999, Miquel 2003) summarizes as “ The three Ps” from the most evident and superficial (products, practices) to the most implicit (perspectives). The teacher of each course will determine the complexity of each writing assignment according to the Spanish level of the course. The best writings will be selected and exhibited on a board. At the end of the semester, the students whose reports were selected will receive a certificate signed by the authorities of IES Abroad Buenos Aires.
Required work and form of assessment:
Homework Assignments
The students will have to spend 5 or 6 hours a week doing homework. We strongly recommend not letting undone homework assignments pile up until the day before they are due, but to devote an hour every day to it. The results are always much better this way. The purpose of homework tasks is that students study, search information, and complete exercises, in order to reanalyze the topics taught in class. Homework will always include one writing assignment per week. Students that turn in assignments late will obtain a lower grade.
Research Projects (they must be presented orally, with visual support) Project 1 (individual or in groups of 2 or 3 students) DUE: Week 5
It consists of searching for information on Buenos Aires and/or Argentina and sharing it with the class, using the communication tools reviewed and learned in class. The kind of research will depend on the interest of the students, so the subject will be chosen by each of them. It may be about museums, places for shopping or eating, parks and squares, bars, plastic arts, monuments, habits, neighborhoods, poets, soccer (fútbol).
Also take into account that the visits with IES Abroad to sport events, -fútbol and rugby- to museums – ethnographic museum and Malba museum and to the theatre may be the subject for your project, too. So bring your camera and a notebook with you, in order to record all the details.
The method of presentation is also chosen by the students. It may be through a role play, a poster, a tourist guide-book, a video, a magazine, PowerPoint with pictures, a recording, performing a play scene, a game, etc.
You should tell the teacher about the subject of your project and the technical requirements for its presentation. (Over-head, TV,CD/DVD, etc.). If you use PowerPoint for this project, you will not be allowed to use it for the next, and vice versa.
We recommend using handmade posters, so that a tangible product from your presentation remains for other students interested in the subject to see.
The day of the presentation you are expected to hand in a written version of it. This writing will have another grade, as the weekly writings. In order to obtain a good grade, it is advisable to show the plan to the teacher, either in classes previous to the presentation or during the teacher´s office hours.
Project 2 (individual or in groups of 2 or 3 students) DUE: Week 12
It may be about:
a more academic project (e.g. tell the class about what you learned in other courses, perform part of the play you rehearsed at your drama course, etc.)
the trip or trips you made during the mid-semester break
a play you saw at the theatre, tango, your visits to different neighborhoods in BA. d) your final research paper on a subject at your choice.
In every case, you must talk with your teacher about the subject some days before your presentation, so
that your work can be supervised.
For Project 1, it is not compulsory to make presentation in a formal register, but for Project 2 it is a requirement. (you will be expected to use special words and phrases to introduce the subject, to open and close each part of your presentation, to talk about conclusions , to close your presentation and open a debate, etc.)
You should tell the teacher about the subject of your project and the technical requirements for its presentation. (over-head, TV ,CD/DVD , etc.). If you used PowerPoint for Project 1, you will not be allowed to use it for Project 2.
We recommend using handmade posters, so that a tangible product from your presentation remains for other students interested in the subject to see.
The day of the presentation you are expected to hand in a written version of it. This writing will have another grade (as the weekly writings). In order to obtain a good grade, it is advisable to show the plan to the teacher, either in classes previous to the presentation or during the teacher´s office hours.
Academic Policy Guidelines ACADEMIC STANDING
All students must maintain good academic standing throughout the period of study with IES. A student
may be dismissed from the program at any time for unsatisfactory class preparation, attendance or performance.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Students must complete all components of the required work for each course according to the deadlines established for each component. Failure to complete a component of the course requirements as scheduled or when due may result in a grade of „F‟ for the course.
PLAGIARISM AND OTHER ACADEMIC INFRACTIONS
Plagiarism, self-plagiarism, cheating, use of unauthorized materials, sabotage, fabrication of information/deception will result in immediate report to the Academic Dean and in severe sanctions.
EXAMINATIONS
A mid-term evaluation and normally a written final examination are required in each course. The nature of a particular course may dictate a form of final evaluation and assessment other than a written exam. Under no circumstances will exam dates (finals or midterms) be changed or make-up exams scheduled. IES faculty (not IES staff) will reschedule an exam in case of student‟s hospitalization or travel emergency for direct family members. Written exams can only be made up in the two following cases:
- If a student is admitted to a hospital.
