Courses

Arts

Arte Argentino Contemporáneo

After a brief overview of the main artistic movements of the 19th century, this course goes on to consider the socio-cultural changes occurring roughly between 1900 and 1945. These were manifested both in art - the Painters of the People, the Paris Group, Cubism, Surrealism, Concrete Art - and in architecture: Art Nouveau, Neocolonialism, Art Deco, Rationalism and Monumentalism. The euphoria and rebellion of the 1960s found their modes of expression in Pop Art and abstraction, the New Figuration Movement, Participatory Art, Brutalism, Formalism, the International Style and Casablanquismo. The return to democracy in Argentina in 1983 coincides with the advent of Postmodernism, Ecological Art, Postfiguration, Digital Art, Naive Art, Regionalism and Technological Determinism. Classes will/can be supplemented with visits to the many museums and urban spaces that Buenos Aires has to offer. This course is taught in Spanish.

• Subject: Arts
• Course Level: 300
• Language: Spanish
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Spanish 300 or greater

Tango, la expresión de Buenos Aires

This course provides a theoretical and practical introduction to tango. The theory classes present the historical and social contexts in which tango developed: its origins as a low life dance in Buenos Aires in the late 19th century; its growing respectability in the 1920s with Gardel, who popularized the dance abroad on film; and the Golden Age of tango from about 1935 to 1952, coinciding with that of radio and cinema, after which tango splits into various into movements and its popularity declines. Students are also introduced to Astor Piazzolla and the tango as concert music. Finally, the course examines Argentine tango-rock fusion and the new international tango boom coinciding with democracy and globalization. In the practical classes, which also count towards their final grade, students learn to dance tango.

• Subject: Arts
• Course Level: 300
• Language: Spanish
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Business

Economía Social en Latinoamérica

Environmentally, technologically, economically and culturally, we live in an interconnected world where traditional approaches to business no longer work. Environmental problems and social issues are becoming increasingly important. Notions of sustainable development and fair trade are forcing companies to radically rethink their business strategies. New structures and beliefs and a redistribution of existing resources are required to build sustainable businesses. Here, the work of C.K. Prahalad and Stuart Hart has been ground-breaking: added values, such as transparency and mutual agreements, are just part of a new vision of business. This course is taught in Spanish.

• Subject: Business
• Course Level: 300
• Language: Spanish
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 45
• Prerequisites: Spanish 300 or greater

International Business

The course raises critical questions about the opportunities and challenges that companies and entrepreneurs encounter when doing business in the Southern Cone countries of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. We begin by introducing the general political, legal, socio-economic context in which international business takes place in the region. Once we have looked at the big picture, we focus on the controllable and uncontrollable forces in the Southern Cone business environment. A structured approach encourages well-informed discussions from which students can build their own understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of doing business in this part of the world. As the course progresses, students are expected to develop basic interdisciplinary skills for business decision-making. By the end of the course, students will have gained valuable insights on the opportunities that Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay offer and will be ready to conduct research and access first hand information about Southern markets.

• Subject: Business
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None, though history of Latin America is recommend

Economics

Argentine Economy

Argentina’s economy is best understood within the context of Latin American economic history. This course includes topics such as the Argentine economy before and after 1930; economic growth and structure; external terms of exchange between agricultural exports and imported industrial goods; foreign currency shortages; structural changes and the process of industrialization; import substitution; relative prices; capital formation; and economic cycles. Inflation, devaluations, recessions and stabilization programs, and hyperinflation will also be discussed. Finally, the course will consider Argentina’s Convertibility Law - a currency board implemented throughout the 1990s – and more recent trends in inflation, economic growth and unemployment.

• Subject: Economics
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Econ 101

Historia Económica Argentina

The course provides an overview of Argentine economic history from the so-called Generation of '80 (the governing elite from 1880 to 1916) to the current day. The story begins with the 19th century agricultural export economy, the national banks, an unconvertible currency and the various adjustments to this model over time until the impact of two World Wars leads to a process of import substitution. The global crisis of 1930 and its economic and financial consequences are examined, as well as Peron’s first and second presidencies (1946-55) and the role of the state in Peron’s economic development model. The role of international lending organizations in the 1960s and 1970s is discussed together with the economic policies of the military government between 1976 and 1983, and the Austral, Primavera and Convertibility plans implemented after the country’s return to democracy. The course concludes with an analysis of the current economic situation and projections for the twenty-first century.

