SP2001 Spanish Language and Critical Approaches to Texts 1

In language the four skills of reading, listening, speaking, writing are developed through prepared work, class activities and language practicals. Language material will reflect cultural aspects of the Spanish speaking world. The module maintains progress from SP1002; there is a learning gradient. In texts, major critical approaches are studied with reference to the four genres of poetry, prose, drama and film and applied to the critical analysis of specific examples of each from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first, drawn from Spain and Spanish America. The reading list is available on line as from the preceding month of May.

SP2002 Spanish Language and Critical Approaches to Texts 2

The language part of the module consists of two hours each week and one language practical based on audiovisual material available from the MMC (Multimedia Centre), developing the skills of reading, listening, speaking and writing. Language material will reflect cultural aspects of the Spanish-speaking world. The module maintains progress from SP2001 and SP2005; there is a learning gradient. Literary texts are studied in the context of regions and epochs including Middle Ages and Renaissance in Spain and modern Spanish America. The reading list is available online as from the preceding month of May.

SP2003 Spanish Language Advanced 1

The module is designed for students for whom a language-only course is appropriate and for Honours students in other subjects who wish to develop facility in Spanish in order to advance their Honours studies. The student will develop listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. A booklet, Revise & Consolidate, is provided for the module. It consists of twelve units, each combining a topic of grammar, a communicative activity in class and varied work, including comprehension and precis.

SP2004 Spanish Language Advanced 2

This module is appropriate for students who wish to study language only and do not intend to study Spanish at Honours level. An exception to this rule is the case of students intending to study either Spanish and two other subjects or Spanish and Social Anthropology, for whom there will be special teaching arrangements. It is also appropriate for Honours students in other subjects who wish to develop further language skills for their Honours programme. The students will develop further the listening, speaking, reading and writing skills that featured in the first semester pre-requisite. The module involves a variety of oral and written tasks. Language material will reflect cultural aspects of the Spanish-speaking world.

SP2005 Spanish Language and Texts: ex-Beginners

The module is designed for ex-Beginners in Spanish who wish to move into mainstream studies of language and literature. The title of the language programme, Revise and Consolidate, explains its goal: revision and progressively deeper understanding of the language, intensive practice in oral, spoken and written skills. In Texts, study is planned so that thorough vocabulary acquisition, analysis of syntax and understanding of extended texts can be realistically achieved. This module not only opens the way to Spanish Honours for ex-Beginners but could be useful for students who wish to study other subjects in Spain at a later date. The reading list is available online as from the preceding month of May.