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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Spanish & Lat. Amer. Studies
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
Spanish
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Prof. Aldina Quintana-Rodríguez
Coordinator Office Hours:
Wednesday, 14:15-15:15 by appointment (set via email.
Teaching Staff:
Prof Aldina Quintana-Rodriguez
Course/Module description:
This course is a linguistic introduction of modern Spanish, which includes its most elementary structures -with emphasis on the use of the subjunctive- and the standard principles of normative spelling (according to the RAE).
Reading written texts, especially journalistic and literary, with an intermediate degree of difficulty and writing summaries are part of the course's tasks.
Course/Module aims:
Acquisition of skills by students to deal with texts in Spanish, understand and summarize them, and improve their skills in writing.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
• Understand texts of intermediate difficulty.
• Write texts in Spanish whose reading will be orderly, clear, and coherent.
• Identify the common morphological forms and some syntactic patterns, such as subjunctive tenses.
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lectures, reading, writing, practical exercises, analysis of parts of speech and sentences, take-home exam.
Course/Module Content:
• Spanish in the world today
• Phonetics and phonology
• Principles of writing
• Morphology
• Simple sentence
• Word order
• Connectors
• Relative clauses
• Direct and indirect speech
• Reading, writing and analysis of texts.
Required Reading:
Reading will be given at the beginning of the semester.
Works not in the library may be obtained from the course coordinator.
Additional Reading Material:
In reading lists distributed through Moodle.
Grading Scheme :
Essay / Project / Final Assignment / Home Exam / Referat 40 %
Active Participation / Team Assignment 10 %
Submission assignments during the semester: Exercises / Essays / Audits / Reports / Forum / Simulation / others 25 %
Attendance / Participation in Field Excursion 25 %
Additional information:
PREREQUISITES:Proficiency in Spanish at intermediate level.
Advertisement: The course will be taught in Spanish with additional explanations in Hebrew.
*Using ChatGPT or another type of artificial intelligence in this course is strictly forbidden.
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