Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Senior Lecturer
Luka Budak
Contact via 02 9850 7040
Australian Hearing Hub, Level 2
Associate Lecturer
Jasna Novak Milic
Contact via 02 9850 6805
Australian Hearing Hub, Level 2
Mondays 1 – 5.30 pm, Wednesdays 9 am – 2 pm
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
CRO360 or CRO460
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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 is aimed at improving vocabulary in specialised areas, idiomatic usage, and different styles of expression, as well as exploring the theory and practice of translating and interpreting.
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Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Indicative examples of assessment tasks will be available on iLearn.
Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – two (2) marks out of 100 will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted more than seven (7) days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g. quizzes, online tests.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Assignment 1 | 5% | No | 25/08/2019 |
Quiz 1 | 5% | No | 01/09/2019 |
Assignment 2 | 5% | No | 15/09/2019 |
Quiz 2 | 5% | No | 22/09/2019 |
Assignment 3 | 5% | No | 20/10/2019 |
Quiz 3 | 5% | No | 27/10/2019 |
Assignment 4 | 5% | No | 03/11/2019 |
Quiz 4 | 5% | No | 10/11/2019 |
Oral Exam | 20% | No | November 2019 |
Final written exam | 40% | Yes | November 2019 |
Due: 25/08/2019
Weighting: 5%
Unit 7 + revision
Due: 01/09/2019
Weighting: 5%
Unit 7 + revision.
This quiz will open on Thursday, 29th August at 7 am and close on Sunday, 1st September at 11.59 pm.
Due: 15/09/2019
Weighting: 5%
Units 8 & 9.
Due: 22/09/2019
Weighting: 5%
Units 8 & 9.
This quiz will open on Thursday, 19th September at 7 am and close on Sunday, 22nd September at 11.59 pm.
Due: 20/10/2019
Weighting: 5%
Units 10 & 11.
Due: 27/10/2019
Weighting: 5%
Units 10 & 11.
This quiz will open on Thursday, 24th October at 7 am and close on Sunday, 27th October at 11.59 pm.
Due: 03/11/2019
Weighting: 5%
Units 11 & 12.
Due: 10/11/2019
Weighting: 5%
Units 11 &12.
This quiz will open on Thursday, 7th November at 7 am and close on Sunday, 10th November at 11.59 pm.
Due: November 2019
Weighting: 20%
Oral exam will be held during the period 4th to 15th November but no later than 15th.
Due: November 2019
Weighting: 40%
This is a hurdle assessment task (see assessment policy for more information on hurdle assessment tasks)
Refer to the University Examination Timetable.
Dictionaries allowed.
a) Assignments: Should be completed and submitted by the due dates.
b) Final Written Examination
There will be a written examination at the end of the semester. In cases where students have made a serious first attempt at a hurdle requirement but have failed to meet it, they must be given one further opportunity to meet that hurdle requirement - if their performance in the unit is otherwise satisfactory. Students must attend an examination in Australia.
c) On-campus Session
The on-campus session will be held at Macquarie University on Saturday 28th September 2019 from 9:30 - 4:00 pm (venue will be announced several weeks before the session). External students are urged to attend if at all possible. The on-campus session will provide a tutorial on grammar, conversation and reading exercises.
The on-campus session is not compulsory but it is strongly recommended.
d) Expected Weekly Workload
(i) Reading and practicing with the recorded material 2 hours
(ii) Doing the exercises in the text book and workbook 2 hours
(iii) Answering questions and writing-up the assignments 2 hours
Online Unit
Login is via: https://ilearn.mq.edu.au/
Is my unit in iLearn?: http://help.ilearn.mq.edu.au/unitsonline/ to check when your online unit will become available.
Technology
Students are required to have regular access to a computer and the internet. Mobile devices alone are not sufficient.
For students attending classes on campus we strongly encourage that you bring along your own laptop computer, ready to work with activities in your online unit. The preferred operating system is Windows 10.
Students are required to access the online unit in iLearn by the end of Week 1 and follow any relevant instructions and links for downloads that may be required. If applicable, students are required to download the relevant language package prior to Week 2.
Please contact your course convenor before the end of Week 1 if you do not have a suitable laptop (or tablet) for in-class use.
