CHI4569

Professional Chinese Language Internship, Part 2 ( 6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL)

Leader: Lijian Hong

Offered:
Clayton Second semester 2005 (Day)

Synopsis: The usage of Chinese for professional purposes through participation in the production of an online Chinese language student journal, which will be published on the School's web site. Entry is limited to twelve places per semester.

Objectives: 1. Through daily searching news reports from major English online and offline media, students are expected to keep in touch with the latest development of world affairs and improve their understanding of the social, political, cultural and economic contexts against which media terms and expressions are used in their weekly news briefing writings. 2. By weekly based extensive reading, translating, writing and editing news briefings, students are expected to greatly enhance their Chinese language writing skills for professional purposes. 3. Through extensive daily search and analysis of useful news reports from the Internet and major newspapers for the purpose of providing up-to-date news briefing for local Chinese language media publication, students are expected to improve their basic research skills and techniques of searching useful information for professional purposes.

Assessment: Class participation and performance 10%; 8 news briefings (800 Chinese characters each): 40%; Live radio broadcasting 5 minutes 15%; Editing news reports 15%; One end-of-semester oral examination 10%; One oral presentation paper 10%

Contact Hours: 3 hours (3 x 1 hour seminars) per week

Prerequisites: Chinese level equivalent to Chinese 7

Prohibitions: CHI3560