Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2501935 Advertising and Public Relations | FB | 1 | 1 |
There are no specific prerequisites other than the conditions of access to the university.
The purpose of this subject is to improve the ability of analysis and production of texts for the media both in their oral and written variety. At the end of the course, students should know the main characteristics of a series of textual models, which will allow them to apply this knowledge to the composition of texts in Spanish.
Topic 1. Orality and writing in publicity and public relations texts. Expressions of oral language and written language in different formats. Linguistic resources for the elaboration of texts. Norm and use in different publicity and public relations texts. Some of the normative problems of Spanish.
Topic 2. The textual units: statements and paragraphs. Constituents of the statement, concordance and order of words. Paragraph types. Use of connectors and referential elements.
Topic 3. Procedures of textual creation. Linguistic and extralinguistic factors: variation and creativity. Denotation and connotation. Creation of advertising statements and rhetoric.
Topic 4. Articulation, pronunciation problems and proper characteristics of oral language in the fields of advertising and public relations. The prosodic features: speed of elocution, pauses and distribution of the accents in the statement. Melodic patterns and sentence modality in Spanish.
Topic 5. The oral presentation. Linguistic resources for oral presentations. Preparation of oral interventions. Oral resources for oral presentation. Non-verbal communication.
The content of this subject will be sensitive to aspects related to the gender perspective.
The calendar will be available on the first day of class. Students will find all information on the Virtual Campus: the description of the activities, teaching materials, and any necessary information for the proper follow-up of the subject. In case of a change of teaching modality for health reasons, teachers will make readjustments in the schedule and methodologies.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Classroom practices and seminars | 37.5 | 1.5 | |
Theory classes online | 15 | 0.6 | |
Type: Supervised | |||
Tutorials | 7.5 | 0.3 | 10, 3, 1, 4, 8 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Reading, analysis and synthesis of texts and documents, preparation and realization of papers | 90 | 3.6 | 3, 1, 5, 7, 9, 8, 13 |
Students must complete the following tests throughout the course:
The characteristics of each one of the practices will be specified during the course and can be consulted in the Moodle.
The proposed teaching methodology and evaluation activities may undergo some modifications depending on the health authorities' attendance restrictions.
The completion of punctuation, morphosyntax, lexicon errors will have a penalty of 0.2 each. A test with more than 15 grammatical errors will be directly suspended with a 0 and must be repeated in the re-evaluation.
In order to pass the subject the student must achieve a final grade equal to or greater than 5.0, once the percentages above indicated have been applied. In order to pass the subject the student must achieve a minimum grade average equal to or greater than 3.5 points out of 10 in the tests, provided that the sum of all evaluation activities is at least 5.
Students who have failed some of the activities may apply for re-evaluation of a maximum of two of the tests.
Students will be entitled to the revaluation of the subject. They should present a minimum of activities that equals two-thirds of the total grading.
Students will be considered "not evaluated" if they have submitted only one of the practices/tests. The elaboration of more than one practice/test will mean, then, the will of the student to be evaluated in the subject and, therefore, his presentation to the evaluation.
In order to be entitled to the extraordinary review, the ordinary revision must have been made.
WARNING
The student who performs any irregularity (copy, plagiarism, identitytheft...) will be qualified with 0 in this assignment or exam. In case there are several irregularities, the final grade of the subject will be 0.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Mandatory reading comprehension test | 10% | 0 | 0 | 11, 4, 5, 6, 9, 8 |
Practice of analysis and production of oral language samples | 25% | 0 | 0 | 12, 10, 3, 2, 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 13 |
Practice of analysis and production of written language samples | 25% | 0 | 0 | 12, 10, 3, 2, 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 |
Written test on the theoretical and descriptive contents of the course | 40% | 0 | 0 | 12, 10, 3, 2, 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 |
Basic bibliography
Specific bibliography
Throughout the course, the mandatory and complementary bibliographic references fundamental for the follow-up of the course will be provided.