Week 1 (29/07 – 04/08) |
Review, units 1 – 6 |
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Week 2 (04/08 – 11/08) |
Unit 7: Sve za obrazovanje, obrazovanje za sve (1) |
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Week 3 (12/08 – 18/08) |
Unit 7: Sve za obrazovanje, obrazovanje za sve (2) |
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Week 4 (19/08 – 25/08) |
Unit 8: Novac (p)okreće svijet (1) |
Assignment 1 due |
Week 5 (26/08 – 01/09) |
Unit 8: Novac (p)okreće svijet (2) |
Quiz 1 due |
Week 6 (02/09 – 08/09) |
Unit 9: Kupujmo, kupujmo (1) |
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Week 7 (09/09 – 15/09) |
Unit 9: Kupujmo, kupujmo (2) |
Assignment 2 due |
Week 8 (16/09 – 22/09) |
Recess |
Quiz 2 due |
Week 9 (23/09 – 29/09) |
Recess |
On-campus session (28/09) |
Week 10 (30/09 – 06/10) |
Unit 10: Kao u filmu (1) |
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Week 11 (07/10 – 13/10) |
Unit 10: Kao u filmu (2) |
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Week 12 (14/10 – 20/10) |
Unit 11: Klime, elementarne nepogode, okoliš, otpad (1) |
Assignment 3 due |
Week 13 (21/10 – 27/10) |
Unit 11: Klime, elementarne nepogode, okoliš, otpad (2) |
Quiz 3 due |
Week 14 (28/10 – 03/11) |
Unit 12: Haj, haj, uživaj! (1) |
Assignment 4 due |
Week 15 (04/11 – 10/11) |
Unit 12: Haj, haj, uživaj! (2) & Revision |
Quiz 4 due |
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Undergraduate students seeking more policy resources can visit the Student Policy Gateway (https://students.mq.edu.au/support/study/student-policy-gateway). It is your one-stop-shop for the key policies you need to know about throughout your undergraduate student journey.
If you would like to see all the policies relevant to Learning and Teaching visit Policy Central (https://staff.mq.edu.au/work/strategy-planning-and-governance/university-policies-and-procedures/policy-central).
Macquarie University students have a responsibility to be familiar with the Student Code of Conduct: https://students.mq.edu.au/study/getting-started/student-conduct
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When using the University's IT, you must adhere to the Acceptable Use of IT Resources Policy. The policy applies to all who connect to the MQ network including students.
Our graduates will also be capable of creative thinking and of creating knowledge. They will be imaginative and open to experience and capable of innovation at work and in the community. We want them to be engaged in applying their critical, creative thinking.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Our graduates will have enquiring minds and a literate curiosity which will lead them to pursue knowledge for its own sake. They will continue to pursue learning in their careers and as they participate in the world. They will be capable of reflecting on their experiences and relationships with others and the environment, learning from them, and growing - personally, professionally and socially.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Our graduates will take with them the intellectual development, depth and breadth of knowledge, scholarly understanding, and specific subject content in their chosen fields to make them competent and confident in their subject or profession. They will be able to demonstrate, where relevant, professional technical competence and meet professional standards. They will be able to articulate the structure of knowledge of their discipline, be able to adapt discipline-specific knowledge to novel situations, and be able to contribute from their discipline to inter-disciplinary solutions to problems.
This graduate capability is supported by:
We want our graduates to be capable of reasoning, questioning and analysing, and to integrate and synthesise learning and knowledge from a range of sources and environments; to be able to critique constraints, assumptions and limitations; to be able to think independently and systemically in relation to scholarly activity, in the workplace, and in the world. We want them to have a level of scientific and information technology literacy.
This graduate capability is supported by:
We want to develop in our students the ability to communicate and convey their views in forms effective with different audiences. We want our graduates to take with them the capability to read, listen, question, gather and evaluate information resources in a variety of formats, assess, write clearly, speak effectively, and to use visual communication and communication technologies as appropriate.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Required:Marica Čilaš-Mikulić, Milvia Gulešić-Machata & Sanda Lucija Udier: Razgovarajte S NAMA!, Udžbenik hrvatskoga kao drugoga i stranoga jezika B2 (Zagreb: F F Press, 2015); Marica Čilaš-Mikulić, Milvia Gulešić-Machata & Sanda Lucija Udier: Razgovarajte S NAMA!, Vježbenica i zvučna vježbenica hrvatskoga kao drugoga i stranoga jezika za razinu B2 (Zagreb: F F Press, 2016). Recommended:Vinko Grubišić: Croatian Grammar (Zagreb: Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada & HIŠAK, 2007). Željko Bujas: Croatian-English & English-Croatian Dictionary (Zagreb: Nakladni zavod Globus); VELIKI RJEČNIK HRVATSKOGA standardnog jezika (Zagreb: Školska knjiga, 2015). |