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Spanish
IP1001 BASIC SPANISH 1
Requirements: To complete the on-line Spanish Placement Test provided by Tecnológico de Monterrey placing in Basic 1level.
Credits: 6
Equivalency: IP96020 Basic Spanish 1
Development of language patterns. Real language, oral and written is linked to grammar. Application of basic grammatical knowledge to written production and reading comprehension. Reading comprehension will introduce students to authentic Spanish texts. Topics: guessing meaning, cognates, and main ideas. Sentence and paragraph production for writing different types of compositions: basic descriptions, directions, and personal compositions. Communicating in diverse situations and topics: family, weather, seasons, at a restaurant, on a trip, at home and health. Basic courtesy expressions, asking and giving information, : phone routines, cognates, connecting words, main ideas.
Language of instruction: Spanish
IP1002 BASIC SPANISH 2
Requirements: To complete the on-line Spanish Placement Test provided by Tecnológico de Monterrey placing in Basic 2 level.
Credits: 6
Equivalency: IP96021 Basic Spanish 2
Sentence and paragraph production for writing different types of compositions: abstracts, paraphrases, descriptions, narration, directions, personal letters and personal compositions. Communicating in diverse situations and discussion of different topics: university, shopping, seasons, at a restaurant, on a trip, at home, health, environment, and means of transportation. Courtesy expressions, asking and giving information and reacting to unexpected circumstances.
Language of instruction: Spanish
IP2004 INTERMEDIATE SPANISH 1
Requirements: To complete the on-line Spanish Placement Test provided by Tecnológico de Monterrey placing in Intermediate 1 level.
Credits: 6
Equivalency: IP96022 Intermediate Spanish 1
Review of basic concepts and study of intermediate grammar. Real language, oral and written, is linked to grammar. Major topics: adjectives; possessive (stressed form), reflexive, relative and object pronouns; prepositions. Verb tenses: Indicative: past, imperfect, present perfect, future, conditional; imperative: formal and informal commands; subjunctive: present, imperfect and present perfect. Application of texts and review the following concepts: main idea, connecting words, cognates, background information, paraphrases, descriptions, narration, directions, personal letters and personal compositions. Communicating in diverse situations and discussion of different topics: going on a trip, at home, health, computers, environment, hobbies, sports, the news, at the bank, and at work. Informal and formal presentations about different cultural topics.
Language of instruction: Spanish
IP2005 INTERMEDIATE SPANISH 2
Requirements: To complete the on-line Spanish Placement Test provided by Tecnológico de Monterrey placing in Intermediate 2 level.
Credits: 6
Equivalency: IP96023 Intermediate Spanish 2
Study of grammar in greater depth in order to produce correct structures using all verb tenses. Correct use of pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, all "se" functions, and written accents. Verb tenses: Indicative: contrast using present/present progressive/informal future, past/imperfect, simple tenses/perfect tenses. Subjunctive: contrast using indicative/subjunctive, infinitive/subjunctive. Grammar knowledge linked to the comprehension and production of texts. Reading of newspaper articles and reports, essays, and short stories. Production of reports and essays. Students write and present possible situations of intermediate and advanced level of difficulty, present impromptu and formal speeches, report results from oral surveys.
Language of instruction: Spanish
IP3005 ADVANCED SPANISH 1
Requirements: To complete the on-line Spanish Placement Test provided by Tecnológico de Monterrey placing in Advanced 1 level.
Credits: 6
Equivalency: IP96024 Advanced Spanish 1
Spanish enunciation system. Indicative and subjunctive tenses. Object pronouns, value and use of infinitive, gerund and participle. Reflexive constructions, indefinite pronouns and adverbs. Prepositions and connecting words. Articles, adjectives and adverbs. Orthography and accent marks. Expressions for interacting. Idiom, proverbs and riddles. Articulation of Spanish sounds. Reading and writing techniques.
Language of instruction: Spanish
IP3006 ADVANCED SPANISH 2
Requirements: To complete the on-line Spanish Placement Test provided by Tecnológico de Monterrey placing in Advanced 2 level.
