Monash University Handbook 2011 Undergraduate - Unit

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Offered	Clayton Second semester 2011 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Annamaria Pagliaro

Notes

Synopsis

Consolidation and extension of work begun in ATS2227.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit the students will have progressed in all four language skills:

1. Listening: they will be able to understand authentic spoken Italian from songs, films, plays, TV news.
2. Reading: they will be able to comprehend a range of authentic (although slightly edited) non-specialist Italian written texts (such as short stories and magazine articles) and specialist Italian written texts (such as news reports and advertisements).
3. Speaking: they will be able to interact in correct Italian in a range of specific situations (telephone messages; sales techniques; fairly simple debates).
4. Writing: they will be able to produce a range of coherent, short (approx. 300-word) descriptive, argumentative or persuasive texts in correct and appropriate Italian.

In the cultural component students should gain an understanding of the interrelationships between the literary production and the ideology of the period covered. Students should also have familiarised themselves with textual analysis and different types of narrative constructs.

Assessment

Written work: 30%
Class work/tests/exercises: 35%
Exam: 25%
Oral/Aural exam: 10%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Annamaria Pagliaro

Contact hours

4 hours (1 hour culture lecture and 3 hours language workshops) per week

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Italian studies

Prerequisites

ATS2227 or equivalent language competence