ATS3196 - Spanish proficient 2 - 2019

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

Spanish and Latin American Studies

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Paul Bowker

Coordinator(s)

Dr Paul Bowker

Unit guides

Offered

Clayton

  • Second semester 2019 (On-campus)

Prerequisites

ATS3195 or special permission from the unit coordinator.

Prohibitions

ATS1196, ATS2196

Notes

If this is your language entry point, this unit requires a language entry level testlanguage entry level test (http://www.monash.edu/arts/language-entry-level/).

Synopsis

In this unit students consolidate their advanced writing, speaking, listening and reading comprehension skills in Spanish. Students continue to extend their grammatical competence and use of the subjunctive in more complex subordinate clauses, and to hone their ability to use more complex language structures that demonstrate an advanced knowledge of the language. In the culture component, students further develop a critical understanding of Spanish and Latin American cultures and societies through critiques of contemporary social, historical, political and cultural issues as these are presented in Spanish/Latin American films and/or literature.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

  1. communicate in Spanish on a variety of personal and non-personal matters, and contemporary social and political issues;
  2. use the subjunctive in subordinate clauses;
  3. write sophisticated compositions in Spanish incorporating grammatical structures studied in class;
  4. comprehend and evaluate a variety of complex audio and written texts (e.g. news and radio programs, newspaper articles and literary works);
  5. summarise, and formulate and defend, intellectual arguments relevant to contemporary Spanish and Latin American cultures and societies;
  6. employ sophisticated research, reasoning and critical thinking.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 70% + Exam: 30%

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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