WRITING, CITING AND REFERENCING

• Full guidelines on the appropriate format, style and method of referencing can be found on http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/tutorials/citing/harvard.html
• This unit uses the Harvard Style which includes using author, year:page for in text citations.  
•  Macquarie University provides a number of services intended to help students with academic writing.
•  The Writing Skills Advisory Service offers individual help.
• Use print only scholarly books and articles from electronic or print scholarly journals. Do not use Wikipedia or any other generic source.  

ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION

• Assignments for this unit will only be accepted if they are submitted via the ONLINE ILEARN UNIT
• DO NOT submit assignments by email directly to the Unit Convener, and DO NOT hand in a hard copy. 
• Note that each iLearn Assignment link contains the coversheet material, so by submitting online, you agree to the content of the coversheet.

MISSING OR LATE WORK

Where a student knows ON or BEFORE THE DUE DATE that he/she cannot submit the assignment on the due date because of illness or other certified personal difficulties, the student is entitled to ask for an extension for that piece of work. The extension means that no marks will be deducted for lateness.  In order to receive an extension, we ask students to email a scanned copy of their medical certificate or counselor’s letter to the convener via the Dialogue part of the online unit. In these cases, the student is only entitled to an extension for the period mentioned in the certificate or letter.

LATE SUBMISSIONS:

To help students submit their work in a timely fashion, assignment details are available at least three weeks before the submission date.

If the convener has not granted an extension due to certificated medical problems or to 'unavoidable disruption' prior to the day of submission, a late submission will mean that there will be a 5% deduction for the first day, and a 1% deduction for each subsequent day late, including the day on which the late submission was received.  Weekends and public holidays are included.  For example:

Final Mark        < Raw Mark     < Deduction     < DAYS LATE < Received      < Date Due

58%                 65%                 7%                   3                      Monday 17th   Friday 14th

Technologies required

Students need to use CIT tools and devices when preparing assignments and in class (for on campus students). The research essay may involve analysis of recorded data, so students will need to have their own devices for recording short snatches of communication or rituals.

Teaching and Learning Strategies

Each week, students can access content from the ilearn LING903 unit and prepare for the class activities each week. Online unit module, readings (available through library E-Reserve); video lectures; interactive classes for on-campus students and online tutorials for distance students; interaction with online discussions. Materials are shared by distance and on campus students.

Unit Webpage

The LING903 website has a range of resources, including lecture notes/videos, weekly tasks (to be carried out either independently with Online students or in face to face classes with On-Campus students), and online blogs.

To login to the website, go to the URL below. Students have access to the website from March 2014 till late June 2014

https://ilearn.mq.edu.au

There are also links to advice and assistance in the left column of this web page.

 ANY CHANGES?    Aspects of the assessment tasks vary from year to year.

Aspects of the flipped classroom have been incorporated into the design of the syllabus for LING903.

Required and Recommended Texts and/or Materials

Text books

**  Piller , I. 2011. Intercultural Communication: A critical Introduction. Edinburgh: EUP

** Bowe, Heather, Kylie Martin, and Howard Manns 2014   Communication Across Cultures 2^nd Edition CUP

 See the LING903 unit guide for full details of weekly readings

Theme 1  Introduction to Linguistic Variation in Society and Culture

Week 1                      1.1. Language in Society

Week 2                      1.2. Language and Culture

Theme 2 Culture and Semantics

Week 3                      2.i. The power of words: linguistic taboos

Week 4                      2. ii. Culture and Vocabulary

Theme 3. Culture and Pragmatics

Week 5                      3.1. Non verbal communication across cultures

Week 6                      3.2. Culture in everyday interactions

MID SEMESTER BREAK 

Week 7                      3.3. Culture and communication in health care settings

Week 8                      3.4. Culture and communication in business settings

Week 9                      3.5. Culture and communication in educational settings

Week 10                    3.6.  Cross cultural variation in text organization

Theme 4. Translating culture

Week 11                    4.1.  Challenges for the translator

Week 12                    4.2.  Strategies translators can use

Theme 5.  Cultural awareness, sensitivity and skills

Week 12                    5. Intercultural Communication Training