| Course Type | Elective Course |
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| Course Level | Bachelor's Degree |
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| Year of Study | - |
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| Semester | - |
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| ECTS | 4 |
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| Name of Lecturer(s) |
- |
| Learning Outcomes |
At the end of this course, the students;
- will gain basic note-taking skills from talks.
- will develop memory and retention skills.
- will be able to obtain competence over basic listening comprehension and expressing in another language required for consecutive interpreting.
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| Mode of Delivery | Face to face |
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| Prerequisites | No |
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| Recommended Optional Programme Components | |
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| Course Description | This course aims to familiarize students with note-taking techniques which is supplementary before attending Consecutive Interpreting course the following semesters. Also, the aim of this course is to improve students' note-taking skills with intraclass practices. |
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| Course Contents |
| WEEK |
TOPICS |
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1st Week |
General Introduction |
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2nd Week |
Speech Analysis |
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3rd Week |
Recognizing and Splitting Ideas |
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4th Week |
The Beginning of Notes |
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5th Week |
Rules of Abbreviation |
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6th Week |
Vertically and Hierarchies of Values |
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7th Week |
Symbols |
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8th Week |
Midterm Exam |
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9th Week |
Memory Prompts |
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10th Week |
Uses of the Margin |
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11th Week |
Note Taking Practice |
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12th Week |
Note Taking Practice |
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13th Week |
Note Taking Practice |
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14th Week |
Final Remarks |
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15th Week |
Final Exam |
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| Recommended or Required Reading | Gillies, Andrew. Note-Taking for consecutive interpreting: a short course. Routledge, 2017.
Jones, Roderick. Conference interpreting explained. Routledge, 2014.
Seymour, Richard K., and Jingzhi Liu. Translation and interpreting: bridging East and West: selected conference papers. College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, University of Hawaii, 1994. |
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
- Lecture
- Discussion
- Questions/Answers
- Case Study
- Problem Solving
- Practice
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| Assessment Methods and Criteria |
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Quantity |
Percentage (%) |
| Mid-term |
1 |
40 |
| Total(%) |
|
40 |
| Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) |
|
40 |
| Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) |
|
60 |
| Total(%) |
|
100 |
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| ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload |
| Activities |
Quantity |
Duration (Hour) |
Total Workload (Hour) |
| Midterm exam |
1 |
1 |
1 |
| Preparation for Quiz |
6 |
2 |
12 |
| Individual or group work |
12 |
2 |
24 |
| Preparation for Final exam |
1 |
10 |
10 |
| Course hours |
14 |
3 |
42 |
| Preparation for Midterm exam |
1 |
4 |
4 |
| Laboratory (including preparation) |
3 |
2 |
6 |
| Final exam |
1 |
2 |
2 |
| Homework |
8 |
3 |
24 |
| Total Work Load | 125 |
| Total Work Load / 30 (h) | 4.16 |
| ECTS Credit of the Course | 4 |
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| Language of Instruction | English |
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| Work Placement(s) | No |
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