• Subject: Economics
• Course Level: 300
• Language: Spanish
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Microeconomics

Historia económica de Latinoamérica

The course examines the development of the economies of Latin America from the late nineteenth century to the present day. A comparative approach is adopted and special attention is given to the major economies of the Northern and Southern Cones of Latin America (Venezuela, Brazil, Chile and Argentina). The course also examines the economic structures of Latin America - its rural (1870 -1930) and industrial (1929-1950) economy and the external and internal conditions leading to a period of relative stability (1960-1970) and mounting foreign debt. It highlights the role of the International Monetary Fund’s austerity plans In the 1980s and the social crises that followed. It also looks at the rise of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) in the 1990s, and their results in terms of output growth, as well as neo-liberal macroeconomic adjustment and labor market flexibility. The 21st century under the leadership of Brazil, offers new horizons in which Latin America looks set to consolidate a united bloc. It has already strengthened the democracies and economies of the region with the creation of UNASUR. The role of the IMF, the reduction of foreign debt, the redistribution of wealth, employee participation in profits and media relations with the government are just some of the debates that we will be exploring.

• Subject: Economics
• Course Level: 300
• Language: Spanish
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Latinoamérica y la Economía Global

This course provides an overview of international economic relations with an emphasis on Argentina and Latin America. It discusses the internal and external determinants of economies of less developed countries in general and Latin American countries in particular within the "intra-capitalist" framework of the global economy. We study the general principles applicable to economic and social development and economic integration in Latin America. MERCOSUR, AC-4, G-3, NAFTA, and future FTAA agreements are described in relation to other important global institutions such as the EU, NAFTA, and Asia-Pacific. The program promotes discussion of education for development, human resources training, transfer of technology, economy and the environment. The course concludes with a survey of Latin America the twenty-first century in the current international context of economic globalization.

• Subject: Economics
• Course Level: 400
• Language: Spanish
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Macroeconomics

Política Económica Argentina

This course looks at two hundred years of Argentine economic policy within an international context. Different periods are distinguished and short-term variables are identified and compared with those from Latin America and other parts of the world. The economic plans applied under different presidents are discussed, together with implicit or explicit economic diagnoses, actions and results. The course concludes with an analysis of national and international scenarios and analyzes the new political and economic landscape after the crisis of 2001-2002 and the governments of Presidents Néstor and Cristina Kirchner.

• Subject: Economics
• Course Level: 300
• Language: Spanish
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

English and Literature

Argentine Literature

This course approaches Argentine cultural history through a close reading of novels and short stories. A major theme of the course is how the notion of civilization that guided nation-building narratives in the nineteenth century remained central to twentieth century fiction. The impact of immigration policies, the rise and fall of Peronism, Eva Peron’s political and cultural legacy, the Dirty War and the role of fiction in shaping social memory are just some of the topics that are considered. By the end of the course, students will have a general picture of the historical and cultural contexts in which Argentine fiction has been produced and an understanding of the close links between this country’s history, politics and literature.

• Subject: English and Literature
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: History of Latin America is recomended

Jorge Luis Borges: Visions of Culture and Knowledge

Borges’ vision of the world as a Library of Babel and Aleph anticipated the information age and the development of the Internet by several decades. However, although Borges can be regarded as the least representative Latin American writer, not all his fictions address universal problems. This course shows how many of his short stories, essays and poems are embedded in and have contributed to the Latin American and Argentine literary traditions. The course also considers Borges’ precursors (Poe, Marcel Schwob and Kafka) and his followers (Donald Barthelme, Leonardo Sciascia, Danilo Kis and Umberto Eco, among others). Finally, it looks at Borges’ presence in visual culture: film, architecture and art.

