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ATS3069

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 22 November 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 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.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

Refer to the specific census and withdrawal dates for the semester(s) in which this unit is offered.

Faculty

Arts

Organisational Unit

French Studies

Coordinator(s)

Ms Caroline Trousseau

Offered

Clayton

  • First semester 2016 (Day)

Notes

This unit requires a language entry level testlanguage entry level test (http://www.monash.edu/arts/language-entry-level/).

Synopsis

This unit involves students in teaching and learning activities equally developing language skills and cultural competence. Students refine their written and oral proficiency in the areas of exposition and argument, working from documents on prominent socio-cultural issues. They develop advanced language skills and competence in the theory, research methodology and practices, and discourses involved in sophisticated critical enquiry, understanding and analysis in an area of French studies, working under guidance to define and carry out a project.

Outcomes

On completion of this unit, students should have:

  1. developed advanced analytical, expository and argumentation skills in the context of written summary and synthesis activities, and essay writing and oral presentations;
  2. developed advanced knowledge and understanding of modern and contemporary France and its culture, and a more powerful explicit understanding of and competence in the theory, research methodology, practices and discourses of an area of French studies;
  3. acquired the advanced language skills involved in developing critical enquiry and analysis and expressing outcomes and understandings in the framework of a research essay; developed individual and cooperative research skills, including;
  4. One transferable research skills in accordance with the Research Skill Development Framework.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 80%
Exam: 20%

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.

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Chief examiner(s)

Ms Caroline Trousseau

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

French studies

Prerequisites

ATS3068