Spring semester, even years. This course offers an in-depth review of Spanish grammar with an emphasis on developing advanced writing skills in Spanish. The students have the opportunity to practice grammar usage by writing compositions throughout the semester. This course is required of all majors and teaching minors, and is strongly recommended for students who wish to improve their grammar and writing skills at the advanced level. Spring semester, even years.
Topic varies yearly.
Course content will vary and will explore a topic or problem in depth through reading, discussion and writing. This course provides students with phonetic, phonological, morphological, and syntactic aspects of the Spanish language in its synchronic and diachronic contexts. Since the course is particularly targeted to teaching majors, special attention is given to discussion of patterns of errors, and potential linguistic problems with which non-native speakers of Spanish are faced. Evaluation includes exercises based on television broadcasts, readings from diverse sources, quizzes, a short research paper, and a final exam. The course is taught in Spanish with a minimum use of English.