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Intensive Spanish 3 & 4 (SPAN20027)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 25On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
Summer Term
Please refer to the LMS for up-to-date subject information, including assessment and participation requirements, for subjects being offered in 2020.
Overview
Availability | Summer Term |
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Fees | Look up fees |
This subject, taught intensively during the summer period, combines two semester-subjects enhancing students’ language and intercultural skills in Spanish. By the end of the subject, students will be able to comprehend and produce a variety of personal stories, using a variety of structures and vocabulary in the Spanish language including present and past tenses. 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, short narrative or an argument using a variety of simple verb tenses in Spanish accurately, with information from researched academic sources;
- produce increasingly coherent and cohesive discourse;
- maintain both a formal or informal conversation with both native and non- native speakers of Spanish with very little difficulty;
- identify situations in which the Hispanic cultures are represented to engage in analytical and critical dialogue;
- produce spoken and written discourse from description to narration, to formulation of argument and/or hypothesis and debate of ideas incorporating an increasing variety of lexicon, style and complexity;
- understand different Iberian and Latin American varieties of Spanish language and cultural traditions in the Hispanic world;
- have developed a critical approach and understanding towards the stereotyping and exploitation of Spanish and Latin American icons;
- have a good understanding of contemporary life in the Hispanic world with some in-depth knowledge of major social, political, historical and cultural issues;
Generic skills
- oral and written intercultural communication skills;
- time management and work planning skills;
- analytical and critical skills;
- research skills;
- information literacy skills.
Last updated: 19 April 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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SPAN10001 | Spanish 1 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Winter Term (On Campus - Parkville)
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12.5 |
AND
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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SPAN10002 | Spanish 2 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
or equivalent
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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SPAN10003 | Spanish 3 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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SPAN20002 | Spanish 3 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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SPAN10004 | Spanish 4 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
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 April 2024
Assessment
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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On-line Task 1 (quizzes)
| Week 1 | 5% |
On-line Task 2 (quizzes)
| Week 2 | 5% |
On-line Task 3 (quizzes)
| Week 3 | 5% |
On-line Task 4 (quizzes)
| Week 4 | 5% |
On-line Task 5 (quizzes)
| Week 5 | 5% |
Expository Composition* (750 words; two submissions)
| Week 3 (end) & During assessment period | 25% |
Audio-Visual Group Project* and Reflective Self-Evaluation (Md of Week 5)
| Week 5 | 20% |
On-line exam 1 (lessons 1-5) (Start of Week 4)
| Week 4 | 10% |
On-line exam 2 (lessons 1-10)
| During the assessment period | 20% |
Hurdle requirement: Students must attend a minimum of 75% of tutorials in order to pass this subject. All pieces of work must be submitted to pass this subject. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Additional details
Note: Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at 10% per day. In- class tasks missed without approval will not be marked.
*Two assignments (a. Composition & b. Audio-Visual Group Project) are included in an ePortfolio.
Last updated: 19 April 2024
Dates & times
- Summer Term
Principal coordinator Mara Favoretto Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 10 x 2 hour face to face tutorials (20 Hours) per week for 5 weeks. Total 100 hours. Private study and on-line assignments 29 hours per week for 6 weeks Total time commitment 272 hours Teaching period 6 January 2020 to 7 February 2020 Last self-enrol date 13 January 2020 Census date 17 January 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 7 February 2020 Assessment period ends 21 February 2020 Summer Term contact information
Last updated: 19 April 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Imagina (Vista Higher Learning, Supersite with on-line component)
- Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Bachelor of Biomedicine
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Bachelor of Design
- Bachelor of Environments
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
- Bachelor of Music
- Bachelor of Science
- 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.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 19 April 2024