European Union Issues
Provides students of Spanish, Business, Translation, Interpretation and International Relations an opportunity to study the process of European integration, with special attention to Spain. The aim of the course is to answer the following broad questions. What is the European Union? How and why did it evolve? What does it do? How does it work? What difference does it make?
Political and Social Issues in Contemporary Mexico
Provides students with an opportunity to understand Mexico's socio-economic and political development through films and in depth readings in Spanish.
Environmental Issues: Spain
This course offers an introduction to environmental issues. Environmental concerns often appear in the news, and it can be difficult to tell what matters, or what choice we have. In fact, future international professionals, whether they work in the policy, business, or language sectors, will encounter environmental issues on their agendas. Today we are threatened by the big environmental issues of the 21st century: global warming, climate change, pollution, and gross contamination of the atmosphere, land and oceans.
Business Spanish
Developed for advanced students of Spanish who are interested in pursuing a career in the world of marketing, finance, management or accounting. Provides future professionals with the necessary linguistic, cultural and situational practice needed to be successful in the world of international business.
Terrorism in the Hispanic World
This course will introduce students to different issues in Latin America: State terrorism, Military Repressions, The Dirty War and the Disappearance of people: Human Rights, Drug Cartels in Latin America, Terrorist attacks on Amia (the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association) Argentina is home of the largest Jewish population in Latin America and this was the Argentina's deadliest bombing. Truth Commissions in Latin America.
Topics in Teaching Spanish
In this class concepts, theories and trends of applied linguistics to the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language are going to analyzed in the target language. Some theories in language acquisition are going to be examined closely. Interlanguage studies. The relationship between input, interaction and intake (mother tongue, foreign talk). Communication strategies. Personal features that affect foreign language acquisition. Learning and communication strategies (L2 and the use of strategies).
Teaching Spanish Grammar
Didáctica de la gramática española es un curso diseñado para proporcionar a los aspirantes a la enseñanza de la lengua española un conocimiento teórico y práctico sobre las características fundamentales de la gramática y el discurso español. El contenido del curso se basa en las siguientes premisas:
Pedagogical Grammar of Spanish
Offers students an approach to language understanding which involves the learner actively in the process of discovering the principles which constitute the language system. Provides future teachers of Spanish with a command of grammar and gives them the opportunity to explore different way of dealing with it in the classroom.
Spanish Online for Interns
Students who participate in an IPSS project in a Spanish-speaking country and have yet to fulfill the three course component will enroll in a class, HS390. While on assignment they will exchange regular written and oral reports with fellow students. The other students may be in several different countries. The course will assist individual students to build towards a final presentation to be shared online and critiqued there by faculty and fellow students. Where possible, these presentations will be gathered for presentation on campus as models for future participants in the program.