Tuesday 22nd September

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Level 3 Introductory Meeting

• Tuesday 22nd September

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Agenda

• Welcome and Introductions
• Registration and Timetable
• Year 3 Programme
• Student Liaison Officer
• Examinations Officer
• Residence Abroad and Photo Competition
• Post-graduate study
• Instituto Cervantes
• Instituto Camões
• Questions

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Online Registration

• Should already have registered online and chosen
  your modules. If not
• You need to do it this week
• A helpdesk is available in Parkinson Court
• Further guidance is availablevia the Portal
  http//myuni.leeds.ac.uk.

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Timetable

• You can access and print out your personal
  timetable via the portal
• check your timetable regularly during Intro Week
  and the first couple of weeks in term
  classes/lectures may have changed
• make sure that you look at the timetable for both
  semesters some lectures may only run for one
  semester or may run at a different time at a
  different place in the second semester.

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Language Group Clashes

• If you have a clash with any of your language
  classes (both Spanish and Portuguese)
• take your full and complete (printed) timetable
  to the General Office
• bring your Student Card with you if possible
• you cannot choose which group you go into it
  depends on the space available
• all changes because of clashes must be done by
  Monday 28th September (where possible).

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General Office

• If you need help or advice then go to the General
  Office
• located in Room 219, Michael Sadler Building
• we are open Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm.
• During term time academic members of staff should
  be contacted in their Office Hours or via email
• members of staff will endeavour to reply to
  emails within a reasonable time period, normally
  3 days
• an immediate response should not be expected.

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Communication

• Portal will be used for a lot of administrative
  communication. You should check it every day
• e-mail we will only e-mail your University
  e-mail address. You should check it every day
  (through the Portal)
• personalise your University e-mail account so
  that your full name appears on any e-mail you
  send, otherwise youll only appear to us as
  ml07xyz, making it difficult to identify you
• in Webmail system click on Options
• then Click on Personal Information
• then Edit your Identities
• make the appropriate changes enter your full
  name
• announcements in the VLE
• notice boards.

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Year 3 Programme

• Dr Stuart Green
• Director of Undergraduate Studies
• Email s.n.s.j.green_at_leeds.ac.uk

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Leeds for Life what it is

An entitlement for all students which helps them
integrate their academic and wider university
experience and prepare for their future.

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Phase 2 website

• Single log-in via the Portal
• Interactive website with tailored information for
  students on opportunities and skills
• Web-based templates for personal tutorials
  focusing on academic development,
  non-academic/well-being and professional
  development
• Leeds for Life Foundation grants

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Personal Tutoring

• Each student is allocated a personal tutor in
  line with the University Learning Teaching
  Partnership Agreement
• Meet one-to-one at least once per semester
• Your personal tutors name can be found via the
  Portal on the Student Services tab.

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Compulsory Meeting

• Presentation Skills session
• Wednesday 14th October from 3-4pm in Conference
  Auditorium 2.

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Compulsory Meetings

• Extended Essay/Dissertation Meeting
• Wednesday 30th September _at_ 2pm in Botany House SR
  1.04
• should appear on your timetable via Student
  Services.

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Level 3 Modules

• SPPO3010 Practical Language Skills in Spanish 3
• Module Co-ordinator Juan Muñoz
• Two classes per week
• SPPO3110 Advanced Portuguese Language
• Module Co-ordinator Dr David Frier
• Two classes per week.

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Student Liaison Officer

• Staff-Student Committee
• Chair Duncan Wheeler (d.wheeler_at_leeds.ac.uk)
• make your voice heard about any aspect (positive
  or negative) of your studies in the Department
• matters discussed in meetings are resolved
  straight away or raised in Departmental meetings
• essential for the success of the Department and a
  good opportunity to acquire skills useful after
  graduation
• five student representatives are required for
  each year
• 2 x Single Honours 2 x Joint Honours 1 x
  Portuguese.

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Examinations Officer

• Dr Gregorio Alonso
• Email g.alonso_at_leeds.ac.uk
• Plagiarism
• http//www.ldu.leeds.ac.uk/lt/plagiarism.htm
• Plagiarism is defined as presenting someone
  elses work as your own.

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Examinations Officer

• Mitigating Circumstances
• Procedure for informing the department
• all mitigating circumstances to be informed using
  the relevant form, which will be available on the
  Portal
• forms to be submitted to Mercedes Watson within 7
  days of the event to which it corresponds
• last date for submission is the Monday after the
  last semester 2 exams (Monday 7 June 2010).

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Residence Abroad

• Antonio Martínez Arboleda
• Residence Abroad Committee
• Email a.martinez-arboleda_at_leeds.ac.uk

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Assessment of Year Abroad

• All transcripts and work/voluntary placement
  evaluation forms should now have been submitted
• Weblog Summary should be submitted by 12 noon on
  1st October to the General Office with a
  Declaration of Academic Integrity
• The General Office will have a list of which
  tutors have been assigned which students for this
  exercise (dont ask during IntroWeek!)
• Weblogs and any essays can be collected so that
  you can gain feedback from Monday 2nd November
  (to be confirmed).

