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Degrees Programmes offering Spanish as a Major language
LA467 - Contemporary Spanish Language & Culture
Spanish Symbols |
Module Objectives | For further details see
http://courses.essex.ac.uk/la/
Module Description
This module
is linked to the
Materials Bank of the National Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics
and Area Studies.
A module for students with a highly
advanced knowledge of Spanish either because they have spent an
acceptable period of time either in Latin America or in Spain or have an
equivalent qualification. The materials are taken from a range of
authentic Latin American and Spanish sources and cover a variety of features of written prose,
registers, and speech. The work is based on presentations,
seminars,
debates and project writing, the guidelines for all these activities
appear below. There are 4 Readers that accompany the module containing
weekly background and contemporary materials covering 4 weeks. The work is spread out through 20 weeks with 2 Reading
Weeks and 2 Assessment Weeks. The contents are divided into
4 themes
which aim to compare and contrast common issues in Latin American
countries and Spain:
Language and Politics; Language, Gender and Identity; Language, Power
and the Media; and Language, work and family. The corresponding topics
are: Spanish: official, minority and pluricentric language; Cinema:
gender and identity representations; TV, publicity and soap-operas; Men,
women, youth, family and work. Students have to prepare
presentations and seminars and participate in debates related to the
weekly subject-matter.
This is a term work
module and there is no exam. The table below shows the assessment
percentages awarded to the activities and components.
Pre-requisites:
LA440 or LA450 plus an appropriate
number of weeks successfully spent in a Spanish-speaking country.
Comments:
All students must normally have passed LA450 Proficiency
Level Spanish and in addition satisfy at least one of the three
additional conditions below: 1) have also passed LA457. 2) have spent a
successful period of eight weeks in a Spanish-speaking country between the end of
the Second Year and the beginning of the Final Year, of which at least
six weeks must normally be in the Summer Vacation immediately preceding
the Final Year. 3) have followed an approved University module in
Spanish during the year abroad.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module students will be able to analyse Spanish and Latin American prose, write reports, commentaries, essays and exposés; use spoken Spanish to show a range of styles, registers and emotions in conversations, exchanges, presentations, situationals and seminars; and would also have acquired a set of transferable and cognitive skills.
Main Component - PROJECT
Click on this link Structuring the Project to find all information about timescale, assessment and presentation of the project.
Marking Criteria:
What your marks mean and feedback to improve your
performance
Coursework Marking Criteria:
Glossary of Terms /
Content of
Work /
Language
of written work/
Oral
Work
Project Marking Criteria
:
Excellence
/
Difficulty
/
Management
/
Referencing
/
Language
Performance
/
Analysis of Content/
COURSEWORK & ASSESSMENT
CALENDAR
Marking Criteria for coursework:
Glossary of Terms /
Content of
Work /
Language
of written work/
Oral
Work
All the 5 pieces of work have the same weight. The best 4 are
taken.
FIRST TERM
| WEEKS 2 - 11 |
Language
and Power :
Presentations:
PresMinorities
0;
Spanish vs English in the world1;
Presentation2 ;
Pres3;
Pres4; ;
Lenguas Amerindias5 Reading: Spanish: official, minority, pluricentric language : Textual Analysis Reading: Spanish and globalization: Textual Analysis Reading: Spanish and prestige: Textual Analysis Reading: Minority languages in Spain - Textual Analysis TALK ABOUT PROJECT - PROJECT |
|
Week 6 SUBMIT WRITTEN WORK BY MIDDAY FRIDAY |
a)Write
a 700 word (minimum) commentary on one
of the topics we have seen and highlight
it with one of the films that appear in
the handbook for your conversation and
submit it on OCS by Friday of WEEK 6. Instructions for the
written task are here b) Prepare your part in a conversation (7 minutes) based on the commentary and one film and submit it on OCS together with the commentary on the topics above (300 spoken Spanish words)and deliver it on WEEK 7. Instructions for the conversation are here. Please read carefully. The final mark will be an average of the commentary and conversation. THINK ABOUT YOUR PROJECT |
|
Week 7 ORAL ASSESSMENT |
Oral Conversation = Groups of 2, 3 or 4 at 7/10 minutes per group. List of groups. |
| WEEKS 2 - 11 |
Cine
and Society : Presentation1
;Presentation2; Presentation3 Reading: Focus on contemporary Spanish cinema Reading: Latin American cinema Reading: Realismo sucio y marginalidad Reading: Spanish cinema and national identity |
| Week 11 | ASSESSMENT: a)Hand in all exercises from weeks 2 - 10 on OCS and a watermarked copy to administrators, here; b) Open Exam about topics c) Personal Interview about project and topics we have seen so far, TIMES. There will be a mark for each task and the marks will be averaged into one. |
