Year 3
Residence Abroad
Subject Specific Learning Outcomes
By the end of Year 3, you will be able to:
1. Consolidate skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
2. Demonstrate a nuanced understanding of the vocabulary, grammar, and registers of Spanish and
Portuguese, sensitive to regional variations.
3. Build on the experience of cultural immersion abroad to gain insights into the ways in which cultures
interact.
4. Relate general background knowledge about other societies to lived experience.
5. Pursue specific interests in the cultural and social life of the countries of residence.
6. Gain insight into live debates pertaining to social and cultural issues as perceived in the countries of
residence.
Skills Learning Outcomes
By the end of Year 3, you will be able to:
1. Adapt to living and working or studying in another country.
2. Develop skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility and decision making
3. Acquire inter-personal skills required to operate in a foreign society
Competence Standards
1. Develop the capability to live in another country
2. Communicate information in Spanish and Portuguese in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences
3. Identify potential sources of primary material of value to a future research project
4. Effectively exercise self-learning, with appropriate support where required
Achievement will be assessed (on a Pass/Fail basis) by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes specified for the residence abroad year and will be in line with assessment of the residence abroad year for all other language programmes. This will include: ยท
Language tasks as specified in the module description and as directed by the Residence Abroad Tutor
Submission of a written report demonstrating that the learning outcomes for the year have been met in terms of personal, professional and academic development and the ability to reflect critically on the value of the experience in these areas
Errors, omissions, failed links etc should be notified to the Catalogue Team