Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Convenor
Wai-hung Lam
C5A 419
Lecturer
Adrian Buzo
C5A 409
Lecturer
Gyung Hee Choi
Lecturer
Izumi Inoue
C5A 412
Lecturer
Deborah Miyashita
C5A 409
Margaret Wood
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Credit points |
Credit points
4
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
TRAN820 or admission to MAdvTrans or MConfInt
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit provides students with opportunities to further practice techniques involved in translating texts from a wide range of genres, including the most up-to-date texts, catering for student needs regarding areas on-demand in translation markets. Students will explore different strategies for handling complex tasks undertaken by advanced translators, and their abilities to work as a team member and reviewer will also be further strengthened.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Name | Weighting | Due |
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Weekly translation assignments | 40% | Various |
Translation exam | 30% | Week 13 |
Group Project | 20% | Week 13 |
Reflective essay | 10% | Week 13 |
Due: Various
Weighting: 40%
300 Word Translation Task Submitted Weekly.
Due: Week 13
Weighting: 30%
15% in each direction.
Due: Week 13
Weighting: 20%
Collaborative translation project to be undertaken over the semester.
Due: Week 13
Weighting: 10%
Essay.
Each language group has one 3-hour face-to-face class every week, focuses on translation from English into LOTE and from LOTE into English. Please refer to the timetable provided by the T&I office for specific class times and classrooms.
This unit uses authentic texts that professional translators deal with in the real translation market such as IT white papers, financial reports, medical journals, and tourist brochures, to give just a few examples. The selection of texts may be different depending on the demands of individual translation markets. It is recommended that students translate texts that are equivalent to 30,000 words approximately in total this semester.
This unit also provides opportunities for students to develop generic skills that are required of professional translators. Such opportunities may be provided in the form of project-based learning, task-based learning, or problem-based learning.
It is expected that students in this unit will actively participate in various activities designed in this unit and develop their own professional tools.
In order to gain the most benefit from the unit, students need the following hardware & software:
· a PC or Mac computer with internet access
· MS Word
· a PDF reader (for pdf files)
Please refer ti iLearn.
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Disruption to Studies Policy http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/disruption_studies/policy.html The Disruption to Studies Policy is effective from March 3 2014 and replaces the Special Consideration Policy.
In addition, a number of other policies can be found in the Learning and Teaching Category of Policy Central.
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