- If there is a direct family emergency and the student has to leave the country.
CLASSROOM ETIQUETTE and PARTICIPATION
The student should attend the course with the required study material: book, reader, etc.
All class individual and group class activities, as well as any written answer or oral presentation may be graded.
The teachers may give quizzes to their students any time, without notice, in order to foster the students' commitment and participation.
Students are not allowed to sleep in class or talk about topics other from the contents of the course. In the case that students do not follow these rules, the teacher is entitled to ask them to leave the room.
No use of cell phones, either to make or receive calls or SMS during the class.
The use of laptops will only be allowed with the approval of the teacher.
No eating during class, drinking is permitted.
The students must help keep the classrooms neat and tidy.
Office Hours
All the teachers have an office hour a week to help the students with their projects or any other topic related to Spanish, whether it was taught in class or not. The students can ask the teacher to prepare a handout about any subject they may be interested in, even if it is not included in the syllabus. IT WILL BE COMPULSORY for each student to meet the teacher at least 2 times during office hours, in order to have an interview. The first one will be before the mid-semester break and the second will be after the mid-semester break. If the student cannot have these meetings at the time offered by the teacher because he/ she has another class, they must arrange another time to meet. The student must bring the books used in class, as well as any classwork or homework. Both the teacher and the student will talk about the student's progress, suggestions to solve difficulties, and any other matter that may help consolidate the student's learning.
content:
WEEK 1:
Introduction to the course.
UNIT 1. ¿Castellano, casteyano, casteshano o casteiano? Topic :Pronunciation. Grammar Contents: Linguistic contrast. Phonological differences between English and Spanish. Difficult vowel and consonant sounds. Culture Contents: The influence of the English language in Argentina. Humor. Gestures.
MÀS CULTURA “Cómo son los Argentos.” “Argentina en Números.”
WEEKS 2 & 3:
UNIT 2. Mujeres que matan Topic : Narration: the police genre and the journalistic article. Reading: Jorge Luis Borges, “Emma Zunz”. Video: Mujeres asesinas : "Yiya Murano, envenenadora" Grammar Contents: Imperfect / Preterite Alternation. Verb Aspect. Prepositions: en and durante. Culture Contents: Times for meals. Writing: the police chronicle.
WEEK 4:
UNIT 3. Decime qué español hablás y te digo de dónde sos Topic: Variaties of Spanish. Video: Vientos de agua, episode 1. Advertising Campaigns: “Afroamericanos”, “ASDRA”. Regional speech: “Desde la tierra”. Grammar Contents: Direct and Reported Speech. Resources for giving opinions and arguing. Si + conditional structures. Culture Contents: Immigration. Argentina: ¿crisol o mosaico?
MÁS CULTURA: “La variedad lingüística rioplatense. Principal characteristics. “Los inmigrantes. La población argentina en la actualidad.”
WEEK 5: Presentation of Oral Project 1
WEEK 6:
UNIT 4. El lunfardo Topic: The origin of lunfardo. Current Lunfardo . Constrasting differences in speech according to social origin (sociolect). Reading: ¿Vos me querés a mí? (selected chapters). Video: El hombre de al lado. Audio: Fernando Peña, character dialogues. Grammar Contents: verbal periphrasis. Vocabulary: lunfardo words, del vesre and argentinismos. Culture Contents: El tango. Singers and composers (“Tomo y obligo”, “Por una cabeza”, “Tortazos”, “Triste paica”, “Milonga lunfarda”).
MÀS CULTURA: “¿Como empezó el lunfardo?”
WEEK 7:
Review for the mid-term exam.
Mid-term Exam (one class of that week).
WEEK 8: Mid-semester Break
WEEKS 9 & 10:
UNIT 5. No tan distintos Topic: Male and female. Differences in gender. Video: Los simuladores. TV Commercial “Contradicciones”. Grammar Contents: Relative pronouns and clauses. Alternation indicative/subjunctive. Neologisms related to gender. Expressing wishes in the present or in the imperfect. Present of the subjunctive. Culture Contents: Machism and feminism. Piropos. Metrosexuals. Gender and sports.
