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Spanish

Module Outlines

2015-2016

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Business Studies and Spanish (BSL)

Title:

SP1019 Spanish Grammar and Syntax (10 ECTS)

Module Content/Outline

The first-year course is designed primarily to establish and

consolidate competence in four language skills (listening,

speaking, reading and writing) with particular emphasis on

grammatical structures.

Lecturer(s) Ms Eva Barba

Learning Objectives

To consolidate grammatical and syntactical structures

To develop oral and written general communication

skills

Lectures &Tutorials/

contact hours

3 hours per week

Recommended Texts/key

Reading

Teacher will provide language materials in class.

All students must buy the Department Grammar Booklet

Course book: Modern Spanish Grammar: A Practical Guide

(London: Routledge, 2003), 2nd edition.

Assessment and

Examination

Students are assessed at the end of the year by examination.

Language Paper I: two translations of Spanish into English and

a section on grammar (three-hour paper) 50%

Language Paper II: text analysis and essay in Spanish (2 hours)

30%

Oral exam (10 minutes) 10%

Continuous assessment: 4 in-class tests – 10%

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Title:

SP1015 Introduction to Modern Spain (10 ECTS)

Module Content/Outline

The course offers an overview of the major historical and

political events from the 20th century to the present (covering

principally the Spanish Civil War, the Franco era, the

Transition to Democracy, and Spain today).

Lecturer(s) Dr Susana Bayó Belenguer

Learning Objectives

Demonstrate an understanding of major historical, socio-

economic, political and cultural shifts that have affected

Spain during the 20th century

Recognize to what extent Spanish society is still

responding to historical experiences of the Franco regime

Report on the extent of the cultural y social changes that

have taken place in the last thirty years

Integrate the various themes into a coherent overview of

present day Spanish society.

Lectures

&Tutorials/contact hours

1 hour lecture per week (MT/HT)

Recommended Texts/Key

Reading

Martin Blinkhorn - Democracy and Civil War in Spain 1931-

1939

J. Hooper - The New Spaniards (Penguin, 2006)

Departmental Booklet

Assessment and

Examination

Introduction to Modern Spain is assessed by one essay (MT

set in week 4 – 30% towards final mark) and by one end of

year exam (2 hour paper – 70% of final mark).

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Title:

SP2019 Spanish Grammar and Syntax (10 ECTS)

Module Content/Outline

The second-year course is designed primarily to continue to

consolidate the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading

and writing) with continued emphasis on grammatical

structures.

Lecturer(s) Ms Eva Barba

Learning Objectives

To consolidate grammatical and syntactical structures

To develop oral and written skills

To develop awareness of the foreign-language cultural and

historical background

To develop competence in Spanish business language

Lectures

&Tutorials/contact hours

3 hour per week

Recommended Texts/Key

Reading

Materials provided by the Department

Assessment and

Examination

The language module is assessed at the end of the year by ONE

three-hour paper and ONE two-hour examinations in language:

Language Paper I (three-hour paper): 3 questions: grammar and

syntax; translation into English (business related topic); Spanish

essay – 50%

Language Paper 2 (two-hour paper): text analysis on a business

topic and translation into English (on a general / current affairs

topic) – 30%

Oral (10 minutes) – 10%

Continuous assessment: 4 in-class tests – 10%

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Title:

SP2025 Contemporary Spanish Life & Culture (10 ECTS)

Module Content/Outline

The course prepares students for the year abroad by looking at

aspects of Spanish culture and society today.

Lecturer(s) Ms Patricia Gónzalez

Learning Objectives

Discuss the social and economic structures of Spain today

Discuss issues related to Spanish culture (cinema, music,

education, institutions, etc.).

Lectures

&Tutorials/contact hours

2 hours per week.

Recommended Texts/Key

Reading

Materials provided by the teacher

Assessment and

Examination

Contemporary Spanish Life and Culture is assessed by two

essays written in Spanish & by two oral presentations in

Spanish (MT: essay 40% + 10% oral presentation; HT: essay 40%

+ 10% oral presentation) – unauthorized late submission will

be awarded a FAIL grade.

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Title: SP4022 Case Study Spanish (10 ECTS)

Module Content/Outline Students will be assisted with the skills required for writing their final year case study (10,000 words written in Spanish together with a summary in English of 5,000 words).

Students will learn how to conduct primary and secondary research for their case study, to classify and evaluate data, to plan and structure the writing of the case study, to apply the formal and stylistic requirements of writing a case study.