| Weeks 11 - 16 | WORK ON GENERAL INFORMATION PROJECT- PROJECT |
SECOND TERM
| Week 16 - 20 |
Language, power and the media TV, publicity, soap operas / Presentation1 / Presentation: la historia de la TV/ Publicidad1 /Publicidad2/ TALK ABOUT PROJECT- Structuring the Project |
| Week 20 | First Draft of the Project - Submit on OCS - Deadline Friday midday - 1000 words minimum |
| Week 21 - 24 |
Language, society and the family:
Women, youth, family and work
/ 1- La
familia /
2-IdeasGeneralesFamiliaHispam
/ 30Contemporary
Spanish family ;
4-Historia
de la familia latinoamericana /LA
FAMILIA4 /5-Emigration
e inmigrationn / 6-Youth Presentation
/Example |
| Week 25 |
Written Open Exam (content & form) Structuring the PROJECT- Oral & Scripted - NO Oral Assessment - Conversation instructions |
| Week 26 - 29 | FINISH THE PROJECT - PROJECT |
THIRD TERM
| Week 30 | Handingin the Project by Friday midday - PROJECT |
| ASSESSMENT CALENDAR - only the best 3 marks will be taken (the project is core) | |
|
WEEK 7 WEIGHT = 20 |
Oral Debate-Instructions in Handbook (oral & scripted - 2 marks- 500 words in Spanish) Friday midday deadline to submit a)the scripted version of your debate (500 words minimum) on Online Course Submission (OCS) and b) a watermarked copy of the script for the debate to the secretaries in Language & Linguistics) |
|
WEEK 11 WEIGHT = 20 |
Written Open Exam (content & form) |
|
WEEK 20 WEIGHT =20 |
Written Draft of Project - Firm Draft - On OCS and watermarked copy to the secretaries in Language & Linguistics by midday Friday. |
|
WEEK 25 WEIGHT = 20 |
Written Open Exam (content & form) |
|
WEEK 30 WEIGHT 20 |
Deadline Friday midday - PROJECT |
Materials and Reading List
Online Materials
Allen, R C (ed) To be continued: soap operas around the
world, Lonson: Routledge, 1995
Allen, R C Speaking of soap operas,
Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, c1985
Brinton, D M, Kagan, O and
Susa (eds)
Heritage language education: a new field emerging, New York:
Routledge, 2008
Crameri, K Language, the novelist and national identity
in post-Franco
Catalonia,
Oxford: Legenda 2000
Ed. Stenstrm, Anna-Brita, Jrg ,Annette Myre Youngspeak
in a multicultural perspective,
Amsterdam:
Philadelphia: Benjamins, c2009
Fishman, J.A., (2001) (ed)
Handbook of language and ethnic identity,
Oxford University Press, c1999.
Hammon, M and Mazdom, L (eds) The contemporary
television series, Edimburgh, Edimburgh University Press, c2005
Harvey,
S (ed) Trading culture: global traffic and local cultures in film and
television, Eastleigh: John Libbey, c2006
Hobson, D Soap Opera,
Cambridge, Polity,
2003
Jackson, J Language, identity and study abroad, London
Equinox , 2008
Limon, J E, Mexican speech play: history and the
psychological discourses of power, (Austin Tex.): Institute of Latin
American Studies,
University of
Texas
at Austin, 1987
MacKinnon, K Love, tears and the male spectator,
Madison, (NJ): Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2002
Mar-Molinero, C. & Stevenson, P. (2006b) (eds) Language
Ideologies, Policies and Practices: Language and the Future of
Europe,
Basingstoke, Palgrave.
Mar-Molinero, C. & Stewart, M. (2006a) (eds)
Globalization and language in the Spanish-Speaking World, Palgrave
Macmillan.
Mar-Molinero,
C. (1997) The Spanish-Speaking World: A Practical Introduction To
Sociolinguistic Issues,
Routledge.
Mar-Molinero, C. (2000) The Politics of language in the
Spanish-speaking world, Routledge.
Modleski, T Loving with a vengeance: mass produced
fantasies for women,
New York:
Routledge, 2008
Munday, J Style and ideology in translation: Latin
American writing in English,
New York : Routledge,
c2008
Newman, K M Radio active: advertising and consumer
activism
Ni{22,M (ed) Bilingualism and identity: Spanish at the
crossroads with other languages,
Philadelphia:
Benjamins, J, c2008
ONLINE BOOK
McQuarrie, E F and Armonk B, Go figure! New directions
in advertising, rhetoric (electronic resource), N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe,
c2008
ONLINE BOOK
O, Lois Letters from
Barcelona (electronic
source): an American woman in revolution and civil war,
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
ONLINE BOOK
Rancheros in Chicagpacn (electronic source): language
and identity in a transnational commune, Austin:University
of Texas Press, 2006
Penny, R. (1991) A history of the Spanish language,
Cambridge University Press.
Penny, R. (2000) Variation and change in Spanish,
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Ptz, M., Fishman, J.A., Neff-van Aertselaer, J.
(2006) (eds) Along the routes to power : explorations of empowerment
through language, Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter, c2006.
Beswick,
J E Regional nationalism in
Spain: language use
land ethnic identity in Galicia,
Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, c2007
Riley,
P Language, culture and identity: an ethnolinguistic perpective,
London: Continuum, 2007