Credits: 6
Equivalency: IP96025 Advanced Spanish 2
Intensive advanced grammar for non-native speakers. Designed to give students confidence in their second language or foreign language performance. Improvement of the student's socio-linguistic and para-linguistic competition, as well as pronunciation. Simulations of unfamiliar linguistic situations. Vocabulary enrichment. Impromptu and formal speeches, debates, report from oral surveys.
Language of instruction: Spanish
IP1003 COMMUNICATION SKILLS DEVELOPMENT 1
Requirements: To complete the on-line Spanish Placement Test provided by Tecnológico de Monterrey placing in Basic level.
Credits: 3
Equivalency: IP96033 Communication Skills Development 1
Course designed to develop communicative skills, both oral and written. Students will listen, talk, write and read about daily situations, so they can be able to survive in a Spanish speaking community.
Language of instruction: Spanish
IP2006 COMMUNICATION SKILLS DEVELOPMENT 2
Requirements: To complete the on-line Spanish Placement Test provided by Tecnológico de Monterrey placing in Intermediate level.
Credits: 3
Equivalency: IP96034 Communication Skills Development 2
Designed for students with a basic knowledge of Spanish, who want to improve their communicative skills, both oral and written. Students will listen, talk, write and read about social and cultural topics taken from real material: radio, T.V., newspapers, etc. Vocabulary, structures and expressions for everyday situations. Description and comparison of people, attitudes and abilities.
Characterization of people and relations. Detailed description of interior and exterior spaces. Expression of intention, obligation,
suggestions, and advising. Temporary location. Narrating of present and past events. Expressing possibility and hypothesis.
Language of instruction: Spanish
IP3008 COMMUNICATION SKILLS DEVELOPMENT 3
Requirements: To complete the on-line Spanish Placement Test provided by Tecnológico de Monterrey placing in Advanced level.
Credits: 3
Equivalency: IP96035 Communication Skills Development 3
Designed for students with an advance command of the Spanish language who want to develop further their communicative skills, both oral and written. Students will listen, talk and read about social, political, economical and cultural topics taken from real material: radio, T.V. & newspapers. Use of vocabulary, structures and expressions for different situations at an advanced and superior level. Description, comparison and evaluation of characteristics about self and others. Expression of opinions, detailed descriptions and narratives. Expressions to suggest, to recommend, to order, to insist. Expressions to explain a personal and ideological stand. Indirect style. Indirect interrogation. Reliance on actions in indicative and subjunctive. Expressing feelings: affliction, lamentation, distrust.
Language of instruction: Spanish
IP1012 BUSINESS SPANISH 1
Requirements: To complete the on-line Spanish Placement Test provided by Tecnológico de Monterrey placing in Basic level.
Credits: 3
Equivalency: None, New course.
To understand phrases and vocabulary related with personal and labor topics. To read and find specific information in simple and everyday texts. To know and value Spanish speaking countries labor culture.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
IP2015 BUSINESS SPANISH 2
Requirements: To complete the on-line Spanish Placement Test provided by Tecnológico de Monterrey placing in Intermediate level.
Credits: 3
Equivalency: None, New course.
To know Spanish grammar structures to interact efficiently in several situations. To write and to comprehend complex texts. To write adequately essays and texts that contain opinions, summaries, and complains of different topics.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
IP3009 BUSINESS SPANISH 3
Requirements: To complete the on-line Spanish Placement Test provided by Tecnológico de Monterrey placing in Advanced level.
Credits: 3
Equivalency: IP96040 Spanish for Business
Intensive practice of Spanish using business terminology and vocabulary. Readings related to current business issues. Presentation of oral and written reports by students as well as simulations of situations that involve the correct use of socio-linguistic and para-linguistic elements.
Language of instruction: Spanish
IP96031 INTERMEDIATE COMPOSITION
Requirements: To complete the on-line Spanish Placement Test provided by Tecnológico de Monterrey placing in Intermediate level.
Credits: 3
Equivalency: None, New course.
Designed for students who want to develop their writing skills at an intermediate level. Creation of paragraphs and short texts by combining basic syntactic structures and the use of cohesive elements.
Language of instruction: Spanish
IP3007 COMPOSITION 3
Requirements: To complete the on-line Spanish Placement Test provided by Tecnológico de Monterrey placing in Advanced level.