Lecturer(s) Ms Eva Barba

Learning Objectives

To identify and select appropriate sources of primary and secondary information

To organize meaningfully and coherently material from primary and secondary sources

To demonstrate ability to study a business organization with a view to understanding its strategic aims

To analyze data about a business, about its market position, and about its macro and micro-environment

To write a major business project in accurate Spanish, demonstrating the ability to devise an effective planed structure

Lectures &Tutorials/

contact hours:

MT: 4 sessions & HT: 4 sessions

Recommended Texts/ Key

Reading

Johnson, G., Scholes, K., & Whittington, R., Exploring Corporate Strategy: Text and Cases, 8th edition, Prentice Hall: London, 2008

Naumes W. & M. Naumes, The Art & Craft of Case Writing, Sage Publications, 2006

Monolingual Spanish Dictionary

A Spanish/English-English/Spanish one-volume dictionary such as Larousse, Harraps, Oxford or Collins

Assessment and

Examination

Details of assessment and the breakdown of marks are

available in the case study handbook.

Remember that this is a non-compensatable module

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Title:

SP4023 Spanish Language for Business (10 ECTS)

Module Content/Outline:

The final year course is designed primarily to establish and

consolidate advanced competence in four language skills

(listening, speaking, reading, and writing) with particular

emphasis on advanced written competence in business

communication. Students will also summarize, analyze, and

translate into and from Spanish a wide range of text types

(journalism, essays on business culture, politics, and current

affairs).

Lecturer(s): Ms Eva Barba

Learning Objectives:

To demonstrate a high level of proficiency in written skills for

general and business purposes (letters, reports, etc.)

To demonstrate an awareness of the economic, social,

political, and business environment of contemporary Spain

To demonstrate a high degree of comprehension of a variety

of high-level general and business texts

To translate accurately and in the appropriate register a

range of text types (current affairs, economy, and business)

To understand and evaluate business and economic materials

Lectures &Tutorials/

contact hours

MT & HT: 2 hours per week

Recommended Texts/ Key

Reading

Departmental materials

Assessment and

Examination

Two three-hour exam papers.

Language Paper I: two translations from Spanish into English and

one translation from English into Spanish (55%)

Paper II: text analysis; essay in Spanish; commentary of two texts

on a similar topic. (35%)

Continuous assessment (10%)

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Title:

SP4024 Spanish Oral for Business (10 ECTS)

Module Content/Outline

Main objective will be to develop fluency in aural and spoken

Spanish for general and business purposes.

Students will be required to explain, introduce, debate, and

report on Spanish businesses and on contemporary socio-

economic topics.

Lecturer(s) Ms Virginia Segura & Patricia Gónzalez

Learning Objectives

To express themselves fluently on a variety of topics,

including business presentations.

To demonstrate the practical skills required for

communicating in multicultural business settings.

To understand and analyze the rhetorical strategies of oral

text types (interviews, speeches, advertising, etc.)

To make effective PowerPoint presentations on a business

topic

Lectures

&Tutorials/contact hours

MT and HT: 1 hour per week

Recommended Texts/Key

Reading

Materials by teacher

Assessment and

Examination

30-minute end-of-year oral examination (to include a business

presentation on a company) with the external examiner (100%)

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DEPARTMENT STAFF (BSL)

Name Phone E-mail address Room - Arts

Building

Dr Susana Bayó Belenguer

Head of Department

BSL Coordinator

(01) 896

3496

bayobels@tcd.ie

5063

Ms Patricia González (01) 896

4268

gonzalp@tcd.ie 5054B

Ms Eva Barba (01) 896

4268

ebarba@tcd.ie 5054B

Ms Virginia Segura (01) 896

4268

segurav@tcd.ie 5054B

Department Office (01) 896

1257

spanish@tcd.ie 5064

PLAGIARISM

Plagiarism is taking the work of another and presenting it and claiming it as your own either intentionally or unintentionally. WHAT IS PLAGIARISM? According to Neville (2000, p. 30) there are three main forms of plagiarism:

1. Copying another person’s work, including the work of another student (with or without consent), and claiming or pretending it to be your own.

2. Presenting arguments that use a blend of your own and a significant percentage of copied works of the original author without acknowledging the source

3. Paraphrasing another’s person work, but not giving due acknowledgement to the original writer or organization publishing the writing, including Internet sites. The exceptions to this would be in relation to common knowledge.

