Unit Code:	ITA3ADA
Unit Short Title:	ITALIAN ADVANCED 3A
Credit Points:	20
Unit Description:	In this subject students develop advanced communicative skills. The purpose of the unit is to raise students to the threshold of language professionalism in spoken and written communication, understanding of contemporary Italy, discrimination between varieties of discourse and communicative situations. Students are provided with an introduction to specific skills, including reporting and summarising. The student's range of vocabulary, idiom and syntactic resources is systematically extended through the use of a wide variety of audio, video and print materials. Each student pursues a thematic language project in Italian, maximising use of developing language resources around a topic or issue of personal interest. This subject is compulsory for students undertaking any subject in Italian at third-year level in the A-stream.
Prerequisites:	ITA2ADB or ITA3BEB
Class Requirements:	three hours of practical language per week
Work Experience Indicator:	Not undertaking work experience in industry
Available to 'Study Abroad' students:	Y

Assessment:

Assessment Type	%	Comments
eight 250-word assignments	20
two 50-minute tests	40
two 10-minute oral tasks	25
and one 10-minute oral examination	15

Readings:

Reading Type	Title	Author	Publisher
Prescribed	Il nuovo Zingarelli,	Dogliotto, M. and Rosiello, L. (eds)	Zanichelli
Prescribed	L' ultimo viaggio di Sindbad,	De Luca, E.	Einaudi

Unit Streams:

Teaching Period	Unit Class	Location
1   01-MAR-10   04-JUN-10	Day	BUNDOORA

Unit Coordinators:

Title	First Name	Last Name	Location	Primary Coordinator
Dr	Brigid	Maher	BUNDOORA	Y