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Spanish 3 (SPAN20002)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Semester 1
Overview
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This subject enhances students’ language and intercultural skills in Spanish. On its successful completion, students will be equipped to describe emotions, places and people in a variety of ways. They will be able to communicate about the self and others through reading and writing personal stories and short critical texts based on researched academic sources. Watching authentic Spanish and Latin American short films and news as well as reading essays, short literary texts and newspapers from different Spanish-speaking countries will provide students with some in-depth knowledge about culturally and politically significant topics in the Spanish-speaking world and Hispanic cultures. They will become confident conversing in everyday informal and some formal situations, and they will showcase their communicative skills in an audio-visual group project producing a short video together. By the end of the semester, students will be able to use a variety of structures and vocabulary in the Spanish language including present and past tenses. Additionally, students will enhance their digital literacy and practice skills as well as a number of skills relevant to a workplace environment, such as problem-solving, teamwork, clear communication, self-evaluation, information literacy and professionalism.
Part of the assessment of this subject will contribute to the ePortfolio students develop in their Spanish and Latin American Studies subjects. This digital platform offers the opportunity to showcase relevant workplace skills and digital and intercultural competencies in the target language, as well as individual interests and ideas.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Write simple letters, brief synopses and paraphrases, summaries of biographical data, work and school experience
- Engage in analytical and critical dialogue about identified situations in which the Hispanic cultures are represented
- Recognise and understand different Iberian and Latin American varieties of Spanish language and cultural traditions in the Hispanic world
- Take a critical approach towards the stereotyping and exploitation of Spanish and Latin American icons
- Demonstrate increasing familiarity with the variety of histories, stories and traditions in the Hispanic World, acknowledging their unique cultural diversity and a variety of idiosyncratic artistic expressions including literary and cinematic genres
- Maintain a casual conversation entirely in Spanish with a reasonable level of mutual comprehension
- Use organisational patterns and their most frequent discourse markers both in oral and written formal and informal production
- Produce increasingly coherent and cohesive discourse in a variety of media; with information from researched academic sources
- Create a short written and/or recorded report, narrative or argument using a variety of simple verb tenses in Spanish accurately, with information from researched academic sources
Generic skills
At the completion of this subject, students should have:
- Enhanced oral and written intercultural communication skills
- Enhanced analytical and critical skills
- Improved research skills
- Improved time management and work planning skills
- Developed reflective skills on second‐language learning as a personal challenge
- Developed reflective skills about themselves as learner, being able to identify and describe any perceived learning difficulty
- Enhanced information literacy skills
- Enhanced relevant digital literacy and practice skills
- Enhanced relevant workplace skills
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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SPAN10002 | Spanish 2 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
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 |
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: 11 April 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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On-line Task 1 (quizzes)
| Week 3 | 5% |
On-line Task 2 (quizzes)
| Week 5 | 5% |
On-line Task 3 (quizzes)
| Week 7 | 5% |
On-line Task 4 (quizzes)
| Week 9 | 5% |
On-line Task 5 (quizzes)
| Week 12 | 5% |
Process Writing Task* (written assignment (expository), 500 words; two submissions equivalent to 750 words; second submission includes a reflective learning paragraph)
| Week 8 and 12 | 25% |
Audio-Visual Group Project* and Reflective Self-Evaluation (video-recorded dialogue in group and reflective discussion)
| Week 10 | 20% |
On-line exam 1 (lessons 1-3)
| Week 8 | 10% |
On-line exam 2 (lessons 1-5) (due by the end of the first week of the examination period)
| During the examination period | 20% |
Hurdle requirement: Students must attend a minimum of 75% of tutorials in order to pass this subject. | N/A |
Additional details
Note: 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 working day. In‐class tasks missed without approval will not be marked.
For the purposes of meeting this hurdle requirement, each submitted assessment must be complete and constitute a genuine attempt to address the requirements of the task. Submitting only part of an assessment (e.g. only the title page) or an assessment on an irrelevant topic will not meet this hurdle requirement.
*Two assignments (a. Process Writing Task & b. Audio‐Visual Group Project) are included in an ePortfolio.
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 1
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 27 February 2023 to 28 May 2023 Last self-enrol date 10 March 2023 Census date 31 March 2023 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 May 2023 Assessment period ends 23 June 2023 Semester 1 contact information
Time commitment details
170 hours
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Additional delivery details
Entry to this subject can be met through:
- completion of Spanish 2; or
- adequate knowledge of Spanish (four or five years of secondary school Spanish or equivalent)
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Blanco, José A. & C. Cecilia Tocaimaza-Hatch: Imagina: Español sin barreras. Curso intermedio de lengua española. Boston, MA: Vista, 42019.*
*See LMS canvas for detailed information.
Recommended texts and other resources
- Romero Dueñas,Gonzalez Hermoso & Cervera Velez, Competencia gramatical en uso A2, (English version) Madrid: Ed. Edelsa, 2008
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Specialisation (formal) Spanish and Latin American Studies Major Spanish and Latin American Studies Breadth Track Spanish - Entry Point 1 - Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Bachelor of Arts
- 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 (Production)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
- Bachelor of Music
- Bachelor of Science
- 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
- 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: 11 April 2024