SP 401 - Spanish Language in Context: Emerging Competent Abroad I

The objective of this course is to perfect one’s Spanish with respect to the five basic skills: oral and written comprehension, oral and written expression, and knowledge about the socio-cultural aspects of Spanish. Students should be able to communicate in Spanish with a sufficient degree of fluency and confidence in everyday situations as well as more complicated situations. In this course, students will consolidate their degree of linguistic accuracy and precision, extend their linguistic resources (in particular their vocabulary), become aware of certain aspects related to pragmatic competence in Spanish, familiarize themselves with different types of discourse (journalistic, literary, and academic discourse), and diversify the types of communicative contexts that they can handle competently.