Preparation for DELE A2

Duration: 30 hours | Dates: 05/18/2020 - 06/07/2020Monday and Wednesday 10:00-12:00 pm(Beginning level)Teacher: Evelyn Moreland.Price: 450 $Through this course students will learn strategies that allow them topractice the DELE A2 exam technique and all the language skillsnecessary to pass it. It is especially aimed at all those people who areinterested in obtaining Spanish citizenship.

Preparation for DELE C1 Duration: 30 hours | Dates: 05/18/2020 - 07/06/2020Monday and Wednesday 10:00-12:00 pm(Advanced level) Teacher: Desiré Ramírez Urbaneja. Price: 450 $Through this course students will learn strategies that will allow them topractice the DELE C1 exam technique and all the language skills necessary topass it. It is especially aimed at all those people who are interested inbecoming ELE (Spanish as a Foreign Language)teachers, since it is one of therequirements to work as an ELE (Spanish as a Foreign Language) teacher.

Conversation Courses

Duration: 15 hours | Dates:05/23/2020 - 06/20/2020Saturdays  9:00-12:00 pm (intermediate/advanced level)Teacher: Kerry Ruibal. Price: 225 $Students will improve theirspeaking skills and become moreproficient in Spanish. Students willdiscuss current events, brainstormto solve problems, participate inrole-plays, and preparepresentations to developvocabulary, reinforce grammaticalstructures, and utilize newexpressions and colloquialisms.Except from movies and news clipswill be used as springboards fordiscussion.

Spanish course through songs

Duration: 20 hours | Dates: 05/22/2020 - 07/24/2020Friday 4:00-6:00 pm(Intermediate / advanced level)Teacher: Laura Cruz. Price: 300 $In this course you will learn basic and intermediate lexicon andstructures through the playful element: songs. Therefore, all the songswill be a pretext to learn inductively and learn Spanish in a fun way.

Spanish Literature Course: The 98th Generation

Duration: 30 hours. Dates: 05/19/2020 - 07/07/2020. Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:00-11:00 am(Nivel intermediate/advanced level) Teacher: Luis Alberto Cárdenas. Price: 450 $During this course, we will show an overview of Spanish literature fromthe end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th through ahistorical reflection and the reading of the most representativeauthors' works of the 98th Generation as: Ángel Canivet: Ideariumespañol (1897); Pío Baroja: novel Zalacaín el aventurero (1908) and ElNocturno del hermano Beltrán (1929); Ramiro de Maeztu: essayDefensa de la Hispanidad (1931-1934); Miguel de Unamuno: short novelSan Manuel Bueno Mártir (1931), stories and poetry, Poetry of AntonioMachado: Soledades (1907) and Campos de Castilla (1912); RamónMaríadel Valle-Inclán: stories and poems between other.

Spanish and Latin American food:

Sincretismo de Sabor

Duration: 30 hours | Dates:05/19/2020 - 07/07/2020 Tuesday and Thursday 5:00-7:00 pm(Intermediate level) Teachers: Liset Trigo and Laura CruzPrice: 450 $In this course students will learnabout Hispanic heritage and itstraditional flavors; Latin Americanrecipes with Spanish ingredients andthe origin and history of the foodexchange between Spain and LatinAmerica. To sweeten the course,delicious desserts from both worldswill also be presented.

Book Club:

Durantion: 20 hours | Dates: 05/22/2020 - 07/24/2020Fridays 4:00-6:00 pm (intermediate/advanced level)Teacher: Carrie Ruibal Price: 300 $In this course students will read at home and then discuss in class aselection of essays, short stories or novels by well-known writerschosen by the students and the teacher. Students will improve theirlanguage skills (specially their reading comprehension and their oralexpression skills). There will be video conferences with the authors ofseveral books.

The Mexican Cinema

Duration: 30 hours | Dates: 05/18/2020 - 07/07/2020 Mondays and Wednesdays 6:00-8:00 pm(intermediate/advanced level) Teacher: Frida Sánchez Price: 450 $Through this course we will offer films in the era of the Gold, to thefiction film that addressed the most varied genres as the rancheracomedy, the wrestlers, rumba or “ficheras” films. The journey that weundertake on the various edges of Mexican cinema (Alfonso Cuarón,Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro Gutiérrez Iñarritú y Amat Escalante)guide us, no doubt, to the understanding of an important fragment ofthe meaning of political thought, artistic, social and industrialdevelopment of the Mexican culture and the construction ofpredictions about new filmic possibilities that loom in the most recentnational movies.

