LINGUA SPAGNOLA 2

Knowledge and Understanding Capacities:

At the end of the course the students are expected to:

- be able to solve problems corresponding to the advanced C1 / C2 level and have acquired the skills of these levels.

- be able to think over their own language skills according to the language model "language-as-problem, language-as-right, and language-as-resource" (Ruiz 2013, "Orientations in Language Planning")

- identify the different varieties of Spanish.

- be able to understand and annylize texts able to understand specialized texts of different fields (legal, political, scientific) and non-standard language (Spanglish, jargon)

- have a profound knowledge and understanding of the political and cultural topicsand phenomena discussed during the course.

- be able to produce short specialized texts and short critical essays in Spanish.

-analyze and understand text as a communicative unit and understand its configuration.

-make a textual commentary on a pragmatic and lexicological-semantic level

- identify and know the textual mechanisms of cohesion.

 

Abilities and Skills to Apply Knowledge and Understanding

At the end of the course, the student must be able to do text commentaries of the following types:

Chronicles
Reportages
Opinion columns
Critical essays
Statutory or regulatory texts
Legal texts
Scientific texts
Literary criticism texts.
Audiovisual texts (documentaries, songs, advertising)
Interviews and biographical profiles

Critical Thniking skills:

At the end of the course the students must be able to:

- analyze texts of diverse pan-Hispanic typoligies.

- critically apply the readings in the program.

- create a corpus of texts of the different types in the program.

Communicative skills:

At the end of the course students will be able to identify the different varieties of standard and non standard Spanish. Furthermore, they are expected to be able to participate in debates on topics corresponding to a C2 level

Learning skills:

At the end of the course the students must have developed a critical knowledge corresponding to their linguistic level as well as be able to analyze and criticize texts of different types and dialectal pan-Hispanic varieties.

Fundamental bibliography:

• Escandell Vidal, María Victoria. La comunicación. Lengua, cognición y sociedad. Ediciones Akal, 2014.
• Escribano Hernández, Asunción. Comentario de textos interpretativos y de opinión. Arco Libros, 2008.
• Becerra Hiraldo, José María. Comentario lexicológico-semántico de textos. Arco libros, 2001
• Marimón Llorca, Carmen. Análisis de textos en español: teoría y práctica. Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alicante, 2008.

Suggested grammar books:

• Penny, Ralph. Gramática Histórica del Español. Ariel, 2014.
• El buen uso del español. Real Academia de la Lengua. 2014.

Other suggested bibliography:

• Hernández, Miriam. Tipos de escrito II. Exposición y argumentación. Arco libros 1994.
• Gutiérrez Ordoñez, Salvador. Temas, remas, focos, tópicos y comentarios. Arco libros, 2010.
• Ramírez Luengo, José Luis. Breve Historia del Español en América. Arco Libros, 2010.
• Bravo García, Eva. El español internacional. Arco Libros, 2008.

Mandatory novels:

• Padura, Leonardo. Pasado Perfecto (Mario Conde). Tusquets 2010.
• Valenzuela, Luisa. Hay que Sonreir. Tierra firme, 2017.
• Castellanos, Rosario. Ciudad Real. Debolsillo 2016.

Two novels chosen by the student:

• Vila Matas, Enrique. Dublinesca. Debolsillo 2011.
• Enriquez, Mariana. Los peligros de fumar en la cama. Anagrama 2017.
• Cortázar, Julio. Último Round. Siglo XXI, 2011.
• Bolaño, Roberto. La Literatura Nazi en América. Debolsillo, 2017.
• Bolaño, Roberto. Los detectives Salvajes. Anagrama, 2017 (if this novel is chosen, it is not necessery to read another one of this group).

Filmography (choose one film of each group):

Group I

1. El espíritu de la colmena. Víctor Erice, 1973.

2. El Crimen de Cuenca, Pilar Miró, 1979. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nEAqa_QuDY

Group II

3. La isla mínima, Alberto Rodríguez, 2014.

4. El hombre de las mil caras. Alberto Rodríguez, 2016.

5. El club. Pablo Larraín, 2017.

6. No. Pablo Larraín, 2011.

Group III

7. Relatos Salvajes. Damián Szifron 2014.

8. Pieles. Eduardo Casanova, 2017.

9. Rara. Pepa San Martín 2016..

10. Paraíso, Mariana Chenillo, 2013.

11. El apóstata, Federico Veiroj, 2015.

12. La Novia, Paula Ortiz, 2015

Group IV

13. El día de la Bestia. Alex de la Iglesia, 1995.

14. Musarañas. Esteban Roel y Juan Fernando Andrés, 2013.

15. El orfanato. Juan Antonio Bayona, 2007.

16. El laberinto del fauno. Guillermo del Toro, 2006.

17. El espinazo del diablo. Guillermo del Toro, 2001.

18. Tesis. Alejandro Amenábar, 1996.

19. Abre los ojos. Alejandro Amenábar, 1997.

20. Mientras Duermes. Jaume Balaguerò, 2011.

21. El guardián invisible. Fernando González Molina, 2017.

Group V

22. Backyard, el Traspatio. Carlos Cerrera, 2009 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8kCoj1ijX0