Monash University Arts Undergraduate Handbook, 1997

General

The definition of the teaching and learning objectives of the Italian section recognises:

the plurality of these objectives, given varying student profiles (the section provides for students with different learning backgrounds, ranging from those with no previous experience of the language to those with secondary schooling supplemented by study in Italy. The section thus offers two first-year entry levels - beginners and post-VCE. A flexible streaming pattern allows for placement of students at a higher level where necessary; remedial programs are offered where appropriate);
varying course configurations (the section offers first-year sequences, minor and major sequences, and honours).

Objectives vary according to the duration of study in the discipline, but any course (eg beginner or first-year only) is both discrete, with its own set of objectives, and a component of a longer course (ie a minor, major, honours) with correspondingly more extensive objectives. None of the section's discrete offerings (with the exception of the first-year, first-semester subjects) has as their only justification their belonging to a longer course. For example, the justification of a first-year subject, and therefore its teaching and learning objectives, is not solely defined in terms of access to and preparation for later-year study. This has important implications for language teaching methodology and the definition and coordination of the units of increasing complexity offered by the section.

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