COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Use of vocabulary, structures and expressions for different situations at an advanced and superior level. Description of characteristics about self and others.
Expression of opinions, detailed descriptions, narratives, comments in order to influence someone else’s behavior, judgments, hypothesis, presumptions.
Explanation of a personal and ideological stand. Argumentation to sustain a specific point. Indirect style. Reliance on actions in indicative and subjunctive.
Expressing feelings: affliction, lamentation, distrust.
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: Spanish
GENERAL OBJECTIVE
To develop the necessary skills in order to communicate effectively in Spanish, in different situations and at different difficulty levels.
1. Individuals and groups in their context and culture
1.1. Autoconcept: skills, knowledge, experience, values, vitues and flaws, etc.
1.2. Postulation, rejection of positions and functions
1.3. Expression of condition
1.4. Characterization: description, comparison, location, valuation
1.5. Expression of opinion (agreement, opposition)
2. Communication and culture
2.1. Vocabulary to narrate historical events
2.2. Expressions to discuss
2.3. Expressions to explain cause-effect
3. Social problems and globalization
3.1. Vocabulary: the world, economic zones, cultures, ideology, trade and cultural relations, exclusion, colonization, transculturation, cooperation
3.2. Expressions to suggest, recommend, command, insist
3.3. Description of processes
3.4. Expressions to explain personal opinions, to declare ideological segues, make judgements, to discuss

4. Assumption and feeling towards certain social problems
4.1. Hypothesizing
4.2. Expressions for assumptions
4.3. Expression of feeling: affliction, regret, mistrust
5. What others say and how they say it
5.1. Structure of indirect discourse and indirect questioning
5.2. Tenses sequence using indicative or subjunctive
6. Assumptions and feelings
6.1. Structure of indirect discourse and indirect questioning
6.2. Tenses sequence using indicative or subjunctive
1. Individuals and groups in their context and culture
 To characterize and discuss about own and others’ characteristics.
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To characterize national entities, cultural groups, international organizations.
To express one’s opinion about their essential characteristics, functions and development.
2. Communication and culture
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To narrate past events using tenses sequence appropriately in Spanish.
To discuss in order to sustain a point
To explain the cause-effect relation.
3. Social problems and globalization
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To describe different kinds of social problems and their processes in detail
To make comments to influence another person’s behavior.
 To describe in detail different aspects related to globalization: economical,
 cultural and ideological zones.
To explain personal posture: ideology, judgements
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4. Assumption and feeling towards certain social problems
 To hypothesize
To express assumption
To express feelings: affliction, regret, mistrust
5. What others say and how they say it
 To express someone el se’s discourse in indirect style.
 To express dependence of actions in indicative and subjunctive.