SPANISH LANGUAGE: ADVANCED COURSE
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- LAURA RODRIGUEZ FERNANDEZ
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Annualità Singola
- SSD
- L-LIN/07
Training objectives
- The aim of the course is, on one hand, for students to reach proficiency of Spanish language (C2), and to increase their written and oral expressive resources. On the other hand, the course aims to get students to know the debates around Spanish language that have taken place throughout its history. At the end of the course, students will understand how the evolution of Spanish has been accompanied by processes that have conditioned its meaning in the world and its perception by speakers. They will know some of the most representative texts of historical controviersies around the language and will have critical and linguistic tools to reason and discuss in Spanish the problems they pose.
Prerequisites
- Having passed the 1st year “Lingua Spagnola” exam.
Course programme
- A chronological series of texts covering debates on Spanish language will be presented, ranging from the addressing of the "language question" by Alfonso X el Sabio to the current discussion on inclusive language. We will discusse issues such as language standardization, language policies in Spanish-speaking territories, the articulation between language and nation, the place that the linguistic question has occupied in the imperial expansion of the Hispanic Monarchy or the historical attitudes towards the teaching of Spanish. We will study the role that institutions such as the RAE and the Spanish-language academies or the Instituto Cervantes, as well as figures such as Andrés Bello, Ramón Menéndez Pidal or Miguel de Unamuno and social movements like feminism have played in the debate on Spanish.
Didactic methods
- The lessons will be held in-person and provide for the participation of students in the analysis and discussion of the texts around some conceptual nodes.
Further information and materials will be made accessible through Google Classroom (access code: evxvnja) Learning assessment procedures
- The exam will consist of a written test. The test will be designed to assess the ability to recognize, contextualize and argue in Spanish about the issues addressed during the course. It will include similar proposals and texts to those studied.
Reference texts
- Required readings, further bibliography for each topic and additional information and materials will be made available at Google Clasroom.
