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Spanish Culture

Within the academic program, in addition to language classes, students will be able to take subjects on different aspects of Spanish culture with a triple objective:

• to deepen and reinforce their knowledge of the Spanish language
• to learn about different aspects of the Spanish Culture
• to obtain specific training in professional fields

Each term, several subjects of 15 hours each are programmed, adapted to the different levels of knowledge of Spanish.

These subjects are taught between Monday and Friday from 12:30 to 14:00 and/or from 16:00 to 18:00.

Subjects

Conversation and communicative practices I & II
Basic skills in the use of Spanish
Introduction to Spanish culture and civilization
Introduction to Hispanic culture through music
Introduction to Spanish for tourism
Introduction to Hispanic American Culture and Civilization
Spanish for Business
Spanish culture and civilization
Creative Writing
An approach to the regional diversity of Spain
An approach to contemporary Spanish literature
Media and Communication
A vision of Spanish society through short films I & II

 
Conversation and communicative practices I & II 

This course, adapted to the level of each group, is designed for those students who wish to improve their oral and communicative competence in Spanish. They will learn to communicate and interact when carrying out simple, everyday tasks that require simple and direct exchanges of information on familiar or common issues.

 
Basic skills in the use of Spanish 

This course is intended for beginner level students who wish to develop skills in the area of learning Spanish as a foreign language. Students will develop their skills in the interpretation of written and oral texts, in the production of written texts and will improve their communicative ability.

 
Introduction to Spanish culture and civilization

This course introduces the most important aspects of the plurality of contemporary Spain. It is aimed at beginner and intermediate level students with the objective of helping them to acquire clear and simple references of the different aspects of Spanish culture and civilization.

 

Introduction to Hispanic culture through music

This course is designed for beginner and intermediate level students who wish to learn Hispanic culture through music.
Music will be the ideal vehicle to transmit pragmatic and sociocultural knowledge that students can learn through real contextualized language samples.

  
Introduction to Spanish for tourism

This course is aimed at beginner and intermediate level students who wish to develop their linguistic competence through the world of tourism, while broadening their cultural knowledge of the Spanish-speaking world.

 

Introduction to Hispanic American Culture and Civilization

This course is designed for intermediate level students who wish to broaden their cultural knowledge of the Spanish-speaking world and to get closer to Hispanic American culture and civilization.
The general program includes several activities that integrate all the skills in which a second language learner should exercise.

 

Spanish for Business

This course, adapted to the level of each group, is aimed at those students who wish to make their first attempt at learning Spanish focused on the specific field of business.
It will provide the student with a general knowledge of the most relevant economic aspects of the world of business and economics.

 

Spanish culture and civilization

This course is intended for intermediate and advanced level students who wish to broaden their cultural knowledge of the Spanish-speaking world and integrate into it in a more conscious and profound way.
Students are expected to develop an awareness of and informed opinion on the major historical issues, cultural traditions and artistic movements in Spain in the 20th and 21st centuries as well as to develop the ability to suggest hypotheses about their future.

 

Creative Writing

This course is aimed at intermediate and advanced level students who wish to develop their linguistic competence through the knowledge of the mechanisms involved in the elaboration of texts and the vision of reading as an expression of a creative act. Written expression involves grammatical knowledge, cognitive processes and stylistic resources, as well as communicative strategies.
The student will have the opportunity to express his/her own experiences, interests and concerns in the written text in different ways and to apply methods such as imitation, modification, recreation or play.

 

An approach to the regional diversity of Spain

This course is aimed at intermediate and advanced level students who wish to deepen their knowledge of the regional cultural diversity of Spain and with the intention of bringing them closer to some of its most relevant aspects.
For this purpose, the most significant regions have been selected, either for their historical importance or for their socio-cultural richness. Also, considering the learning environment, it has been deemed appropriate to present a unit corresponding to the Spanish region where the student resides.

 

An approach to contemporary Spanish literature

This course is aimed at those advanced level students who wish to make their first incursion into a study of Spanish literature focused on the contemporary literary panorama.
An overview of contemporary Spanish literature will be presented, showing its evolution in parallel to the socio-cultural changes that have taken place in Spain in recent decades.

 

Media and Communication

This course is aimed at advanced level students who wish to develop their linguistic competence by reflecting on the power and influence of the audiovisual language of the media in our societies.

 

A vision of Spanish society through short films I & II

This course is addressed to advanced level students with the objective of providing them with sociocultural knowledge of contemporary Spain through short films. Specific features and characteristics of the environment in which the student lives will be presented and suggestions for discussion and reflection will be offered in order to develop not only oral comprehension and discursive skills, but also tolerance and intercultural respect.