LANC405-24S2 (C) Semester Two 2024

Translation and Interpreting Portfolio

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 15 July 2024
End Date: Sunday, 10 November 2024
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 28 July 2024
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 29 September 2024

Description

This is a portfolio of independent advanced translation work completed by the student as a concluding part of their programme of study. This work will reflect some of the key theoretical and practical issues addressed in the programme prescriptions and will include translations of at least 10000 words in total, of at least three different types (health, legal, literary, business, etc.). This work will be supervised by a staff member from the relevant language programme or an external assessor if required.

Learning Outcomes

As a student in this course, you will gain practical experience in the fields of T&I, translating and reflecting on T&I tasks and scenarios. This portfolio will better equip you to practice T&I tasks and to theorise issues at stake, whether these occur textually or in the real world. Students will have an ability to apply the theories and methodologies studied in other T&I courses, and to better home in on self-reflective analyses.

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Employable, innovative and enterprising

Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.

Globally aware

Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.

Prerequisites

LANC401, and LANC403 or LANC404, and Subject to the approval of the Head of Department.

Contact Person

Wei Teng

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $2,046.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

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