Area Studies in Spanish
Learning a Language through Use
Area studies courses taught in Spanish provide the IES student with a contextualized and meaningful learning situation.
We encourage the integration of particular content with language teaching aims.
Both academic subject matter and second language skills are taught and learnt. In this way natural language acquisition occurs. Natural language is
difficult to learn when it is divorced from meaning, therefore students can best learn a second language when the emphasis is on relevant, meaningful content.
The following Area Studies courses are offered at IES Barcelona in Spanish, for advanced level students:
- CM329Language, Culture and Communication: Hispanic Cultures and their
Societies
- AN/IR320
Latin America: Development and Political Perspectives from the
US and Europe
- CU350
The Gypsies in Spain
- FS350
Cinema and the City: Barcelona through the Camara Lens
- HS334
Contemporary History of Spain
- LT375
Barcelona and the Latin American Literary Boom
- MS200
The Music of Spain and Latin America
