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This course has been designed for students who have already acquired a high level of Spanish and want to move up to mastery level. Specifically, you will practice advanced grammar structures to improve both your written and oral skills. The course also includes a review of advanced vocabulary, mainly the use of idiomatic words and phrases, which allows you to master the skills of the language. This course is based on an eclectic methodology that makes use of different approaches to achieve a complete integration of spanish civilization and culture.

100 level: This course aims to familiarize students with the pronunciation of the Spanish language, with the basic elements of grammar, and with a vocabulary that allows them to develop daily activities. We apply oral and written exercises that promote the development of communicative skills. This type of intensive course is characterized by dynamism and variety of activities in each class.200 level: Students taking this course must achieve skills in the proper use of different verbal tenses.

The present course, Intensive Review Spanish Grammar, aims to recover and systematize students' knowledge about the grammar of Spanish, in order to contribute to the improvement, by advanced students of Spanish as a foreign language, of their communicative competence. Such competence is understood as the dominion and generalized access to a baggage of strategic resources oriented to an effective interaction and communication within the framework of a certain society and its culture.

This course consists of five modules and was designed for students at an elementary / intermediate level (CEFR A2/B1) who need to learn essential Spanish to face everyday situations as tourists in Spanish-speaking countries, especially in Argentina. It focuses on communication rather than grammar, and provides students with basic vocabulary as well as an introduction to the Argentinian culture.  

This course is meant for students with little or no experience with the Spanish language. You will learn basic greetings and sayings to help you better navigate the local Segovia community and Spanish culture during the program.

This class introduces students to a selection of texts written in the various languages of the Iberian Peninsula (Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Castilian, Catalan, Asturian, Portuguese) from 900-1600 in their literary, artistic, and historical contexts. It is a survey course meant to familiarize students with some of the major historical, cultural, and literary currents of the premodern Iberian world. In addition, students will gain proficiency in the critical analysis of primary literary texts, using secondary texts as supporting evidence for historical and cultural context.

In this course we will study the languages of Iberia in their socio-cultural context. Topics will include the development of the Iberian Romance languages from Latin, Andalusi Arabic in its classical and vernacular forms as well as Aljamiado (Islamic Spanish), Hebrew, and Judeo-Spanish. Emphasis will be on language use across different speech communities, and the relationship between written and spoken communication in their social, cultural, and political contexts.

The composition class contributes to the development of written production and interaction. The development of such a skill is based on four axes: content; acquisition and expansion of vocabulary; grammar; and spelling all based on students' previous knowledge. The above is based on the fact that writing is a technique that exercises different functions in everyday life according to the contexts and purposes of the user of the language

This course offers the opportunity for students to learn and practice the correct pronunciation of Spanish with the aim of obtaining greater security and confidence in interacting on a daily basis with Spanish-speakers.  More specifically, the course focuses on teaching students basic concepts of phonetics, spelling and intonation of Spanish with the aim for them to be able to identify and reproduce both oral and written versions of all the phonemes of the Spanish language.In the Spring Semester this course is offered in Block B.

This intensive course is part of a complementary three-class curriculum including Grammar A2 and Conversation A2, which together cover the second year of Spanish (SPAN 201-202-203). In this writing course the students of intermediate level produce different types of texts, such as: descriptive, narrative, argumentative and expository in situations of daily and academic use.