This course is designed for students interested in developing their Spanish abilities to practice and use it in profession related contexts. The emphasis of this course is placed both on the improvement of linguistic skills and also on the...
Research has demonstrated that study abroad can enhance every aspect of language ability. One of the most important general findings of this research is, however, that study abroad is most beneficial for the development of abilities related to social...
This course is designed for advanced students. It focuses on all the skills but principally on oral and writing communication. The goals of the course are to broaden oral expression both individually and within groups as well as writing with...
This course is aimed at those students with a strong level of communicative competence in Spanish as a foreign language who demonstrate a special interest in developing their own creative experience in Spanish, as well as the desire to acquire the...
According to U.S. Census Bureau, the Hispanic population living in the United States in 2012 represented approximately 16.9% of the U.S. total population, making people of Hispanic origin the nation's largest ethnic or race minority. And every year...
This workshop is directed toward those who have interest in the medical field, and aims to equip students with a Spanish competency level that permits them to communicate in every day life as well as situations specific to medical activities in...
New Fall 2025 Course pending approval from IES Abroad Curriculum Committee
The course delves into the study of the relationship between language and society across social, spatial, and stylistic dimensions, exploring how various social factors—such as...
The aim of this course is to study lyric movements in the Spanish Golden Age, from the Italianate revolution to the Counter-Reformation spirituality, analyzing the topics and stylistic features characteristic of the great Renaissance and Baroque...
Latin American intellectual culture has been famously described as a garrison of sorts, in which intellectuals built a whole worldview while warding off everything that seemed to threaten their authority and prestige. The binary opposition civilizati...
In this course the student will gain proficiency in the skillful use of the language and will be able to refine the tools necessary to engage native speakers in fluid conversation, and will also be able to maintain a complex argumentation. At the end...