MÁS Cultura: “Evita”.
WEEK 11:
UNIT 6. Buenos Aires, malos aires Topic: Problems of city life. Reading: Selection of blogs about the city. Grammar Contents: Formal and informal register. The formal letter. The e-mail. Instructions, conditions, requirements, prohibitions. Culture Contents: transportation, security, the environment, urban planning . Photography Contest. Writing: Applying for a scholarship. Recommendation letter.
MÁS CULTURA: “Siglo XX, Cambalache”
WEEK 12:
UNIT 7. Crisis y oportunidades Topic: Poverty and marginality. Reading: Bernardo Kordon, Relatos porteños. Nicolás Olivari, poems. Enrique González Tuñón, Camas desde un peso. Video: Vientos de agua, episode 2. Grammar Contents: Subordinate clauses: concessive, consecutive clauses; clauses of purpose and cause. Vocabulary: Lexicon related to poverty and marginality. Culture Contents: The crisis of 2001. Comparison with the crisis in U.S.A. Poverty, slums and cartonerismo.
MÁS CULTURA: “Argentina, un país democrático”
WEEK 13: Presentation of oral project 2.
WEEK 14:
UNIT 8. Es menester que sea rock Topic: Rock culture in Argentina. Audio: Micros by Alfredo Rosso. Grammar Contents: the opinion text. Active and Passive Voice. Impersonality expressions. Uses of the pronoun se. The encyclopaedic register. CultureContents: Argentine Rock . Blending with other kinds of music and rhythms. The Latin American stereotypes.
WEEK 15:
Review for final exam. Final exam (one of the class days that week).
Equivalencies
ACTFL: Advanced Plus
MCER: B2+ /C1
Required readings:
Class book Español 325.
Novel : Historia Argentina by Rodrigo Fresán.(compulsory)
Material related to local current events and to culture from BA, Río de la Plata, Argentina and/or Latin America, selected and provided by the teacher.
Advanced Spanish Ii
None
Attendance and punctuality are mandatory. Any legitimate reason for not attending class or a field work activity (medical emergency, etc.) must be referred directly to the Academic office (not to the instructor) with proper documentation. Students missing class due to medical reasons need to get a doctor‟s note from Emergencias Médicas to be handed-in at the Academic Affairs office. Without that note, the absence cannot be excused. Being late to class will mean half of an absence. Coming to class more than 15 minutes late will mean one absence. Courses taught one day per week allow a maximum of 1½ absences. Courses taught two days per week allow a maximum of 2½ absences. Courses taught three days per week allow a maximum of 3½ absences. Every unexcused absence after the maximum allowance will lower half a point of the student‟s final grade (for instance, from “A” to “A-”, from “A-” to “B+” and so on). Students who are at risk of failing to meet these attendance requirements will be notified and summoned by the Academic Dean.
The first class day each week, except weeks 5 and 12 (project weeks) and weeks 7 and 14 (exam weeks), students will be expected to hand in a written text with their reflections, opinions and descriptions related to cultural, academic or touristic aspects, about what they did during the weekend (a trip, a ride around the city, a visit to a museum, a party, etc.). In these reports, students should apply an intercultural point of view, and analyze similarities and contrasts between his or her own culture and this new culture they are getting to know, considering “ culture” in the broad sense, which the bibliography (Canale and Swain 1986, Sanz 1999, Miquel 2003) summarizes as “ The three Ps” from the most evident and superficial (products, practices) to the most implicit (perspectives). The teacher of each course will determine the complexity of each writing assignment according to the Spanish level of the course. The best writings will be selected and exhibited on a board. At the end of the semester, the students whose reports were selected will receive a certificate signed by the authorities of IES Abroad Buenos Aires.
Homework Assignments
The students will have to spend 5 or 6 hours a week doing homework. We strongly recommend not letting undone homework assignments pile up until the day before they are due, but to devote an hour every day to it. The results are always much better this way. The purpose of homework tasks is that students study, search information, and complete exercises, in order to reanalyze the topics taught in class. Homework will always include one writing assignment per week. Students that turn in assignments late will obtain a lower grade.
