Undergraduate - UnitATS2115 - Indonesian proficient 1

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2012 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Offered	Clayton First semester 2012 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Yacinta Kurniasih

Notes

Previously coded INM2050

Synopsis

Passages from the Indonesian print media and other sources on selected topics relating to Indonesian society, culture and politics are critically analysed. Audio-visual material on selected topics are viewed and discussed, and writing tasks using appropriate registers are undertaken. Indonesian is the medium of instruction in all classes.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit students will have:

enhanced and deepened their knowledge of issues in contemporary Indonesian society, politics and culture;
strengthened their understanding of the way Indonesian language is structured and registered, and extended their vocabulary to convey information about, and interpretation of, attitudes to these issues;
enhanced their skills in listening and comprehension of spoken Indonesian language;
increased their skills in reproducing appropriate structure and registers of Indonesian language in speaking and writing;
strengthened their translation skills, both from Indonesian to English and vice versa.