Stories from New Mexico and northern Mexico (for students of Spanish

heritage language and advanced level foreign students)

Duration: 30 hours | Dates: 05/19/2020 - 07/07/2020Tuesdays and Thursdays 6:00-8:00 pm(intermediate/advanced level) Teachers: Frida Sánchez y Luis Alberto Cárdenas Price: 450 $This course offers the student a broad overview of Mexican and New Mexicansociety and culture through legends and stories that have been transmittedmostly orally (Apaches, Navajo pueblos, Basaseachi Casacade and Raramuri,among others). This will help the student to know the history, society, politics,education, customs, traditions and other manifestations of the moral andmaterial life of the current state of New Mexico and northern Mexico.

Legends in the Hispanic World

Duration: 30 hours |Dates: 18/05/2020 - 06/07/2020 Mondays and Wednesdays 10:00-12:00 pm (intermediate/advanced level) Teacher: Luz Adriana Montoya Price: 450 $Students will read a selection of legends (leyendas)from different countries in Latin America. Through reading, classdiscussion, and different writing activities, students will understand theLatino culture during oral tradition in the Hispanic world. In the end,students will improve their language and writing skills as they becomefamiliar with and identify with Latino cultural traditions in the Spanishlanguage.

The history of Latin American music

Duration: 20 hours | Dates: 05/18/2020 -17/06/2020 Monday and Wednesday 5:00-6:00 pm (intermediate / advanced level)Teachers: Eva García and PabloRodriguezPrice: 300 $Through this course, students will havethe opportunity to learn about the historyof Latin American music by taking a tourof the one that has most influenced notonly Latin American but also the entireworld, such as: bachata, cumbia,merengue, el Mexican Folkloric dance,the old trova, tango, batucada, pasodoble, danzón, contradanza, ranchera,salsa, jazz and chachacha, amongothers.

Hispano-American poetry

Duration: 20 hours | Dates: 05/18/2020 - 06/17/2020 Monday and Wednesday 2:00-4:00 pm(intermediate / advanced level)Teacher: Mary SalinasPrice: $ 300 Through this course students will have the opportunity to read andanalyze the Spanish-American poetic production of Modernism,Postmodernism, Vanguard through contemporary poets such as:Gonzales Prada, José Marti Gonzales Prada, Julián del Casal, JoséAsunción Silva, Rubén Darío, Delmira Agustini, Leopoldo Lugones,Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda among others.

Flamenco course

Duration: 20 hours | Dates:05/19/2020 - 06/18/2020 Tuesday and Thursday 6:00-7:00 pm (intermediate / advanced level)Teacher: Marisol A. MorenoIn this course the student will learn inSpanish the technique andchoreography for a flamenco dancecalled alegrías. In this course, thestudent will be able to acquire theknowledge of markings, strokes, turnsand taps in the beat of alegrías.

Public speaking and communication workshop

Duration: 20 hours | Dates: 05/18/2020 - 06/17/2020 Monday and Wednesday 5:00-6:00 pm (intermediate / advanced level)Teacher: David Páez  Price: 300 $The objective of this course is to show techniques that allow to carryout an effective oratory through speech and writing. Strategies ofphonetics, breathing, gestural language, space management, amongother aspects will be taken into account to achieve through theSpanish language.

Group dynamics workshop in the classroom (for Spanish foreign

language teachers)

Duration: 20 hours | Dates: 05/18/2020 - 06/17/2020Monday and Wednesday 5:00-6:00 pm (advanced level)Teacher: Marisol A. Moreno Price: 300 $This course is aimed at teachers who want to improve theirinterpersonal and intrapersonal communication with their students.Through this course, it will be analyzed what emotional intelligence is,how to make decisions in the classroom, how to introducecollaborative learning, taking into account the components:behavioral, cognitive, physiological and emotional of the student.

Storytelling in Spanish for

children (from 1 to

4/5 years)

Duration: 15 hours | Dates:08/22/2020 - 08/28/2020 Friday 10:00-11:00 am Teacher: Evelyn Moreland Price: 225 $Children will have the opportunityto listen to stories full of emotionand interaction in Spanish that willhelp them become familiar withSpanish and the culture ofHispanic American children'sstories.