School Of Humanities And LanguagesLanguages Skills 204: Reading and WritingWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 101268.1
Discipline: LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE NOT ELSEWHERE CLASSIFIED
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 2
Credit Points: 10
Assumed Knowledge
Two Level 1 units in the chosen language or equivalent knowledge.
Equivalent Units
101704 - Language and Communication Skills 2B: Arabic
Corequisite
100044 Arabic 202 OR 100059 Chinese 202 OR 100103 French 202 OR 100118 German 202 OR 100133 Italian 202 OR 100088 Japanese 202 OR 100148 Spanish 202
About this Unit
In 2010 this unit replaced by 101704 - Language and Communication Skills 2B: Arabic; 101705 - Language and Communication Skills 2B: Chinese; 101706 - Language and Communication Skills 2B: Italian; 101707 - Language and Communication Skills 2B: Japanese; 101708 - Language and Communication Skills 2B: Spanish. This unit is normally offered in Spring semester. This is an intermediate unit for students majoring in one of Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese or Spanish. It is normally taken concurrently with Language 202. It provides an extension of reading comprehension, and writing skills over a range of written registers. The content for reading and writing activities is selected from contemporary materials e.g. magazines, short stories as well as websites. This unit also fosters cultural and social understanding by presenting aspects of contemporary cultures and societies which use the language as well as through research work on specific socio-cultural aspects that are of interest to the student.
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