922-021 LaTrobe-Portuguese Advanced 2A/3A

Special enrolment arrangements apply. Students must contact the Faculty of Arts Office for application forms and further details. This subject is dependent on the availability of specialist staff and funding, and sufficient student enrolments.

At second year, VCE Portuguese and at third year, VCE Portuguese or H3 or better in 922-033 LaTrobe-Portuguese Beginners 2B/3B or approval of the subject coordinator.

The subject aims to consolidate the skills acquired in VCE Portuguese or 922-033 LaTrobe-Portuguese Beginners 2B/3B. Students will continue to acquire and perfect knowledge of the language through a range of activities involving language laboratory and computer-aided exercises, 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.

Oral/aural work including one 30 minute listening test (in class) (10%) and one ten minute oral presentation in class (15%); written work including five short grammar tests (10%), one text summary (10%), extensive summary of research done for the student's own oral presentation (10%), critique of another student's oral presentation (10%) and one composition (written in class) (10%); and one 1.5 hour final exam (25%). Third year students will be expected to show a greater achievement of discipline-specific skills in their written work than second year students. Students must pass the end of semester written test in order to pass the subject.