Spanish C1.1

In the classes, work on grammar points is closely associated with language practice, in a communicative, dynamic, flexible framework. At the end of the course the student should be able to:
1. To understand and produce constructions related to personal experiences, events and needs of daily life. Social formulas in formal and informal contexts.
2. Understand and produce texts which describe, expose and narrate themes related to personal experiences, facts and events in daily life, within the realm of orality. To argue and counterargue giving the appropriate emphasis to the important aspects and relying on the adequate details.
3 .Refer discursive acts.
4. Understand and produce descriptive texts with clear and detailed facts about real or imaginary experiences stressing the existing relation between ideas and following the established norms of the selected literary genre. To write texts synthesizing and judging information and arguments from different sources. To understand and write personal and formal correspondence
5. Understand in a global way, texts of a literary nature with different degrees of difficulty. To understand and interpret opinions transmitted through different media.

Universitat de Barcelona awards credits based on the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) and also lists contact hours on their official transcript.
ECTS to U.S. Credit Conversion:
- 2 ECTS: 1 U.S. Credit
- 14 ECTS credits is equivalent to 7 U.S. Credits

Contact Hours Credit Conversion: 15 contact hours: 1 U.S. Credit
- 1 UB contact hour is equivalent to 60 minutes
- 1 US contact hour is equivalent to 50 minutes
- UB Language Courses are equivalent to 110 UB contact hours (60 minutes)
- 110 UB contact hours is equivalent to 8.8 U.S. semester credits (50 minutes)

CEA CAPA recommends converting the UB Language courses to U.S. contact hours (50 minutes) however, course equivalences and transfer of credit is at the discretion of the home institution.