Undergraduate - UnitATS3046 - Chinese basic interpreting skills 2

This course aims to train bilingually proficient students in the role, theory, ethics, and practice of interpreting at intermediate level.This course helps students':

1. Basic concepts of interpreting skills To fully understand the differences between verbal and non-verbal interpreting skills and concepts underlying principles and practice of interpreting skills and to recognize the specific requirements of different types of interpreting
2. Skills To improve and develop students' linguistic competence as well as their verbal and non-verbal interpreting competence in both Chinese/English interpretation, to help them acquire fundamental skills and strategies essential to interpreting and to help students in developing underlying techniques for summarizing, memory enhancement, note taking, public speaking skills, etc. To get involved in various kinds of communicative activities which are closely in line with real-life situations and explore solutions to problems involved in decoding and encoding messages in the process of interpreting
3. Cultural context To enable students to enhance their multicultural understanding, as a prerequisite to interpreting and to communicate culturally specific information into an understandable format in the target language
4. Pathways To provide a pathway/articulation into advanced translation/interpreting studies, giving them the confidence to participate in studies such as NAATI accredited courses.