General Information

We offer Spanish courses for both beginners and advanced students. On BOKUonline you can find the available language courses, along with descriptions of each course and how they correspond to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages levels. You can use this as a reference when applying for your course in order to see which course will fit your current language level best.

You can check which courses and levels are being offered during the Winter Semester and the following Summer Semester.

*** Please note that we can only offer a maximum of 23 courses per semester for all languages altogether. The selection of which courses can actually take place therefore always depends on demand and interest in the respective Courses. ***

Winter semester

Spanish I (A1, no previous knowledge)

The most important aim of the beginners' course (120011) is to acquire the basic language skills to be able to communicate with people in a Spanish-speaking country in the most important everyday situations. For participants, this means learning the basic structures in a communicative way, as well as building up a basic vocabulary of the Spanish language.

Detailed information on content, learning outcomes, course credit and dates can be found in BOKUonline.

Course fee: 130 Euro.

Spanish III (A2)

The target group of the course (120005) are participants of the Spanish II course, students with a corresponding language level or advanced students who want to refresh their language skills in particular. The focus of the consolidation and repetition of grammar is on pronouns, irregular verbs, verbs in all tenses and the formation and use of past tenses and the “subjuntivo”. Using selected texts, exercises and audio-visual media, various topics of everyday life are also dealt with in writing and orally.

Detailed information on content, learning outcomes, credit transfer and course dates can be found in BOKUonline.

Course fee: 130 Euro.
 

Summer semester

Spanish II (A1+)

In this course (120051), the past and future tenses, the subjunctive, possessive pronouns, gerund, use of 'ser' and 'estar' are taught and practiced. The basic vocabulary is deepened. However, the focus of the lessons is on the communicative aspects of the language. This is supplemented by written exercises in the form of homework.

Detailed information on the content, learning outcomes, credit transfer and course dates can be found in BOKUonline.

Course fee: 130 Euro.

Spanish IV (B1)

The course (120037) deepens the oral and written expression skills acquired in Spanish III and teaches advanced grammatical structures such as imperfecto de subjuntivo, oración indirecta or special uses of prepositions. Short presentations, text summaries and Spanish-German and German-Spanish translations prepare students for the Spanish technical language.

Detailed information on content, learning outcomes, credit transfer and course dates can be found in BOKUonline.

Course fee: 130 Euro.

Spanish Technical Language (B2+)

Please note: this course is not offered every year!
The aim of this course is to acquire certain skills that are necessary to be able to discuss with experts in the Spanish cultural sphere: the specialized vocabulary relevant to BOKU studies is learned and deepened, professional texts are analyzed and reports on BOKU-relevant topics are discussed and commented on. The students hold subject-specific presentations. In addition, the course includes a distance learning module that requires students to work independently. In this distance learning module, supplementary materials on Bokulearn are offered to extend the chapters of the script and to present specific case studies from different Spanish-speaking regions. Through this extension, historical and socio-cultural content of the Spanish-speaking world and the different varieties of Spanish will be covered. The activities in this module will be presented using authentic audiovisual material and academic texts where possible. These activities will be supported by comprehension and collaboration tasks on the Bokulearn platform. The target group of the course are students who have successfully passed Spanish IV or students with very good language skills acquired during stays abroad in Spain or Latin America.

Detailed information on the content, learning outcomes, crediting and dates can be found in BOKUonline.

The course is free of charge for BOKU students.

Mag.a María Teresa Martín Sánchez

  • Spanish I - IV
  • Spanish for Science and Technology (BOKU-specific subjects), B2

Teresa Martin-Sanchez started her work as teacher in the final year of her studies of Spanish philology at the University of Salamanca in Spain, where she specialised in Spanish as a foreign language. She moved to Vienna in 2007, working at the Instituto Cervantes. In 2013 she finished her second set of university studies, this time in Spanish Grammar, Analysis and Style of Speech at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) in Madrid. She currently teaches Spanish at a number of various institutions and works on the development of learning materials for teaching Spanish. She has worked at BOKU since 2008.

Isabel Moro López, lic. MA

  • Spanish I - IV

 

Isabel studied English Philology at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid and holds a Master’s degree in Teaching Spanish as a Second Language from the Universidad de Barcelona. In 2006 she held her first position as a language assistant in Vienna and since then she has been teaching Spanish not only at BOKU, but also at the Instituto Cervantes in Vienna and various Austrian Universities of Applied Sciences, including the FH des BFI Wien, FH Wien and FH Krems. She also leads seminars, focusing on learning strategies, for training Spanish teachers in training.