Spanish 3 (SPAN20002)

Undergraduate level 2Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)

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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: 9 April 2025

Eligibility and requirements

Prerequisites

Code Name Teaching period Credit Points
SPAN10002 Spanish 2
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Corequisites

None

Non-allowed subjects

Code Name Teaching period Credit Points
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: 9 April 2025

Assessment

DescriptionTimingPercentage

Online Task 1 (quizzes)

  • 200 words
Week 35%

Online Task 2 (quizzes)

  • 200 words
Week 55%

Online Task 3 (quizzes)

  • 200 words
Week 75%

Online Task 4 (quizzes)

  • 200 words
Week 95%

Online Task 5 (quizzes)

  • 200 words
Week 125%

Process Writing Task* (written assignment (expository), 500 words; two submissions equivalent to 750 words; second submission includes a reflective learning paragraph)

  • 750 words (equivalent)
Week 7 and 1125%

Audio-Visual Group Project* and Reflective Self-Evaluation (video-recorded dialogue in group and reflective discussion)

  • 500 words (equivalent)
Week 1020%

Online exam 1 (lessons 1-3)

  • 750 words
Week 810%

Online exam 2 (lessons 1-5) (due by the end of the first week of the examination period)

  • 1000 words
During the examination period20%
Hurdle requirement: 1. Attendance hurdle requirement: This subject has a minimum requirement of 80% attendance at tutorials, seminars, or workshops. Throughout the teaching periodN/A
Hurdle requirement: 2. Late Penalty and Assessment hurdle requirement: Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at five per cent (5%) of the possible marks available for the assessment task per day or part thereof. All pieces of assessment must be submitted to pass the subject. Each submitted assessment must be complete, constitute a genuine attempt to address the requirements of the task and will not be accepted after 20 University business days from the original assessment due date without written approval. Throughout the semesterN/A

Additional details

*Two assignments (a. Process Writing Task & b. Audio‐Visual Group Project) are included in an ePortfolio.

Last updated: 9 April 2025

Dates & times

  • Semester 1
    CoordinatorMara Favoretto
    Mode of deliveryOn Campus (Parkville)
    Contact hours48 hours: 2 x 1.5 hour tutorials and 1 x 1 hour tutorial per week
    Total time commitment170 hours
    Teaching period26 February 2024 to 26 May 2024
    Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024
    Census date 3 April 2024
    Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024
    Assessment period ends21 June 2024

    Semester 1 contact information

    mara.f@unimelb.edu.au

     

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: 9 April 2025

Further information

Last updated: 9 April 2025