Undergraduate - UnitATS3033 - Chinese Business Translation 1 (Incountry)

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	Chinese Studies
Offered	Not offered in 2013
Coordinator(s)	Candy Wang

Notes

Previously coded CHI3945

Synopsis

This unit is offered in China through the Chinese Incountry Program. It provides students with Chinese language training in a business and commerce context. By exposing students to a specialised business text style, students who wish to further improve their Chinese language proficiency can have an opportunity to grasp the language features of business texts and practice writing and translating related texts, thus developing their current bilingual language proficiency as well as broadening their career opportunities.

Outcomes

Students are expected to achieve the following goals upon successful completion of the unit:

To acquire familiarity with the basic linguistic features of Chinese business text through discourse analysis;
To acquire basic Chinese business writing skills;
To foster basic translation skills in translating business texts, and
To improve their knowledge of the Chinese language in the specific business context.