Undergraduate Course: Foundation Spanish Language 1 (ELCH07015)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | A course for beginners with no previous knowledge of Spanish, designed to give absolute beginners a basic, working knowledge of spoken and written Spanish. The course is not suitable for students with previous knowledge of Spanish.
All students take all elements of assessment including the examination.
There is an identical course (Foundation Spanish Language 1 - ELCH07011) which runs in the first semester.
On successful completion of the course students will have the option of taking Foundation Spanish Language 2 - (ELCH07010) in Semester 1 or Foundation Spanish Language 2 (ELCH07014) in Semester 2, both 20 credits, which follow on from Foundation Spanish Language 1. |
| Course description |
Not entered
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | Students MUST NOT also be taking
Foundation Spanish Language 1 (ELCH07011)
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Other requirements | No previous knowledge of Spanish is required. |
| Additional Costs | A course book, A bilingual dictionary |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
Basic knowledge of Spanish in a wide variety of situations with the aim to develop learner's confidence in language learning, understanding and responding to others in appropriate situations.
All units are topic-based and introduce a fundamental aspect of structure. Each unit is subdivided into several, stand-alone sections allowing the main topic to be developed and diversified, focusing on many aspects of everyday life and allowing the presentation of subsidiary grammatical items and lexical areas.
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Additional Information
| Course URL |
http://www.llc.ed.ac.uk/open-languages |
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Special Arrangements |
This course is open to all students as a credit bearing course, or over and above their full credit load, as a non credit bearing course. DELC students may only take this course if it over and above their full credit load, as a non credit bearing course. |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
IMPORTANT: Students must attend pairs of classes. See Web Timetable 2014/2015.
Please note: this course will not appear on students' personalised timetable. Group Sign-up sheets will be available on LEARN after the first class meeting.
Groups have a limited quota, if a group reaches capacity, you will need to choose another. Students joining the course after the first class meeting with timetable restrictions on which group they can join must contact the course secretary before enrolling to confirm availability in the required group.
Teaching classes will start in the second week of the semester.
Please note that it is not possible to audit this course. |
| Keywords | OLFSPAN1SEM2 |
Contacts
| Course organiser | |
Course secretary | Miss Helene Thomsen
Tel: (0131 6)50 6949
Email: Helene.Thomsen@ed.ac.uk |
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