Spanish for Graduate Students

Catalog description

This course is designed to develop and/or improve reading proficiency in Spanish. It will give students the opportunity to develop intermediate-mid to intermediate-high reading competency in the target language. Students will acquire the ability to understand main ideas and facts in description and narration of news items, personal correspondence, technical material written for general readers and simple short stories, and follow essential points in ideas of special interest or knowledge. Readings will be taken from the humanities, the arts, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. At the end of this course students will demonstrate general comprehension of a text and will be able to answer content questions in English. The course is geared towards helping graduate students pass a reading proficiency exam in Spanish, and understand research material in Spanish in their corresponding field.