Spanish 4

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2015:

Total of 170 hours.

Spanish 3 or Spanish Intermediate Language & Culture A or equivalent.

Subject Code(s): SPAN10003 or SPAN20002

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SPAN20003 Spanish 4, SPAN10004/SPAN20003 Spanish Intermediate Language & Culture B, SPAN20020 Intensive Intermediate Spanish

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Description, Subject Objectives, Generic Skills and Assessment Requirements of this entry.The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the disability support scheme can be found at the Disability Liaison Unit website: http://www.services.unimelb.edu.au/disability/

This subject equips students with more sophisticated language and intercultural skills to communicate about the self and other in Spanish in a wider range of social contexts. By the end students will be able to comprehend and produce a variety of personal stories. They will have the language skills necessary to describe emotions, places and people and to use language appropriate to everyday informal and an increasing number of formal situations. By reading newspapers and literary stories and watching the news and videos from different Spanish speaking countries they will learn to comprehend and write public stories. Students will also learn to give their opinion, participate in debates, evaluate and report on ideas in the Spanish language through engaging with culturally and politically significant texts from the Spanish-speaking world.

Students who complete this subject will:

• write a report, narrative or argument using reasonably accurate verb mood and tense
• debate ideas with increasing variety of lexicon
• have a good understanding of contemporary life in the Hispanic world with some in-depth knowledge of major social, political, historical and cultural issues
• undertake research about Hispanic topics with increasing level of independence and critical spirit
• express views and opinions on a variety of Hispanic culture topics
• produce spoken and written discourse from description to narration, to formulation of argument and/or hypothesis, incorporating an increasing variety of style and complexity
• maintain both a formal or informal conversation in Spanish with very little difficulty
• communicate with both native and non-native speakers of Spanish with emerging ability
• read an authentic literary text in Spanish comprehensively

• Tarea 1 (250 words) due in week 5 [7.5%]
• Tarea 2 (250 words) due in week 9 [7.5%]
• Tarea 3 (250 words) due in week 13 [7.5%]
• Argumentative Essay (1000 words) due in weeks 8 and 12 (This consists of two versions of the same work, the second being the revised version of the first assignment after feedback. Each of these pieces is to be submitted twice via Turnitin). [20%]
• Discussion Board (250 words) every Monday (a minimum of one 30-word contribution per week on LMS. Language is not assessed) [7.5%]
• Oral Test (500 words) due in week 10 (Role-play and conversation - details on LMS) [15%]
• Final exam (1500 words) during the examination period [35%]

This subject has the following hurdle requirements:

• Regular participation in tuturials is required with a minimum 75% attendance.
• All pieces of written work must be submitted to pass this subject.

Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at 10% per day and in-class tasks missed without an approval will not be marked.

• Corpas, Garmendia & Soriano, Aula Internacional 3, Ed. Difusion, Barcelona: 2006.

• Romero Dueñas & Gonzalez Hermoso , Competencia gramatical en uso B1, (English version) Madrid: Ed. Edelsa, 2008.

This subject potentially can be taken as a breadth subject component for the following courses:

• Bachelor of Biomedicine
• Bachelor of Commerce
• Bachelor of Environments
• Bachelor of Music
• Bachelor of Science
• Bachelor of Engineering

You should visit learn more about breadth subjects and read the breadth requirements for your degree, and should discuss your choice with your student adviser, before deciding on your subjects.

• develop oral and written intercultural communication skills
• achieve time management and work planning skills
• develop analytical and critical skills
• improve research skills
• enhance information literacy skills