Research Projects (they must be presented orally, with visual support)
Project 1 (individual or in groups of 2 or 3 students)
DUE: Week 5
It consists of searching for information on Buenos Aires and/or Argentina and sharing it with the class, using the communication tools reviewed and learned in class. The kind of research will depend on the interest of the students, so the subject will be chosen by each of them. It may be about museums, places for shopping or eating, parks and squares, bars, plastic arts, monuments, habits, neighborhoods, poets, soccer (fútbol).
Also take into account that the visits with IES Abroad to sport events, -fútbol and rugby- to museums – ethnographic museum and Malba museum and to the theatre may be the subject for your project, too. So bring your camera and a notebook with you, in order to record all the details.
The method of presentation is also chosen by the students. It may be through a role play, a poster, a tourist guide-book, a video, a magazine, PowerPoint with pictures, a recording, performing a play scene, a game, etc.
You should tell the teacher about the subject of your project and the technical requirements for its presentation. (Over-head, TV,CD/DVD, etc.). If you use PowerPoint for this project, you will not be allowed to use it for the next, and vice versa.
We recommend using handmade posters, so that a tangible product from your presentation remains for other students interested in the subject to see.
The day of the presentation you are expected to hand in a written version of it. This writing will have another grade, as the weekly writings. In order to obtain a good grade, it is advisable to show the plan to the teacher, either in classes previous to the presentation or during the teacher´s office hours.
Project 2 (individual or in groups of 2 or 3 students)
DUE: Week 12
It may be about:
In every case, you must talk with your teacher about the subject some days before your presentation, so
that your work can be supervised.
For Project 1, it is not compulsory to make presentation in a formal register, but for Project 2 it is a requirement. (you will be expected to use special words and phrases to introduce the subject, to open and close each part of your presentation, to talk about conclusions , to close your presentation and open a debate, etc.)
You should tell the teacher about the subject of your project and the technical requirements for its presentation. (over-head, TV ,CD/DVD , etc.). If you used PowerPoint for Project 1, you will not be allowed to use it for Project 2.
We recommend using handmade posters, so that a tangible product from your presentation remains for other students interested in the subject to see.
The day of the presentation you are expected to hand in a written version of it. This writing will have another grade (as the weekly writings). In order to obtain a good grade, it is advisable to show the plan to the teacher, either in classes previous to the presentation or during the teacher´s office hours.
Academic Policy Guidelines
ACADEMIC STANDING
All students must maintain good academic standing throughout the period of study with IES. A student
may be dismissed from the program at any time for unsatisfactory class preparation, attendance or performance.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Students must complete all components of the required work for each course according to the deadlines established for each component. Failure to complete a component of the course requirements as scheduled or when due may result in a grade of „F‟ for the course.
PLAGIARISM AND OTHER ACADEMIC INFRACTIONS
Plagiarism, self-plagiarism, cheating, use of unauthorized materials, sabotage, fabrication of information/deception will result in immediate report to the Academic Dean and in severe sanctions.
EXAMINATIONS
A mid-term evaluation and normally a written final examination are required in each course. The nature of a particular course may dictate a form of final evaluation and assessment other than a written exam. Under no circumstances will exam dates (finals or midterms) be changed or make-up exams scheduled. IES faculty (not IES staff) will reschedule an exam in case of student‟s hospitalization or travel emergency for direct family members. Written exams can only be made up in the two following cases:
- If a student is admitted to a hospital.
- If there is a direct family emergency and the student has to leave the country.
CLASSROOM ETIQUETTE and PARTICIPATION
Office Hours
All the teachers have an office hour a week to help the students with their projects or any other topic related to Spanish, whether it was taught in class or not. The students can ask the teacher to prepare a handout about any subject they may be interested in, even if it is not included in the syllabus. IT WILL BE COMPULSORY for each student to meet the teacher at least 2 times during office hours, in order to have an interview. The first one will be before the mid-semester break and the second will be after the mid-semester break. If the student cannot have these meetings at the time offered by the teacher because he/ she has another class, they must arrange another time to meet. The student must bring the books used in class, as well as any classwork or homework. Both the teacher and the student will talk about the student's progress, suggestions to solve difficulties, and any other matter that may help consolidate the student's learning.
WEEK 1:
Introduction to the course.
UNIT 1. ¿Castellano, casteyano, casteshano o casteiano?
Topic :Pronunciation.
