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Spanish 4 (SPAN10004)
Undergraduate level 1Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Semester 2
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: 19 March 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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SPAN10003 | Spanish 3 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SPAN20002 | Spanish 3 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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SPAN20003 | Spanish 4 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 19 March 2024
Assessment
Additional details
- 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 composition (750 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) [5%]
- Oral Test (750 words) due in week 10 (Role-play and conversation - details on LMS) [17.5%]
- Final exam (1500 words) during the examination period [35%]
Hurdle requirement: Students must attend a minimum of 75% of tutorials in order to pass this subject. All pieces of written work must be submitted to pass this subject.
Note: Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at 10% per working day. In-class tasks missed without approval will not be marked.
Last updated: 19 March 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Elizabeth Bryer Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 48 hours: 2 x 1.5-hour tutorials and 1 x 1-hour tutorial per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2017 Census date 31 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Semester 2 contact information
Time commitment details
170 hours
Additional delivery details
Entry to this subject can be met in one of the following ways:
- completion of Spanish 3: or
- equivalent
Last updated: 19 March 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Corpas, Garmendia & Soriano, Aula Internacional 3, Nueva Edición. Ed. Difusion, Barcelona, 2006
Recommended texts and other resources
Romero Dueñas & Gonzalez Hermoso, Competencia gramatical en uso B1, (English version) Madrid: Ed. Edelsa, 2008
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Specialisation (formal) Graduate Diploma in Arts - Spanish and Latin American Studies Major Graduate Diploma in Arts - Spanish and Latin American Studies Major Spanish and Latin American Studies Informal specialisation Spanish and Latin American Studies Breadth Track Spanish - Entry Point 3 - Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Links to additional information
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Additional information for this subject
Language Placement Test required
Last updated: 19 March 2024