Undergraduate - UnitATS2231 - Intensive intermediate Italian 1 (Incountry)

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 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
Organisational Unit	Italian Studies
Offered	Prato Summer semester B 2014 (On-campus block of classes)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Patrizia Sambuco

Notes

This is an international study program that requires an application to be enrolled - see the Arts Prato page for further information http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/prato/
Previously coded ITA2903

Synopsis

This unit aims to consolidate and to extend language skills acquired in levels 1 and 2 Italian. In the cultural component students will study a range of texts in Italian and their historical and social context.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

interact in most everyday social situations with confidence and fluency in their use of the Italian language;
vary the tone and register of the oral and written texts they produce;
read simply-structured literary texts or articles in newspapers and periodicals;
use monolingual as well as bilingual dictionaries;
understand the development of a range of literary texts , and
understand important aspects of Italian social and cultural history.

Assessment

Culture assignment: 20%
Langugae assignment: 20%
Continuous assessment: 20%
Examination: 40%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Patrizia Sambuco

Workload requirements

4 hours per day for four days over 3 weeks

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

Italian studies

Prohibitions

ATS2223 or their equivalent