Grammar Contents: Linguistic contrast. Phonological differences between English and Spanish. Difficult vowel and consonant sounds.
Culture Contents: The influence of the English language in Argentina. Humor. Gestures.
MÀS CULTURA “Cómo son los Argentos.” “Argentina en Números.”
WEEKS 2 & 3:
UNIT 2. Mujeres que matan
Topic : Narration: the police genre and the journalistic article. Reading: Jorge Luis Borges, “Emma Zunz”.
Video: Mujeres asesinas : "Yiya Murano, envenenadora"
Grammar Contents: Imperfect / Preterite Alternation. Verb Aspect. Prepositions: en and durante. Culture Contents: Times for meals.
Writing: the police chronicle.
WEEK 4:
UNIT 3. Decime qué español hablás y te digo de dónde sos
Topic: Variaties of Spanish.
Video: Vientos de agua, episode 1. Advertising Campaigns: “Afroamericanos”, “ASDRA”.
Regional speech: “Desde la tierra”.
Grammar Contents: Direct and Reported Speech. Resources for giving opinions and arguing. Si + conditional structures.
Culture Contents: Immigration. Argentina: ¿crisol o mosaico?
MÁS CULTURA: “La variedad lingüística rioplatense. Principal characteristics. “Los inmigrantes. La población argentina en la actualidad.”
WEEK 5: Presentation of Oral Project 1
WEEK 6:
UNIT 4. El lunfardo
Topic: The origin of lunfardo. Current Lunfardo . Constrasting differences in speech according to social origin (sociolect).
Reading: ¿Vos me querés a mí? (selected chapters). Video: El hombre de al lado.
Audio: Fernando Peña, character dialogues.
Grammar Contents: verbal periphrasis.
Vocabulary: lunfardo words, del vesre and argentinismos.
Culture Contents: El tango. Singers and composers (“Tomo y obligo”, “Por una cabeza”, “Tortazos”, “Triste paica”, “Milonga lunfarda”).
MÀS CULTURA: “¿Como empezó el lunfardo?”
WEEK 7:
Review for the mid-term exam.
Mid-term Exam (one class of that week).
WEEK 8: Mid-semester Break
WEEKS 9 & 10:
UNIT 5. No tan distintos
Topic: Male and female. Differences in gender.
Video: Los simuladores. TV Commercial “Contradicciones”.
Grammar Contents: Relative pronouns and clauses. Alternation indicative/subjunctive. Neologisms related to gender. Expressing wishes in the present or in the imperfect. Present of the subjunctive. Culture Contents: Machism and feminism. Piropos. Metrosexuals. Gender and sports.
MÁS Cultura: “Evita”.
WEEK 11:
UNIT 6. Buenos Aires, malos aires
Topic: Problems of city life.
Reading: Selection of blogs about the city.
Grammar Contents: Formal and informal register. The formal letter. The e-mail. Instructions, conditions, requirements, prohibitions.
Culture Contents: transportation, security, the environment, urban planning . Photography Contest.
Writing: Applying for a scholarship. Recommendation letter.
MÁS CULTURA: “Siglo XX, Cambalache”
WEEK 12:
UNIT 7. Crisis y oportunidades
Topic: Poverty and marginality.
Reading: Bernardo Kordon, Relatos porteños. Nicolás Olivari, poems. Enrique González Tuñón, Camas desde un peso.
Video: Vientos de agua, episode 2.
Grammar Contents: Subordinate clauses: concessive, consecutive clauses; clauses of purpose and cause.
Vocabulary: Lexicon related to poverty and marginality.
Culture Contents: The crisis of 2001. Comparison with the crisis in U.S.A. Poverty, slums and cartonerismo.
MÁS CULTURA: “Argentina, un país democrático”
WEEK 13: Presentation of oral project 2.
WEEK 14:
UNIT 8. Es menester que sea rock
Topic: Rock culture in Argentina.
Audio: Micros by Alfredo Rosso.
Grammar Contents: the opinion text. Active and Passive Voice. Impersonality expressions. Uses of the pronoun se. The encyclopaedic register.
CultureContents: Argentine Rock . Blending with other kinds of music and rhythms. The Latin American stereotypes.
WEEK 15:
Review for final exam.
Final exam (one of the class days that week).
Equivalencies