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Grammar and Comp (3200)

Departments: Spanish and Portuguese

Professors: Xavier Vila

August 30, 2007

Vila, Xavier Silver_nugget
Grammar and Comp (3200)

Vila is entertaining, even though some people complain that they don't learn much from him directly. He is more interested in having students develop natural speaking, reading and writing abilities through practice rather than dry drills, although he gives out plenty of worksheets, which we go over in class. The class is very friendly and you can basically go off on a tangent in a discussion also long as you say most of it in Spanish.
Grading is pretty basic: grammar quizzes (hard for beginners but he lets you retake them), weekly 1-page creative compositions, and lead one class discussion on reading.
Take this is you are decent in Spanish and want a fun class, or if you want more practice using Spanish informally.

Workload:

Weekly compositions (easy!), Biweekly grammar quizzes, lead 1 class discussion, 1 reading per week. Very light overall.

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