Course Details
Professional Spanish in Architecture
Academic Year 2023/24
VYS005 course is part of 2 study plans
BPC-VP Summer Semester 1st year
BPC-VP Winter Semester 1st year
This course of Spanish offers students practice in reading, understanding and discussion of architectural topics at the B2- level of the CEFR which requires a student to be able to find out information, thoughts and opinions in authentic professional texts within his/her field of study.
Practice of active participation in discussions and presentation of their own project.
Practice of active participation in discussions and presentation of their own project.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
The aim of this course is to practice speaking language by conversations about actual themes.
Prerequisites
Students need the knowledge of general Spanish at the level B1 according to CEFR (Common European Frame of Reference).
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
2 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. House – types, description of structure.
2. Plan and elevation – description of plans, sections, elevations.
3. Housing – types, renovation, social housing.
4. Public buildings – types, functions.
5. Building renovation, preservation of historical buildings.
6. Industrial buildings, brown fields.
7. Green buildings – description of green features.
8. City – sections of a city, urban development.
9. Sustainable urban development – problems, urban sprawl.
10. Materials – contemporary materials, wood in architecture.
11. Greenery - integration of greenery, green facades.
12. Interiors and exhibitions.
13. Credit test.