• Subject: English and Literature
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: History of Latin America is recomended

Literatura Argentina

The course examines Argentine literature starting with its role in the construction of national identity in the 19th century. Esteban Echeverría’s short story "The Slaughterhouse", written in 1839 but not published until 1871, illustrates the conflict between gauchos, Indians and government. However, it is José Hernández’s “Martín Fierro” (1872), an epic poem depicting the plight of the all-but-vanished gaucho minority, which is to become problematic when appropriated by the literary establishment. The course also looks at the literary avant-garde of the twenties (Oliverio Girondo, Alfonsina Storni, Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Arlt) and its relationship with the city of Buenos Aires, as well as literary testimonies of the 1976-1983 military dictatorship in Argentina and discusses the place of literature in the national memory. Finally, we consider some new literary phenomena: blogs, virtual publications, and the problem of copyright in the digital age. This course is taught in Spanish.

• Subject: English and Literature
• Course Level: 300
• Language: Spanish
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Spanish 300 or greater

Film and Media Studies

Cine Latinoamericano

This course focuses on aspects of history and culture as presented in recent Argentine and Latin American cinema. Through a close study of the films themselves as well as related texts (interviews, reviews, essays, testimonials, literature, newspapers, comics), the course explores the aesthetic approaches used to reflect on society and social problems. Assignments help students to develop reading and writing skills in Spanish while class discussions help students to sharpen their oral skills. This course is taught in Spanish.

• Subject: Film and Media Studies
• Course Level: 300
• Language: Spanish
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Spanish 300 or greater

History

Historia Latinoamericana Siglo XX

This course provides an overview of Latin American history since independence. It describes how Spain’s colonies became nation states and how these new republics gradually consolidated their political, social and economic systems. It outlines the ideas and careers of their founding fathers, as well as the major political figures of the twentieth century. In particular, it compares the socio-political developments of the 1940s and 1950s (e.g. under Getulio Vargas in Brazil, Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala and Juan D. Perón in Argentina). It also examines the causes and consequences of the many military coups in the region, together with the eventual return to democracy. Finally, the program analyzes political changes in Latin America since the end of the Cold War and the region’s current situation in the 21st century. This course is taught in Spanish.

• Subject: History
• Course Level: 300
• Language: Spanish
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Spanish 300 or greater

History of Latin America

This course traces 200 years of Latin American history from independence from colonial rule to the present day. It examines the complex ethnic and cultural influences that have shaped various Latin American societies, including the emergence of mass society in the twentieth century, and the key role of the “masses” as political actors in the Mexican, “Peronist” and Cuban revolutions. The course also considers the responsibility of the military juntas in state terrorism and the complex processes of healing and cultural memory in Uruguay, Chile and Argentina.

• Subject: History
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: World History 101

Narrativas de lo monstruoso en Latinoamérica

In Abnormal: Lectures at the College de France (1974-1975), Michel Foucault traces a "genealogy of the abnormal" based on the relationship between knowledge, power and society and social mechanisms of identification, distance, inclusion and exclusion. On this course we will explore one of the most common figures of abnormality, the human monster, together with violence, a violence shaped by both social and natural laws. This course takes students on a journey through the different representations in Latin American literary and film narrative of the human monster and other marginal figures such as criminals, fallen women, rebels, and the strange and unclassifiable. Texts will include works by Sarmiento, Borges and Bioy Casares, Rubén Darío, Horacio Quiroga, Leopoldo Lugones, Gabriel García Márquez, Roberto Bolaño and Silvina Ocampo. There will also be movies directed by Leonardo Favio, Luis Buñuel, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Héctor Babenco and Arturo Ripstein showing the relationship between the monstrous “other” and social and political power as one of discipline, control and standardization.

• Subject: History
• Course Level: 400
• Language: Spanish
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: History

US-Latin America Relations

This course begins by examining U. S. and Latin American relations from the Wars of Independence and the emergence of Latin America’s nation-states to U. S. expansion southwards at the beginning of the 20th century. However, the 19th century is discussed mainly to shed light on the processes of policy formation that occurred as the U.S. emerged a world power during the 20th century. The bulk of the course thus concentrates on the impact of the two World Wars, the Cold War and the current post-Cold War transition. The course highlights specific moments and crises, as well as the major figures that shaped inter-American relations and some lesser-known actors.

