Spanish 4 (SPAN10004)
Undergraduate level 1Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
Overview
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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.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this subject, students should:
- be able to write a report, narrative or argument using reasonably accurate verb mood and tense;
- be able to 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;
- be able to undertake research about Hispanic topics with increasing level of independence and critical spirit;
- be able to express views and opinions on a variety of Hispanic culture topics;
- be able to produce spoken and written discourse from description to narration, to formulation of argument and/or hypothesis, incorporating an increasing variety of style and complexity;
- be able to maintain both a formal or informal conversation in Spanish with very little difficulty;
- be able to communicate with both native and non-native speakers of Spanish with emerging ability;
- be able to read an authentic literary text in Spanish comprehensively.
Generic skills
At the completion of this subject, students should:
- have developed oral and written intercultural communication skills;
- have achieved time management and work planning skills;
- have developed analytical and critical skills;
- have improved research skills;
- have enhanced information literacy skills.
Last updated: 21 January 2025