Assessment

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Tutorials:

In Week 1 the Friday tutorial hour will be a lecture hour. Tutorial presentations will not begin until Week 2. Topics for the tutorials are given on pages 4-5 of this handout. Please sign up with a partner for a topic and date on the lists on the main Spanish noticeboard (Floor 7, Arts 1 Building). You should aim for a presentation of some 20-25 minutes in all. This tutorial is worth 10% of your final mark and you will be evaluated on the content of your tutorial, as well as on your ability to stimulate discussion and answer questions. You are also expected to hand in, at the close of your tutorial presentation, your notes, in a legible and clearly set-out form, in order to assist evaluation. Although the presentations are in pairs, your mark will be based both on your individual work within the presentation and on how well it links in with your partner’s discussion. 

Note that, if you sign up for a tutorial and then do not "show," no further provision will be made for you to give one (excepting in the case of illness and with a doctor's certificate).

Do not hesitate to see your lecturers regarding bibliography or help with your chosen topic. Transparencies can be made from photographs if wished. Tutorials should be exciting and thought-provoking, and it is up to you to make them so.

Attendance at tutorials is highly recommended, given that material presented and discussed at these sessions will form part of the final written examination.

Tutorial Evaluation Criteria: 10%

(Each item is worth 1%)

1) Introduction/Overview.
2) Structure/Organisation of material.
3) Relevance of material to topic.
4) Evidence of wide reading.
5) Appropriate explanation of terms.
6) Use of examples/evidence to illustrate points.
7) Use of visual aids (if relevant).
8) Summary.
9) Ability to provoke debate and answer questions.
10) Length of presentation (too short/good/too long).

       

Essays:

Apart from your tutorial, you are required to write two essays for this course, each worth 20%. Your first essay will consist of a comparison of Federico García Lorca’s La casa de Bernarda Alba with Mercè Rodoreda’s La plaza del Diamante. The essay will be due in on Friday, 16 April, by 5p.m (N.B.: Friday of the first week on the Easter break).

Your second essay, also of a comparative nature, will be on Paloma Pedrero’s La isla amarilla and Eva Hibernia’s Los días perdidos. This essay will be due in on Tuesday, 25 May, by 5p.m (Tuesday of Week 11).

Please place your essays in the essay box on the 6th Floor, Arts 1 Building, outside the Secretary's office (Room 612), from where they will be collected and stamped with the date received. Note that e-mailed essays will not be accepted; if you wish to submit an essay from outside of Auckland, you should ensure that a hard copy arrives by mail by the due date.

Essays may, of course, be handed in early (see pages 6-7 for dates from which you may submit essays). It is Departmental policy not to accept late essays, excepting in the case of illness and with a doctor's certificate.

Essay topics for both essays are provided on pages 6-7 of this handout.

 

NB: Plagiarism (copying the work of others) is a serious offence in the University

Final Written Exam:

Your final two-hour exam is worth 50% of your overall mark. You will be expected to answer two questions of a comparative nature (each worth 25%) and to write on all the works studied in the course. As the examination is Restricted Book, you will be able to take into the examination room the following texts:

García Lorca, Federico: La casa de Bernarda Alba.
Rodoreda, Mercè: La plaza del Diamante.
Figuera, Ángela (poems supplied).
Pedrero, Paloma: La isla amarilla.
Hibernia, Eva: Los días perdidos.
Monleón, José, ed.: Cuentos de las dos orillas.

No translations of texts will be permitted, nor will texts be admitted that have more than normal, minor annotations in the margins. You will not be allowed to duplicate material that you have presented elsewhere in the course.

 

Please note: According to University regulations, in courses where there is a final written exam, you must sit it in order to have the possibility of passing the course. Some students have believed that it is possible to pass the course by doing well on coursework alone. This is not so. No final written exam = no pass.

 

In Case of Illness:

If you are prevented by illness from handing in an essay on time, please inform the lecturer concerned as soon as possible (e-mail or telephone messages are the most efficient) and present a medical certificate on your first day back. In the case of illness for a final written exam, you must also obtain a form, “Notes of Consideration for Written Tests Application” from the Clocktower Information Centre (x88199/88378), Clocktower Building, 22 Princes St, complete it and hand it in within a week of the date of the exam.