• Subject: History
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: History of the United States

Literature

Literatura Latinoamericana

This course explores Latin American literature from pre-Columbian times to the present. The prescribed texts include letters, poems, short stories, critical articles and novels by acclaimed authors such as Ruben Dario, Juan Rulfo, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Pablo Neruda, Elena Poniatowska, César Huidobro and Roberto Bolaños. Many of them belonged to the Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s, when the Latin American novel became known throughout the world. But the course also considers original Latin American genres, such as testimonial narrative. The course examines literary responses to complex cultural, social and historical problems: conquest, nation building and national identity formation; acculturation, avant-gardism, nationalism and cosmopolitanism; or populism and authoritarianism.

• Subject: Literature
• Course Level: 300
• Language: 300
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Political Science

Pensamiento Político Latinoamericano

This course explores the different traditions of political thought in Latin America from the 19th century to the present day. It considers the foundational influence of European thought in Latin America in terms of inspiration, assimilation and re-creation. The course is organized around the following topics: Contractualism (Mariano Moreno) and Republicanism (Simón Bolívar), the task of nation building (Domingo F. Sarmiento, Juan Bautista Alberdi and José Martí); the parallel with the United States (José Martí), the development of Latin American socialism and its link with the problem of indigenous land (José Carlos Mariátegui and Victor Haya de la Torre) development and dependency theories (Raul Prebisch, Fernando Cardoso and Enzo Faletto), Latin American populist thinking (Jauretche Arturo and Ernesto Laclau), liberation theology (Gutiérrez) and late twentieth-century neo-liberal thinking (de Soto).

• Subject: Political Science
• Course Level: 300
• Language: Spanish
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Political & Social Change

This course focuses on national identity in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela resulting from political and social change. Students are encouraged to understand the political systems and parties in each country from a historical perspective. Present-day social actors and protest movements are similarly contextualized within ongoing struggles between the state and various forces in society. The course also considers collective memories of the repression inflicted by successive military dictatorships in some of these countries and the role of citizenship and institutions in contemporary democracies.

• Subject: Political Science
• Course Level: 300
• Language: English
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: History of the United States

Sistemas Políticos: Los Populismos Latinoamericanos

After the breakdown of the so-called ‘colonial pact’, new political elites imposed variations of the available organizational model on their societies. This republican, representative, and often federal model had emerged from the American War of Independence and the French Revolution. However, the contradiction between an archaic social and cultural structure and a modernizing political project was to produce political tensions in Latin America. One result of all this was the emergence of a vague and indeterminate political movement known as populism in the twentieth century. This seminar course redefines the populist phenomenon in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico as a "popular national policy" with elements common to all of Latin America. This course is taught in Spanish.

• Subject: Political Science
• Course Level: 300
• Language: Spanish
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Spanish 300 or greater

Social Science

Argentina, Sociedad Abierta

This course examines key moments of transformation in Argentine society. The story begins with Argentina’s “Golden Age” when an agricultural export-led economy made it one of the richest countries in the world. Modern Argentina emerged in the years before the First World War through farming, technological innovation, foreign capital and massive European immigration. At the same time, immigration (from abroad and from the countryside) transformed Buenos Aires into a city of contrasts. However, the main focus of the course is on modern Argentina and the political, urban and cultural transformations arising out of Peronism. The course also explores resistance to repression under a series of military governments, the emergence of urban guerrillas and the breakdown of law and order leading to the military dictatorship of 1976-1983. Lastly, it examines new forms of social participation in the 21st Century: the recuperated factories and cooperatives and unemployed workers.

• Subject: Social Science
• Course Level: 300
• Language: Spanish
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Estudios Culturales Argentinos

This course outlines the emergence of Argentina as a distinctive social, economic and political way of being. It also introduces the country’s regional cultures with their individual blends of Hispanic and indigenous native elements, showing that Argentina is much more than Buenos Aires. The mate tradition and the emblematic figure of the gaucho are discussed in detail together with traditional folk music and dancing. Then there is the impact of immigration on national identity, which was also to enrich the arts, literature, music and dance. Yet another focus of the course is on urban identity, including a case study of Buenos Aires. Finally we discuss the role played by tango as a symbol of passion in the River Plate region.

• Subject: Social Science
• Course Level: 300
• Language: Spanish
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos

This course examines aspects of Argentine and Latin American culture with an emphasis on popular culture both written and visual. Taking its primary material from literature, newspapers, mural paintings and photographs, feature and documentary films, the course considers the notion of culture within a broad perspective, including the distinction between “high” and “low” culture. Students will improve their speaking and writing, as well as their listening and reading skills in Spanish as they achieve a deeper understanding of contemporary Latin American culture.

