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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Ibero-American Studies

920-249/349 Advanced Portuguese 2 PA-1/3 PA-1

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator:

Dr Alan Baxter

Prerequisite/s:

At 2nd year, VCE Portuguese and at 3rd year, VCE Portuguese or Introductory Portuguese 2 P-2 or an equivalent approved standard.

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

Four hours per week: one 1-hour lecture, one 1-hour grammar and writing tutorial and one 2-hour practical language class

Objectives:

Students who complete this subject should:

  • be able to speak, write and understand Portuguese at an advanced intermediate level; and

  • have some knowledge of informal registers and regional variants.

Content:

The subject aims to consolidate the skills learned in Introductory Portuguese 2 P-2. The student will continue to acquire and perfect knowledge of the language through a range of activities involving language laboratory and computer aided exercises, and practical work in small groups and pairs, and through the study of Luso-Brazilian culture and society as represented in the media, in cinema, and in representative examples of Luso-Brazilian literature.

Assessment:

Written exercises (35%); one 30-minute class paper (10%); class participation (10%); comprehension, production and transcription exercises (15%); one 1500-word essay (10%); one 2-hour examination (20%).

Prescribed Texts:

A Reading Package of photocopied articles from the Department.

  • Amado, J., Tenda dos Milagres, Publicacoes Europa-America, Lisboa, 1991.
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