Module Identifier | IT30310 | |||||||||||
Module Title | THE LANGUAGE OF CURRENT AFFAIRS | |||||||||||
Academic Year | 2003/2004 | |||||||||||
Co-ordinator | To Be Arranged | |||||||||||
Semester | Semester 2 | |||||||||||
Other staff | Mr Adriano Vincentelli | |||||||||||
Pre-Requisite | (Normally) eligibility for entry to Level 3 Italian. | |||||||||||
Co-Requisite | (Normally) IT30130 | |||||||||||
Course delivery | Other | 15 Hours Contact Hours. (10 one-and-a-half hour lessons/seminars) | ||||||||||
Assessment |
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Lectures will be based, on a rota, on current newspaper or magazine articles or on material available in Robert Lumley' text (see below), which covers topics such as racism, political satire, terrorism, and the Tangentopoli scandal.
Students will be asked to prepare the material beforehand for discussion in class and then produce one piece of homework per week consisting, alternately, of a translation, a summary, or answers to the exercises in the Lumley text.
N.B. As an alternative to handing in three of the above pieces of work, students will be given the opportunity (and, if required, the necessary technical support) to produce a web page based on a current affairs article, with links explaining or illustrating relevant aspects of Italian culture, history, or politics.
This module is at CQFW Level 6