• Subject: Social Science
• Course Level: 200
• Language: Spanish
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Estudios de género en Latinoamérica

For historical, political and cultural reasons Gender Studies in Argentina began with controversies over sexual ambiguities and problems of genital ambiguity. Drawing on psychoanalysis and interdisciplinary studies as well as gender studies, this seminar explains the conceptual differences between sex, gender and sexual identities. Students are encouraged to explore old and new ways of addressing gender issues. The myths and customs of pre-Columbian cultures are introduced through ethnographic documents, anthropological accounts and films of archaeological discoveries. The process by which modern ideas and myths of masculinity have been formed is explored through anthropological approaches to such Argentine passions as football and tango. Current paradigms of womanhood, manhood and variations of love in men and women are questioned through an interesting selection of films, comic strips and journalistic records, as well as through short stories and novels by Latin American writers.

• Subject: Social Science
• Course Level: 400
• Language: Spanish
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Psychology

Ética

This course presents some of the most important ideas in the history of Western ethics with the aim of developing a critical approach to the human condition based on notions of universal equality and political freedom. To this end, different hermeneutic approaches are used to analyze and interpret the ethical content of the different texts selected within the historical and cultural contexts in which they were originally created and received.

• Subject: Social Science
• Course Level: 300
• Language: Spanish
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Ficiones Urbanas: las Ciudades Latinoamericanas

Taking Buenos Aires as a model, this seminar course deals with representations of Latin American cities from the nineteenth century to the present day. Over the past two hundred years, Buenos Aires has behaved almost like a nation, reacting against internal and external threats (farmers, immigration, and progress) and the fantasies of would-be Europeans and Latin Americanists alike. From The Great Village (La gran aldea, 1884) by Lucio V. López to The Woman who murdered Princess Diana (La asesina de Lady Di, 2005) by Alejandro Lopez, Buenos Aires has been an object of desire and rejection. Literature, poetry, film, music, photography and painting have all helped to shape, explain, mystify, condense, deny or encourage the city’s identity. We will study certain urban types - the dandies, tangueros, knife-fighters, immigrants, professionals and militants that arose in response to cultural adjustments. Finally, the course reflects on the urban experience of modernity in other Latin American cities which, like Buenos Aires, sometimes think of themselves as lying on the periphery of global culture and needing to construct an identity for themselves on the edge of the world.

• Subject: Social Science
• Course Level: 400
• Language: Spanish
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: History

Sociedades Latinoamericanas: los Movimientos

Taking as a starting point the ideas of Zygmunt Bauman, Noam Chomsky, Gilles Lipovesky and Karl Marx, this course explores social power in Latin America. Lack of appropriate public policies, failure of state-owned industries, military coups, and globalization are some of the problems that Latin America has confronted in recent years. They are the backdrop against which various political and revolutionary movements have developed: peasants’ and urban workers’ associations, ethnic groups, youth groups, human rights associations and environmental groups, etc. Topics include the “Landless Workers” of Brazil; the “recovered factories” movement in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Venezuela; the Zapatistas in Chiapas, the "Cochabamba Water Wars" in Bolivia, human rights and indigenous rights movements in Argentina and students in Chile, illustrating just some of the social movements in Latin America’s democratic societies currently struggling for representation. However, expressions of discontent and anger are nothing new. Latin America has a long tradition of revolutionary social movements we need to look at in order to understand the present. The course also encourages comparisons with current social movements in developed countries.

• Subject: Social Science
• Course Level: 400
• Language: Spanish
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Psychology

Spanish

Spanish Level 1

Upon completion of Level 1 Panroamers should have firm understanding of: 

Functions
. Introducing himself and others
. Interchanging personal information
. Speaking of and describing his or her family
. Giving simple instructions
. Identifying objects
. Describing places
. Interchanging place information 
. Asking and telling the time
. Making future plans

Grammar
. Phonetics
. Personal pronouns, possessive adjectives
. Regular and Irregular verbs in the Present Mood
. “Estar” + adjectives
. “Estar” + gerunds
. Direct and indirect object pronouns
. Infinitive and Gerund expressions
. Going to Future
. Number and Gender
. Articles
. The introduction of the imperative
. “Hace” + the weather
. The verb “haber”: hay -there is- 
. Prepositions for verbs of movement and place
. The introduction of reflexive verbs
. “Tener” + que Ej.: tener frío to be as in –to be cold