REMEMBER: Copying and pasting from numerous sources and moving them around to make a complete assignment is another form of plagiarism. VERY IMPORTANT To ensure that you have a clear understanding of what plagiarism is, how Trinity deals with cases of plagiarism, and how to avoid it, you will find a repository of information at: http://tcd-ie.libguides.com/plagiarism/ We ask you to take the following steps:

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(a) Visit the online resources to inform yourself about how Trinity deals with plagiarism and how you can avoid it at http://tcd-ie.libguides.com/plagiarism/. You should also familiarize yourself with the 2015-2016 Calendar entry on plagiarism located on this website and the sanctions which are applied; (b) Complete the ‘Ready, Steady, Write’ online tutorial on plagiarism at http://tcd-ie.libguides.com/plagiarism/ready-steady-write/. Completing the tutorial is compulsory for all students. (c) Familiarize yourself with the declaration that you will be asked to sign when submitting course work at http://tcd-ie.libguides.com/plagiarism/declaration/

Text of Declaration

Each coversheet that is attached to submitted work should contain the following

completed declaration:

I have read and I understand the plagiarism provisions in the General Regulations of the University Calendar for the current year, found at http://www.tcd.ie/calendar/

I have also completed the Online Tutorial on avoiding plagiarism ‘Ready Steady Write’, located at http://tcd-ie.libguides.com/plagiarism/ready-steady-write/

(d) Contact your College Tutor, your Head of Department, or your Lecturer if you are unsure about any aspect of plagiarism.

Plagiarism is viewed by Trinity as academic fraud and an offence against University discipline. The University considers plagiarism to be a major offence, and subject to the disciplinary procedures of the University.

All students must read the part of the University of Dublin Calendar on plagiarism that applies to them; every coversheet that is attached to submitted work has a declaration that must be completed, confirming this.

SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATION

The objective of the Foundation Scholarship examination is to identify students who, at a level of evaluation appropriate to the Senior Freshman year, can consistently display exceptional knowledge and understanding of their subjects. The searching examination requires candidates to demonstrate: skill in synthesizing and integrating knowledge across the full range of the set examination materials; rigorous and informed critical thought; and, in appropriate disciplines, a highly developed ability to solve problems and apply knowledge.

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Scholarship is awarded solely on the basis of this examination performance – and no other factors are taken into account. A Scholarship at Trinity College remains the most prestigious undergraduate award in the country, an award that has undoubtedly helped to foster long-lasting links between many outstanding graduates and the College. A principal aim of the College is the pursuit of excellence: one of the most tangible demonstrations of this is the institution of Scholarship. Students considering the Scholarship Examination must access the link below to familiarize themselves with the general regulations: https://www.tcd.ie/academicregistry/exams/scholarship/. The Scholars themselves, an excellent source of encouragement and advice, have produced an excellent video which you can view at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0RweAxp6vs Make sure you complete the online Application Form which will be downloadable at the ‘academicregistry’ link from 2 November 2015 until 16 November 2015.

The examinations consist of the language and non-language module. Students must demonstrate:

A high level of language competence in written and oral Spanish - special attention will be given to accuracy and fluency.

An ability to answer questions on their course work (Contemporary Spanish Life and Culture) in a reasoned, structured, analytical, and convincing manner.

Candidates have to sit two papers, as follows: One 1.5-hour paper on Spanish language competence and an oral examination (approximately 15 minutes) One 2-hour paper on Spanish Business Environment (Contemporary Spanish Life and Culture)

REQUIRED ATTENDANCE AND WORK

1. Language Classes: except as otherwise prescribed by your teachers, you will be required to present one piece of written work per week.

2. Essays: the Department accepts responsibility ONLY for term essays presented with the signed coversheet (see section on plagiarism). Essays MUST NOT be handed in to individual lecturers, pushed under doors, or sent electronically. Extensions will only be allowed where there is a medical certificate or evidence of other significant problem(s) – evidence must be presented in writing to the Head of Department. 3. Please ensure that you keep a copy of the Departmental style sheet (see pages 12 & 13) and follow the conventions therein. 4. You should regularly check the Department notice board / emails for information about the return of essays.

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PRESENTATION OF ESSAYS

1. Essays should be typed on one side only. Use the grammar and spellcheck facility of a word

processor. Insert all Spanish accents and other orthographical signs. If you write your essay by hand, be sure to write legibly. Marks will be lost for careless presentation.

2. Make sure you write grammatical English. Capitalize and punctuate properly. Think especially about occasions when clarity would be better served by the use of a colon or semi-colon instead of a comma. See book referred to in note 18: Peck and Coyle, pp. 76-78. Never use a comma where a full stop or a semi-colon should be used.

