Postgraduate - UnitAPG5201 - Intensive intermediate Indonesian for fieldwork

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 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	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics
Offered	Not offered in 2015
Coordinator(s)	Paul Thomas

Notes

The unit is offered as a Winter Semester unit - see the Winter Arts ProgramWinter Arts Program (http://www.monash.edu/students/courses/arts/winter-program.html) page for further information.

Synopsis

This unit aims to consolidate and to extend language skills acquired in Intensive introductory indonesian. In the cultural component students further develop their understanding of the factors that influence development in the region. It is specifically designed to further develop the language and cultural competencies required for fieldwork.

Outcomes

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

understand and speak basic Indonesian in a range of everyday situations and fieldwork specific contexts
read elementary but authentic Indonesian texts related to working context
understand structural aspects of Indonesian
have an enhanced understanding of language learning and communication strategies, and
understand and have the means to evaluate developments in Indonesian society, culture, politics, and religions.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Chief examiner(s)

Paul Thomas

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

International development

Prerequisites

Approval by the unit co-ordinator

Prohibitions

APG4201