• Subject: Spanish
• Course Level: 100
• Language: Spanish
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: None

Spanish Level 2

Upon completion of Level 2 Panroamers should have a firm understanding of:

Functions
. Describing people
. Speaking in detail about habitual actions
. Showing interest in the actions of others
. Criticizing and making compliments
. Retelling specific facts in the past

Grammar
. Qualifying adjectives, superlatives, direct object, qué y cuál –what and which
. Verbs in the present tense
. Regular Perfect Preterit 
. Irregular verbs in the Perfect Preterit “estar, ir, dar, poder, venir, decir”
. Imperfect Preterit
. Time adverbs: yesterday, today, tomorrow

• Subject: Spanish
• Course Level: 200
• Language: Spanish
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: 100

Spanish Level 3

Upon completion of Level 3 Panroamers should have firm understanding of: 

Functions
. Job Interviewing and application skills 
. Describing tasks
. Retelling experiences
. Inviting, accepting or rejecting invitations
. Giving Advice and recommending

Grammar
. The use of the impersonal se
. Uses of estar + gerund
. Possessives
. The simple past, irregular forms
. The Past Perfect
. Use of possessive pronouns: double substitution.
. Indirect Speech
. Imperative Mood
. Prepositions: values of por -by- de-of-, en-in.
. Recommending and giving instructions with impersonal forms.
. The use of possessives with Imperative Mood verbs

• Subject: Spanish
• Course Level: 300
• Language: Spanish
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: Spanish 200

Spanish Level 4

Upon completion of Level 4 Panroamers should have firm understanding of:

Functions
. Expressing wishes, emotions, likes and preferences. Stating agreement and disagreement.
. Expressing doubt
. Expressing wishes.
. Controlling discussions
. Making a point 

Grammar
. The Subjunctive
. Querer, desear, esperar -wish, desire, hope (+ que + Subjuntivo): “Quiero que sepas...
. Sentir-feel- , lamentar –to regret-, agradecer, alegrase (de) – to be happy with-, tener miedo (de) –to e afraid of
. Requests
. The diminutive form
. The use of the verb “gustar”
. The use of the Subjunctive Mood Infinitive y Past Imperfect 
. Verb Tenses to state agreement and disagreement. “Creo que...I believe that….
“Estoy en total desacuerdo – I completely disagree..., etc.

• Subject: Spanish
• Course Level: 400
• Language: Spanish
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: 300

Spanish Level 5

Upon completion of Level 5 Panroamers should have firm understanding of:

Functions
. Describing people
. Describing personality
. Retelling stories: chronology, historical accounts, anecdotes, dreams, short stories.
. Giving advice and stating opinions
. Defining and giving instructions
. Expressing agreement and disagreement
. Expressing the unreal past and probability

Grammar
. The use of ser y estar –to be-
. Word Formation
. Circumlocutions or Periphrastic verbal structures
. Correcting untrue information. 
. Time relationships among actions.
. Telling time and dates
. The Subjunctive. The Conditional
. The uses of the subjunctive in relative, time and final clauses.
. Giving orders
. Uses of verbal tenses in hypothesis

• Subject: Spanish
• Course Level: 500
• Language: Spanish
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: 400

Spanish Level 6

Upon completion of Level 6 Panroamers should have firm understanding of: 

Functions 
. Repeating, retelling and summarizing what is said
. Giving advice and expressing wishes, likes and feelings
. Analyzing and writing news
. Describing and speculating in abstract
. Expressing conditions and making a point
. Retelling

Grammar
. Transformations in verb tenses as to communicative situation changes. Transformation of other elements.
. Resources when giving advice. The subjunctive in noun phrases.
. Cause and opposition discourse connectors
. The passive voice. The gerund and the participle.
. Word Formation
. Resources to giving opinions.
. Conditionals and concessive sentences
. Time relationship and logical relationship

• Subject: Spanish
• Course Level: 600
• Language: Spanish
• Contact Hours: 60
• Recommended Credits: 4
• Prerequisites: 500