3. Consult a dictionary regularly, if you suspect that you have a tendency to misspell words, either in English or Spanish. In particular, pay special attention to the possessive apostrophe (‘the student’s books’ is referring to one student; ‘the students’ books’ is referring to more than one student), and also distinguish between 'it's', as an abbreviation for ‘it is’ or ‘it has’, and 'its' as a possessive adjective (The cat has had its dinner).

4. Leave a margin of at least an inch all round. Number all the pages.

5. The essay must engage with the title: if a question is being asked, then that question must be

answered; if it asks for discussion on topic A, the essay cannot be about topic B.

6. Abbreviations of ordinary English or Spanish words, (e.g. do not write “can’t” for cannot/can not), and writing in note form, are not acceptable.

7. A change of theme or a new stage in the argument demands a new paragraph. Each paragraph

should develop, expand, clarify or exemplify your argument(s). Paragraphs should not be excessively long. Avoid one-sentence paragraphs, especially.

8. Italicize the titles of books and complete works: for example, Franco’s Spain, 20th Century

Spanish Tourism. In other words, do not use inverted commas for the titles of extended written works.

9. Note that in Spanish, only the first letter of a book/article/etc. title is capitalized, except for

proper names and words that always have a capital letter, as in the following example: El laberinto español.

10. Titles of chapters, articles in periodicals, essays in collections are given in quotation marks: for

example, ‘Ireland and the Spanish Civil War’. The name of the periodical is italicized, and identified thus: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 21 (1954), pp. 150-151 [that is, vol. no., (year), page reference (s)].

11. QUOTATIONS from a literary work or a secondary source should be identified in some simple

fashion: number or line numbers of poem; chapter and page number of novel or play. Indicate which edition you are using: once is enough. Use single inverted commas for the quotation, not italics. Subsequent references can be put in your text and need not be relegated to footnotes or endnotes. In other words avoid a string of footnotes or endnotes referring only to the work that you are chiefly discussing. Quotations of less than about four lines should be

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run on in the text. This includes poetry, the lines of which are then separated by forward slashes. Longer quotations, whether in verse or prose, are given their own lines of text, and should be indented without single inverted commas. Your quotations should make sense either as part of your own sentence or else as complete sentences in their own right.

12. FOOTNOTE/ENDNOTE. Numbers should be placed at the end of a sentence after the

punctuation. Notes provide supplementary information to the argument conducted in the body of the text. They should be used very sparingly and never simply for effect.

13. Ensure that only essential footnotes/endnotes are included. When a particular work is being

frequently referred to throughout the essay, the first reference to that work should be footnoted. A footnoted reference should read as in the following example: Paul Preston. Franco. A Biography. London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1993, pp. 23-24; and all further references to this work are given by page number(s) in the text.

14. There are different ways of referring to critical works in your bibliography. The most complete

is probably as follows: Author, Title, Place of publication, Publisher (if available), date, page number(s), e.g. Elliot, J. H. Richelieu and Olivares. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984, p. 99. For editions of texts, use the following convention: Author, Title, Editor; then as above: Romero, Francisco, ‘Spain and the First World War’. Eds. Sebastian Balfour and Paul Preston. London: Routledge, 1999, pp. 32-52.

15. If you use someone else’s ideas – whether quoted or paraphrased – you must attribute the

borrowing to the author. A reference in the Bibliography is not enough. Your indebtedness to the writer must be acknowledged at the point of borrowing. You can use some of the standard conventions to attribute borrowings to an author (For example: According to Paul Preston …; Hugh Thomas argues that …; As J. H. Elliot points out, …).

16. Even if you do not incorporate quotations from or references to books or articles in the body

of your essay, give a list in the Bibliography of the sources you have used in the preparation of the essay; note that any attribution/quotation in the text/notes must be referenced in the Bibliography.

17. You must follow the same conventions and appropriate referencing when accessing material

on the web: http://cvc.cervantes.es/lengua/default.htm and in brackets add the date you accessed the website: for example, (accessed 12 January 2015).

18. Basic principles. Be clear and consistent. In general, it is sound practice to let the introduction

briefly outline what you intend to deal with, discuss, describe etc. The body of the essay should fulfil the expectations prompted by the introduction. The essay should be rounded off with a brief conclusion of the arguments and themes.

19. Remember, a good reference for essay writing is John Peck and Martin Coyle. The Student’s

Guide to Writing. London: Macmillan Press Ltd., 1999.