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Residence Abroad

• Initial Residence Abroad Meeting
• Wednesday 21st October
• Come along and tell Level 2 students about your
  Year Abroad and/or Term Abroad.

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Residence Abroad

• British Council Language Assistantships
• Wednesday 28th October
• Work/Voluntary Placements
• Wednesday 4th November
• If you were a Language Assistant or did a Work
  Placement on your Year Abroad then come along and
  help us.

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Franco Scire Latin American Travel Award

• Worth 500
• Student must have travelled in Latin America and
  be writing up a project (an Extended Essay), and
  give a presentation in final year.

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Photography Competition

• Open to all Level 3 students for submission of
  photos of their Year Abroad destinations and
  experiences
• Please submit a maximum of 5 pictures, blown up
  to A4 size (either a photocopy, or digital
  print-out), in colour or B/W (but preferably
  colour if thats the kind of film you used), and
  please remember to write your full name and email
  address on the back of each print, together with
  a brief description of what the picture shows and
  where it was taken
• Deadline for submissions Monday 2nd November, to
  the General Office.
• A selection of the entries will be displayed in
  the Department, and the winning entries will be
  selected by T.B.C.
• 1st prize 25 2nd prize 15 3rd prize 10.

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Post-graduate study

• Dr Richard Cleminson
• Director of Post-graduate Studies and Research
• r.m.cleminson_at_leeds.ac.uk
• Taught MA
• MA in World Cinemas
• MA in Modern Languages and Cultures
• MA in Translation and Interpreting

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Post-graduate study

• MA by Research
• Spain and the Philippines A Cultural Reconquest?
• Labyrinth Imagery and Discourse in the Novels of
  Jose Saramago
• Neoindigenism and Miguel Méndezs Chicano novel
  Peregrinos de Aztlán
• Women-in-Prison Films as a response to the
  feminist movements in the 1970s the case of
  Brazilian Cinema.
• Three good reasons to do an MA

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Post-graduate study

• Three good reasons to do an MA
• Employability
• Did you know that REGARDLESS of what type of MA
  you take, you improve your job and earning
  prospects?
• Thus, an MA is a sound investment for your
  future, regardless of whether you want to work
  with languages.

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Post-graduate study

• Three good reasons to do an MA
• It wont break the bank!
• Did you know that the SMLC _at_ Leeds University
  gave away over 40,000 worth of funding to
  post-graduate students who are starting their
  studies in 2009?

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Post-graduate study

• Three good reasons to do an MA
• Another chance to prove yourself intellectually
• Many finalists really come into their own in
  academic terms in the final year, but because of
  a less than glowing performance in second-year,
  miss out on a first-class degree. Post-graduate
  study is ideally suited for such students, as it
  is a chance to prove themselves intellectually.

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Post-graduate study

• Rhian Atkin
• "A Research MA provides you with a huge amount of
  skills that other employers look for. This type
  of degree is different from a taught MA, because
  you get to make all the decisions (with the
  support of a supervisor). Its a bit like a
  longer final year dissertation you decide on a
  project, do lots of research (which can include
  field work abroad), and write a thesis of about
  100 pages. It sounds like a lot, but I found I
  had to cut mine down! If youre really passionate
  about a particular area of study, it is the
  perfect way to develop your skills and do exactly
  what you want to. A research degree also sets you
  apart when youre applying for jobs, because it
  says that you are a capable and efficient project
  manager who can think independently and
  innovatively. Holding an MA by Research is
  especially good if, like me, you got a 21. It
  means you can prove what your strengths really
  are I got a distinction in the MA by Research,
  and that was partly because it allowed me to
  develop my strengths and work in the area I
  really enjoy."

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Post-graduate study

• Amy Pressland
• "Studying at Masters Level has been a big step up
  from last years finals. It has given me an
  enormous challenge which is hard work but at the
  same time, extremely satisfying. Having studied a
  BA French and Spanish at the University of Leeds,
  I spent the third academic year in Chile, South
  America. There I fell in love with the continent
  and in particular its history, politics, identity
  and colonial past.
• I applied for the MA Colonial and Postcolonial
  Studies because it has allowed me to keep up my
  academic contact with Hispanic studies. The work
  load is certainly greater than at Undergraduate
  level but doing an MA does not mean your social
  life stops all together! I have only 2 classes
  per week, each of 2 hours in duration.

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Instituto Cervantes

• Antonio Martínez Arboleda
• Departmental Liaison Officer with the Instituto
  Cervantes
• Email a.martinez-arboleda_at_leeds.ac.uk

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Instituto Camões

• Dr David Frier
• Liaison Officer with the Instituto Camões
• Email d.g.frier_at_leeds.ac.uk
• Sofia Martinho
• Director of the Instituto Camões Centre for
  Portuguese Language
• Email s.martinho_at_leeds.ac.uk

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Institut Ramon Llull

• Kristina Plà
• Lectora of the Institut Ramon Llull
• Email k.plafernandez_at_leeds.ac.uk

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Any Questions?