This is an accelerated course and requires teacher recommendation for enrollment. Students will engage in a variety of activities designed to increase their proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing while deepening their understanding of language and culture. These activities include: reading authentic texts such as magazine articles, short stories, excerpts of novels, and poetry; listening to conversations by native speakers on a variety of topics; writing informal and formal compositions; discussing, debating and presenting. In addition, students will complete a comprehensive review of advanced grammatical structures in Spanish. These linguistic structures will allow students to express themselves on a variety of complex and interesting topics. This course will be taught in Spanish.