Portuguese 3 (Spring)
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| MLAC3122 | Modern Languages and Cultures | 3 | 10 | Spring UK |
- Code
- MLAC3122
- School
- Modern Languages and Cultures
- Level
- 3
- Credits
- 10
- Semesters
- Spring UK
Summary
This module is designed to enhance and reinforce the language skills developed during the year abroad. A number of key areas will be targeted. These include in particular essay writing and oral presentations. Students will be expected to conduct discussion in written and spoken Portuguese at a high level of sophistication in terms of sentence structure, vocabulary and intellectual debate. This module is Spring semester, 10 credit part of R43260. For registration by mobility students only.
Target Students
For registration by Exchange students ONLY with a good knowledge of Portuguese.
Classes
- Two 1-hour seminars each week for 12 weeks
- One 1-hour lecture each week for 12 weeks
1 x 1 hour lecture 2 x 1 hour seminar per week. 3 hours contact time per week.
Assessment
- 20% Oral: Oral exam end of semester two
- 20% Inclass Exam 1 (Written): 1 x in class language test
- 60% Exam 1 (3-hour): 1 x 3hr final written examination
Assessed by end of spring semester
Educational Aims
This course aims to build on the language competence achieved during the year abroad. There will be an emphasis on developing a more sophisticated register of vocabulary, more complex sentence structure and more developed intellectual argument in spoken and written Portuguese.Learning Outcomes
Students will read and comprehend a variety of texts in Portuguese from newspaper and magazine articles, as well as complex current affairs texts in Portuguese, examining a range of socio-political and cultural issues; they will follow portuguese spoken at authentic speed, both of these skills covering a wide range of registers, as well as local and national linguistic variation (A1, D2).
Students will offer detailed analysis of journalistic texts from a variety of Brazilian and Portuguese media sources (B3).
Students will communicate effectively in oral and written Portuguese to a high level of grammatical accuracy, lexical variation and idiomatic appropriateness. They will engage in and respond to written and oral situations constructing a well-researched and reasoned argument (C1, C2, C3).
They will demonstrate effective oral and written communication in Portuguese (D1).
Conveners
- Mr Jose De Souza