The Hispanic Institute at Columbia University
presents a lecture by
Mariana González-Boluda
El uso de blogs y
redes sociales en el aula de ELE
Monday February 6, 2012
12:30 p.m.
Casa Hispánica
612 West 116th Street
Room 201
Light lunch will be served
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The Hispanic Institute at Columbia University
presents a lecture by
Jenny Nadaner
Variación dialectal en
manifestaciones acústicas. Un estudio de mujeres migrantes
Tuesday February 7, 2012
12:00 p.m.
Casa Hispánica
612 West 116th Street
Room 201
Light lunch will be served
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The Hispanic Institute at Columbia University
presents a lecture by
Lee Abraham
The Linguistic Landscape
as a Tool for Language Learning
Wednesday February 8, 2012
12:30 p.m.
Casa Hispánica
612 West 116th Street
Room 201
Light lunch will be served
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The Hispanic Institute at Columbia University
presents a lecture by
Próspero García
Sociocultural Theory and
the Spanish Language Classroom: Implications for Teaching
Thursday February 9, 2012
12:00 p.m.
Casa Hispánica
612 West 116th Street
Room 201
Light lunch will be served
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The Hispanic Institute at Columbia University
presents a lecture by
Mercedes Pérez-Serrano
¿Pagamos o prestamos atención a las colocaciones? Combinatoria léxica en el aula de español
Friday February 10, 2012
12:00 p.m.
Casa Hispánica
612 West 116th Street
Room 201
Light lunch will be served
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The Hispanic Institute at Columbia University,
The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society,
and
MIME: Medieval Iberia, Modern Empire
present
with
Alan Verskin
Columbia University
On the Dangers of Diasporic Life:
The Evolution of Muslim Attitudes to
the Mudéjar Leadership
and
Vincent Barletta
Stanford University
Ethics Before the Law:
The Aljamiado Compendium of al-Ṭulayṭulī
Tuesday February 7, 2012
6:00 p.m.
Casa Hispánica
612 West 116th Street
Room 201
Reception to follow
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There is no placement examination for either Portuguese or Catalan. Students with prior knowledge of Portuguese or Catalan (secondary school, living abroad, near-native or native speakers) should register in what they believe to be the level appropriate to them and speak to the professor of the class about placement.
The Placement Examination in Spanish is an online, multiple-choice format exam that you may take at your convenience, even before your arrival on campus (see link below). It consists of questions on vocabulary, grammar and reading comprehension. There is no oral or listening part to the exam. Since it is an adaptive test, the length varies from one individual to another, with an average time of 20 minutes.
At the exam welcome screen (see link below) you must provide all the information requested. Your score and placement recommendation will be notified to you and to the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures immediately upon completion of the exam. Please print a copy of the results for your advisor.
After receipt of the score report, you may register in the designated course during Orientation or during the Add/Drop period. The online placement test is for diagnostic purposes only and will be supplemented by your instructor's evaluation during the first week of classes, at which time he or she may recommend a change in registration. Under no circumstances may you register for a level lower or higher than the one to which you are assigned without the explicit permission of the corresponding Coordinator of the Language program for each level:
Elementary I and II (Diana Romero)
Intermediate I and II (Reyes Llopis-Garcia)
Spanish 3300 (Francisco Rosales-Varo)
If your score in the online test qualifies you for exemption from the language requirement at Columbia:
Fall registration - you will be required to take another version that will be offered every year on the Thursday before the beginning of classes in the fall semester from 11:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. in Room 352 of the International Affairs Building (the Language Resource Center Computer Lab). This year it will be on Thursday, September 1, 2011. You do not need to make an appointment to sit for this exam. Continuing students should contact the corresponding Coordinator of the Language program for each level:
Elementary I and II (Diana Romero)
Intermediate I and II (Reyes Llopis-Garcia)
Spanish 3300 (Francisco Rosales-Varo)
Spring registration - you will be required to take another version at the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures. You do not need to make an appointment to sit for this exam.
You may take this online exam only once at home, and if your score exempts you from the language requirement, once again at Columbia. Also: once you begin the exam you should not pause until the test has finished. Should you have any questions about your placement, please contact the corresponding Coordinator of the Language program for each level:
Elementary I and II (Diana Romero)
Intermediate I and II (Reyes Llopis-Garcia)
Spanish 3300 (Francisco Rosales-Varo)
The exam must represent your own work. When taking it you will be bound by Columbia University's Code of Academic Integrity, and must refrain from any activity constitutive of academic dishonesty as defined therein. (If you are a Barnard student do not proceed any further and go to: http://www.barnard.edu/spanish/placement.html)
To take the Columbia placement exam please go to:
Address: http://webcape.byuhtrsc.org/?acct=columbia
password: roaree1 [ends with the number one]
Prospective Majors and Concentrators in Hispanic Studies and Portuguese Studies can find information here about the department and its academic programs. They may also contact the Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS) for more information. If you wish to declare a major or a concentration in Hispanic Studies or a concentration in Portuguese Studies you must complete a Columbia College Major/Concentration Declaration Form, and have it signed by the DUS. School of General Studies students should obtain the requisite form from their adviser.
The Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University, located in the Casa Hispánica at 612 West 116th Street in New York, has long enjoyed an international reputation as a center for Hispanic and Lusophone studies. In addition to providing students with a commanding linguistic preparation in Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan, the department offers a flexible and varied undergraduate program that enables them to study the cultural manifestations of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds in all historical periods—from the medieval to the globalized present—and in a variety of cultural contexts: the Iberian Peninsula, Latin America, the former colonies of Portugal, and the United States.
The aim of the department's graduate program is to train students to become first-rate scholars and teachers who are theoretically sophisticated and attuned to the issues, polemics, and approaches that define the profession currently as a field of intellectual endeavor.
Casa Hispánica is also the home of the Hispanic Institute at Columbia University. Founded in 1920 as the Instituto de las Españas, the Institute's central aim is to sponsor and disseminate research on Iberian and Latin American cultures. The Institute has also published since 1934 the Revista Hispánica Moderna, a distinguished journal in Latin American and Iberian criticism and theory, and winner of the 2009 Council of Editors of Learned Journals' Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement.