Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor
Adelis Huang
Margaret Wood
Practicum coordinator
Xiaoxia Shen
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Credit points |
Credit points
4
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
(TRAN821 and TRAN877) or admission to MConflnt
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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 prepares students for professional practice as translators and/or interpreters. Students will be required to complete the fieldwork components (Practicum) required to complete the program. In addition to the fieldwork, the unit will cover a range of knowledge and skills that are essential to working as a freelance practitioner or as part of an in-house team of translators and interpreters. These include a profound understanding of translator and interpreter ethics, business creation and administration, marketing, building good client relationships, and lifelong learning.
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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:
To reflect the flexbility of the unit to be a practical-oriented one, the students are allowed to extend their completion of all the tasks beyond the current semester, if they are working on more than one specialty and/or if special circumstances arise, so long as they stay with the T&I Program. However, the students doing so will not get a final result until all the requirements are met.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Seminar attendance | 20% | No | Week 13 |
Reflective journals | 30% | No | Week 13 |
Portfolio | 50% | No | Week 13 |
Due: Week 13
Weighting: 20%
The students are required to attend unit-organised seminars on various topics in relation to their professional practise, including but not limited to: code of ethics, legal interpreting, conference interpreting, etc. A journal is required to be submitted on iLearn for each seminar within one week after the seminar is delivered unless otherwise specified.
Due: Week 13
Weighting: 30%
The students are required to keep journals of the activities they perform to comply with the unit requirements, including seminars, interpreting placements, translation projects, observations, etc. The journals shall be submitted with the portfolio by the end of Week 13.
Due: Week 13
Weighting: 50%
The students are required to submit a portfolio by the end of Week 13, enclosing all the activities they have done for the unit, including but not limited to: log sheets of translation projects, interpreting placements and court observations; journals of placements, translation projects, observations, etc.; supervisors' reports of the translation tasks, and so on.
The main on-campus delivery method of the unit is seminars by guest lectures to cover different topics of working as a professional translator and/or interpreter. Other than attending the seminar, the T&I Program is also liasing with the community to secure interpreting placement opportunities and translation projects for the students to practise in the real mode, with the final products supervised by qualified interpreters and/or translators. Students will also be required to act as practising interpreters/translators for various clients sourced by the program or by themselves (pre-approveal of the program is need before the actual work is carried out).
Macquarie University policies and procedures are accessible from Policy Central (https://staff.mq.edu.au/work/strategy-planning-and-governance/university-policies-and-procedures/policy-central). Students should be aware of the following policies in particular with regard to Learning and Teaching:
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
Results published on platform other than eStudent, (eg. iLearn, Coursera etc.) or released directly by your Unit Convenor, are not confirmed as they are subject to final approval by the University. Once approved, final results will be sent to your student email address and will be made available in eStudent. For more information visit ask.mq.edu.au or if you are a Global MBA student contact globalmba.support@mq.edu.au
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Our postgraduates will demonstrate a high standard of discernment and common sense in their professional and personal judgment. They will have the ability to make informed choices and decisions that reflect both the nature of their professional work and their personal perspectives.
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