Wednesday, May 22, 2013

¡Bienvenidos a la clase de Refresher!

Welcome to ALTEC’s Spanish refresher course!

The refresher courses are ALTEC’s signature offerings. The refreshers are non-credit online language courses (Spanish and French) that run for three week sessions every summer.

These teacher-led courses review the curriculum of the first two years while preparing students to take third year courses. Every week deals with a new cultural topic and provides students with opportunities to engage in a variety of speaking, writing, reading and listening activities.

While fully online, these courses are teacher-led and are NOT self-paced. There are assignments due every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Students will need daily access to a computer with a high-speed internet connection and a pair of headphones with a microphone.

ALTEC (Anderson Language & Technology Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder) is planning on offering two sessions for the summer of 2013 (June 3-21 and July 8-26).

Classes are capped at 12 students and tuition is $75 for CU students and $95 for non-CU students. 

The course material is always open to allow the public to take advantage of the educational resources provided.


Week I     Immigration
Grammar: Relative Pronouns
Vocabulary: Immigration and Human Rights
Multimedia: Manu Chao, Univisión, CÑN en español



Week II     The Film Industry

Grammar: The Perfect Tenses
Vocabulary: Film, Movie Stars, Gossip
Multimedia: Telemundo, ¡Hola!, Biutiful, VoiceThread
Week III     Our Impact
Grammar: Verbs Like Gustar, Subjunctive
Vocabulary: Social Responsibility, Global Affairs
Multimedia: Una presentación suya