Undergraduate - UnitATS2232 - Intensive intermediate Italian 2 (in country)

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	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	Italian Studies
Offered	Prato Summer semester B 2015 (On-campus block of classes)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Samuele Grassi

Notes

This is an international study program that requires an application to be enrolled - see the Arts PratoArts Prato (http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/prato/) page for further information.
The unit is offered as a Summer Semester unit - see the Summer Arts ProgramSummer Arts Program (http://www.monash.edu/students/courses/arts/summer-program.html) page for further information.

Synopsis

This unit aims to consolidate and to extend language skills acquired in the intermediate 1 level. In the cultural component students will study a range of literary texts and films significant within the socio-historical and literary Italian context but also relevant within the local Tuscan context

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the 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 films, and
understand important aspects of Italian social and cultural history.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 60%
Exam: 40%

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.