Course Title: Maintain and enhance professional practice

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C6154 Advanced Diploma of Interpreting (LOTE-English)

Course Title: Maintain and enhance professional practice

Portfolio: Vocational Education

Nominal Hours: 20

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

LANG5832C

City Campus

TAFE

365T Global, Urban and Social Studies

Face-to-Face

Term1 2017,
Term2 2017,
Term2 2018,
Term1 2019,
Term2 2019

LANG5832C

City Campus

TAFE

375T Vocational Design and Social Context

Face-to-Face or Internet

Term1 2020,
Term2 2020

Course Contact: Bing Lee Teh

Course Contact Phone: +(61 3) 9925 0326

Course Contact Email: binglee.teh@rmit.edu.au



Course Description

This unit describes the skills required to manage personal professional performance and to take responsibility for own professional development. It requires knowledge of the translation and interpreting industry and relevant professional development opportunities. The unit applies to established translators and interpreters seeking to enhance their career and professional development.

This unit will be delivered in a cluster as follows:


Ethics Cluster (3 units)          

  • LANG5826C Apply codes and standards to professional judgement
  • LANG5827C Negotiate translating and interpreting assignments
  • LANG5832C Maintain and enhance professional practice


 
  

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None



National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:

PSPTIS069 Maintain and enhance professional practice

Elements:

1. Model high standards of performance

2. Determine personal development needs

3. Participate in professional development activities

4. Evaluate and improve professional practice


Learning Outcomes


Overview of Assessment

Assessment will be ongoing during the semester, and you will receive feedback on your progress. You will undertake a variety of assessment tasks and activities to assess your level of competence against key elements and performance criteria.

The assessment tasks/activities may include, but are not limited to:
- Role plays
- Observation checklists
- Teacher directed group activities
- Individual/group research activities within the T&I industry and/or relevant domains to the professional practice such as courts, hospitals, trade expos etc.
- Evidence demonstrating application of codes and standards
- Practical demonstration of understanding and application of codes and standards in selected scenarios and simulated activities