Spanish Schools

 

 

Spanish courses offered, in Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced level, are part of a university extension program for foreign students, who have interest in learning or furthering their existing knowledge of Spanish language. The program is run by Spanish Schools and Academies, which have an agreement with Universidad Rural de Guatemala.

 

The regular courses of each level last for three weeks, and the intensive levels for two weeks.

 

When each level is passed, a diploma will be issued, which certifies the level attained.

 

Description of the levels:

 

The offered levels are Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced.

 

To apply for Intermediate or Advanced level, the inmediate level below must achieve the level of the correspondant course by means of an ubication test.

 

Diploma:                      When the level is satisfactory approved.

Grade for promotion:  61/100 as minimum.

Hours by level:             Regular: 60 hours: 4 daily hours for 3 weeks.

                                      Advanced: 60 hours: 6 daily hours for 2 weeks.

 

APPLICATION:

 

a)      Fill out application.

b)      Enclose photocopy of passport to application.

c)      Submit to ubication test in case of being a first admission and wanting to course intermediate or advanced levels.

 

 

GENERAL CURRICULUM FOR THE TEACHING OF SPANISH LANGUAGE TO A FOREIGNER, WITH UNIVERSITY CREDIT

 

Beginner

 

CODIGO                    ESPAÑOL 100

TIEMPO                     75 HORAS

CREDITOS                 3

NIVEL                        PRINCIPIANTE – I

 

  1. Vocales y Alfabeto

  2. Números Cardinales y ordinales         

  3. Mini-diálogos, con vocabulario básico (días, meses, colores, etc.)

  4. Análisis morfológico

  5. Pronombres personales y posesivos

  6. Frases de cortesía

  7. Palabras interrogativas, negativas y afirmativas

  8. Adjetivos calificativos

  9. Usos de Ser y Estar

  10. Presente indicativo, formación

  11. Verbos regulares, de cambio e irregulares

  12. Expresiones de tiempo del presente

  13. Verbo haber como existencia

  14. Oraciones impersonales

  15. Verbos Saber y Conocer

  16. Perífrasis del infinitivo (verbo + infinitivo)

CODIGO                    ESPAÑOL 101

TIEMPO                     50 HORAS

CREDITOS                 2

NIVEL                        PRINCIPIANTE – II

 

  1. Recapitulación

  2. Adjetivos y Pronombres demostrativos

  3. Pretérito, formalción

  4. Verbos regulares, de cambio, irregulares

  5. Expresiones de tiempo del pretérito

  6. Preposiciones comunes: a, en, de, con, sin, por y para

  7. Verbos y expresiones preposicionales

  8. Verbos reflexivos comunes

  9. Usos del verbo dar, hacer, poner, echar, etc.

CODIGO                    ESPAÑOL 102

TIEMPO                     50 HORAS

CREDITOS                 2

NIVEL                        PRINCIPIANTE – III

 

  1. Recapitulación

  2. Imperfecto, formación

  3. Verbos regulares e irregulares

  4. Expresiones de tiempo e irregulares

  5. Usos del imperfecto

  6. Diferencia entre pretérito e imperfecto

  7. Sinónimos y antónimos

  8. Parónimos y homónimos

  9. Complementos y pronombres directo e indirecto

Intermediate

 

CODIGO                    ESPAÑOL 200

TIEMPO                     50 HORAS

CREDITOS                 2

NIVEL                        INTERMEDIO – I

 

  1. Recapitulación

  2. Perífrasis del infinitivo: Ir + a + infinitivo (inflexión futura)

  3. Futuro gramatical, formación

  4. Verbos regulares e irregulares

  5. Expresiones de tiempo del futuro

  6. Usos del futuro gramatical

  7. Comparativos y superlativos del adjetivo

  8. Adjetivos con terminación – ísimo

  9. Adverbios de lugar, teimpo, modo y cantidad

  10. Formación de adverbios con la terminación – mente, y con la preposición “con”

  11. Condicional, formación

  12. Verbos regulares e irregulares

CODIGO                    ESPAÑOL 201

TIEMPO                     50 HORAS

CREDITOS                 2

NIVEL                        INTERMEDIO – II

 

