English

Scholar Year: 2016/2017 - 1S

Courses

Head Teacher Responsability Luciano José dos Santos Baptista Pereira Head

Weekly workload Hours/week T TP P PL L TC E OT OT/PL TPL O S Type of classes Lectures Type Teacher Classes Hours Contact hours Totals 1 1,50 William Edward Williams   1,50

Teaching language

Portuguese/English

Intended learning outcomes (Knowledges, skills and competencies to be developed by the students)

Introduction
English language competence has become important in the modern globalized world due to its role as lingua franca in business, academic and technological contexts.
Learning Objectives
Students will
- Improve their spoken English capacity
- Develop competences in oral written communication of instructions
- Develop work habits which will permit comprehension and critical analysis of written content in the area of audio production in professional contexts
- Produce texts and scripts to support audiovisual projects in English
Competences
Following article 6 of Decreto-Lei nº 43/2014, competences are organized in 3 domains: knowledge, aptitudes and attitudes.
Knowledge
- C8 Broad and specialized knowledge of the methodology a development of projects
-C9 Broad and specialized knowledge of the market and work processes in the area of audiovisual production
Aptitudes
-AP1 Conceive audiovisual products for various media and purposes
-AP2 Conceive and plan creative solutions for problems in the realm of audiovisual production
Attitudes
-AT9 Demonstrate capacity to adapt language use to the characteristics of the target audience

Syllabus

- Oral presentation for professional contexts in the area fo media and audiovisual communication
- Prepare and present projects as part of a team
- Reading of a range of texts related to audiovisual production
- Viewing a range of A/V productions and oral discussion in a seminar context
- Working with a range of written sources to produce audiovisual content

Demonstration of the syllabus coherence with the UC intended learning outcomes

Articulation of program with the objectives of the curriculum unit
The program is designed to be well articulated with the objectives of the curriculum unit in that it includes a variety of tasks related to the central theme of audiovisual production in international professional contexts

Teaching methodologies

Teaching and learning methodology
Individual, pair and group-work tasks in English are provided at a variety of levels of difficulty so as to cater for and build upon the existing competences of each student.

Demonstration of the teaching methodologies coherence with the curricular unit's intended learning outcomes

The teaching learning process is based on communicative tasks associated with a theme in the area of audiovisual production. This means that students learn to use the target language using it effectively in the classroom.

Assessment methodologies and evidences

Evaluation is based on the following:
- Contribution and in class (30%)
- Oral and written project work completed both inside and outside class (70%)

Attendance system

In order to take advantage of the system of continuous assessment, the student must attend a minimum of 75% of the classes, except students with special status (article 24 of the RFA)

Assement and Attendance registers

Bibliography

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