Credits: 3
Equivalency: IP96032 Advanced Composition
Designed for students who want to improve their writing skills at a native-like level. Production of real texts by combining basic and complex syntactic structures, and the use of cohesive elements. Synonymous and antonymous. Denotative and connotative meaning. Accentuation rules. Syllable division. Subordinate links. Paragraph elements: main, secondary, and complementary ideas. Prefix and suffix in Spanish. Monosyllable words accentuation. Paragraph functions. Punctuation. Words written together and separated. Coordinated links that indicate cause, condition, purpose, and consequence. Post-writing: word use revision, tones, punctuation, text order, ideas and functions structure in paragraphs.
Language of instruction: Spanish
IP1008 SPANISH FOR TEACHERS
Requirements: To complete the on-line Spanish Placement Test provided by Tecnológico de Monterrey placing in Basic 2 level.
Credits: 6
Equivalency: None, New course.
To express ideas in a correct form in an oral and written form in situations among teachers and students in real situations or simulated.
Language of instruction: Spanish
IP2001 READING COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES
Requirements: To complete the on-line Spanish Placement Test provided by Tecnológico de Monterrey placing in Intermediate level.
Credits: 3
Equivalency: None, New course.
Verbal tenses (active and passive voice) and their enunciation quality. Discourse functions. Punctuation and orthographical signs. Different types of texts according to their form and function. Basic forms to organize information in different kind of texts. Finding the main ideas in a text. Different reading strategies. Characteristics of summaries, syntheses, surveys and commentaries.
Language of instruction: Spanish
IP3002 SPANISH FOR HERITAGE STUDENTS
Requirements: To complete the on-line Spanish Placement Test provided by Tecnológico de Monterrey placing in Advanced level. For Hispanic background students only.
Credits: 3
Equivalency: None, New course.
Discourse enunciation system of Spanish. Noun and its modifiers. Indicative and subjunctive tenses. Connecting and relating words. Indirect discourse and pronominalization. Word formation. Orthography and accent marks. Reading and writing techniques. Speech variations, language registers and idiomatic expressions.
Language of instruction: Spanish
IP3012 SPANISH SYNTAX
Requirements: To complete the on-line Spanish Placement Test provided by Tecnológico de Monterrey placing in Advanced level.
Credits: 3
Equivalency: IP96085 Spanish Syntax
Human language, grammar concept, Spanish grammar. Noun, its structure, noun modifiers: determiner and adjective. Personal
pronouns, form and position of personal pronouns, duplication, invariable lo, use of se. Verbs, morphology, lexical kinds, forms and moods of verbs. Relative pronouns and relative phrases.
Language of instruction: Spanish
IP3015 SUPERIOR SPANISH GRAMMAR
Requirements: To complete the on-line Spanish Placement Test provided by Tecnológico de Monterrey placing in Advanced 2 level and above.
Credits: 3
Equivalency: None, New course.
The verb and the verbal forms meanings. Logical and chronological order in the discourse. Expression of hypothesis and
suppositions in different verb times. Indicative verb form. Narration of non real, probable and desirable events and actions in different time contexts. Expression of commands. Subjunctive and imperative verb forms. Time sequence. Indirect style. Non personal forms. Verbal constructions. The noun, the adjective, the demonstratives, the possessives, the numerals, the indefinite pronouns, personal and relative pronouns. The adverb, the preposition, the conjunction, the interjection. Sentence components. Sentences classified by their structure. Sentences classified by their communicative value.
Language of instruction: Spanish
IP3011 TRANSLATION STRATEGIES
Requirements: To complete the on-line Spanish Placement Test provided by Tecnológico de Monterrey placing in Advanced 2 level and above.
Credits: 3
Equivalency: None, New course.
Historical overview of functionalist approach. Differentiating linguistic loan and transfer, literal and dynamic translation, translation and interpretation. The scoops and action theories. Cognates, false cognates and anglicism. Language registers and dialectal variations. Idioms and expressions. Characteristics of different kinds of texts and text analysis techniques. Strategies for text translation. Language functions, functional typology of translations. Translation problems and difficulties. Techniques for revision of translations, use of dictionary and creation of glossaries.
Language of instruction: Spanish
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