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Clayton Second 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 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