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Clayton First semester 2007 (Day)
This unit is designed for students with relatively high Chinese language level to conduct a project-based language program for professional purposes. On a weekly basis, it will organize students into groups and search news reports from major English newspapers of western countries, online or offline, translate them into Chinese, where necessary, and re-write news reports with students' own comments. The news briefings will be broadcast by students at a local Chinese language radio station and published in a local Chinese language community newspaper.
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%
3 hours (3 x 1 hour seminars) per week
Chinese level equivalent to Chinese 7