  1. Recapitulación

  2. Gerundio, formación y sus usos

  3. Verbos regulares, de cambio e irregulares

  4. Perífrasis del Gerundio (presente, pasado, futuro y condicional)

  5. Participio pasado, formación

  6. Verbos regulares, de cambio e irregulares

  7. Usos del participio pasado, voz pasiva

  8. Tiempos compuestos: Pretérito perfecto, pluscuamperfecto, futuro y condicional perfecto; usos

CODIGO                    ESPAÑOL 202

TIEMPO                     50 HORAS         

CREDITOS                 2

NIVEL                        INTERMEDIO – III

 

  1. Recapitulación

  2. Imperativo

  3. Pronombres relativos

  4. Verbos reflexivos

  5. Verbos accidentales

  6. Verbos recíprocos

  7. Verbos especiales

  8. Usos del pronombre “Se”

Advanced

 

CODIGO                    ESPAÑOL 300

TIEMPO                     50 HORAS

CREDITOS                 2

NIVEL                        AVANZADO – I

 

  1. Recapitulación

  2. Subjuntivo Presente, formación

  3. Verbos regulares e irregulares y de cambio

  4. Usos del subjuntivo presente

  5. Usos especiales

CODIGO                    ESPAÑOL 301

TIEMPO                     50 HORAS

CREDITOS                 2

NIVEL                        AVANZADO – II –

 

  1. Recapitulación

  2. Pretérito Perfecto de Subjuntivo, formación

  3. Usos del Pretérito perfecto de subjuntivo

  4. Imperfecto de subjuntivo, formación

  5. Usos del imperfecto de subjuntivo

  6. Usos idiomáticos de subjuntivo (sí, como sí)

CODIGO                    ESPAÑOL 302

TIEMPO                     50 HORAS

CREDITOS                 2

NIVEL                        AVANZADO – III –

 

  1. Pluscuamperfecto de subjuntivo, formación

  2. Usos del pluscuamperfecto subjuntivo

  3. Usos idiomáticos del pluscuamperfecto de subjuntivo (sí, como sí)

  4. Discurso indirecto

  5. Modismos y guatemaltequismos

  6. Proverbios y refranes

  7. El voseo, formación

  8. Vocabulario técnico

  9. Análisis literario

  10. Análisis estructural gramatical

 

 

 

PROCEDURE FOR OBTAINING A DIPLOMA AND AUTHENTICATING THE PROGRAM:

 

a)      The student must fill and sign the application to the university’s extension (the authorized spanish school or academy).

b)      The student must receive the minimum contents of each level, in a process of total immersion whithin the number of established hours.

c)      The student must sustain a test from the respective level. This test must be signed by the student, the teacher and must have the approval of the headmaster of the spanish academy or school.

d)      Submit a solicitation for the issuing of a diploma and the authentication of the program, in the University Representantative’s Office, in the correspondant region, by means of the spanish school or academy’s headmaster. Such solicitation must have the student’s complete names and lastnames, nationality, age, coursed level, and promotion grade of the respective level. The documentation listed in literals a) and b) must be enclosed.

e)      The university’s representant in the correspondant region, will proceed to take the necessary steps to obtain from the university the diploma and the program authentication. The solicited documents must be available for delivery in 48 work hours after the solicitation is received. The school or academy’s headmaster must obtain the solicited documents from the university representative’s office of the correspondant region upon termination of such period.

 

Any additional certification required will be carried out by the interested part or by the spanish academy or school who may take charge of this matter. The university will not take part of such issue.

 

FEE:

 

The charge for university credit will be US$50.

 

This fee does not depend on the course fee, which is stated by the spanish academy or school, according to their internal politics.

 

Credit transfer and acceptance, from Universidad Rural de Guatemala to universities abroad, depends on the policies of the recipient university.