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AIFS Study Abroad in Barcelona, Spain
Summer 2012
Course Descriptions |
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Recommended credits are shown in parentheses. Spanish Language Courses| Spanish Language Courses | | | Course Code and Credits: | Spanish Language 100 (4)(6) | | Course Title: | Elementary Spanish | | Course Description: | | Students with no previous Spanish study or with only one semester
in college usually place at this level. Focus is on functional
uses of the language as well as grammar, lexicon and cultural
themes. Included are introductions, giving and receiving information,
daily routine, expressing likes and dislikes, indicative (both
regular and irregular verbs), past perfect and preterit tenses,
reflexive verbs and reading text aloud. | | | Course Code and Credits: | Spanish Language 200 (4)(6) | | Course Title: | Intermediate Spanish | | Course Description: | | Students who have studied Spanish throughout high school and
continued with one semester in college, or students who have 2
to 4 semesters in college, usually place into this level. It concentrates
on overall communicative skills: perfect tenses, preterit
versus imperfect, telling stories, the future and the conditional,
the uses of the present subjunctive mood, positive and negative
imperative, extraction of information from documents, dictation,
formal letter writing (verb tenses). | | | Course Code and Credits: | Spanish Language 300 (4)(6) | | Course Title: | Advanced Spanish | | Course Description: | | Students with at least 6 semesters of college Spanish, experience
living in a Spanish-speaking country or Spanish study on a
regular basis since elementary school usually place at this level.
Grammar work is to refine and develop communicative skills:
the impersonal “se”, adjectives, nouns and verbs, indicative and
subjunctive tenses, spelling and accents, arguments/debates, expressing
degrees of possibilities, cause, consequence and mode
of action, formal and informal letters. Cultural topics include the
post-Franco transition to democracy, present Spanish society, a
newspaper workshop, Gaudí and the “streets of Barcelona” and
reading “Sin noticias de Gurb” by Eduardo Mendoza. | |
Content Courses | Courses taught in English | | | Course Code and Credits: | Business 301 (3) | | Course Title: | Business in Europe | | Course Description: | | By the end of this course, students will have a greater understanding
of the political and legal framework of Europe as well as
knowledge of the economic and institutional environment. Policy
making in the E.U. and its repercussions in the European business
environment will also be covered. The course aims to help
students understand the functions of the E.U. and the regulations
within which companies must operate. | | | Course Code and Credits: | History 305 (3) | | Course Title: | Understanding Barcelona: the City and its History | | Course Description: | | This course explores the history of Barcelona from past to present
by examining the changes in the physical landscape of the
city. A broad approach is taken which not only focuses on written
text, but also includes the visible historical identity in buildings
and traditions. | | | Course Code and Credits: | Religious Studies/Sociology 307 (3) | | Course Title: | Religion and Identity: Islamic and Jewish Culture in Spain | | Course Description: | | Discusses the importance and the effect of the Mediterranean’s
three civilizations (Muslim, Christian and Jewish) on Spain’s history,
tradition, language and culture. The course highlights these
societies’ methods of interaction and mutual influence. The focus
of this course is on cross-faith communication and how this is
portrayed by modern historians depending on contemporary
concerns. | |
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