APG5677 · Professional ethics

Overview

This unit presents an overview of the development of the T&I industry in Australia. You will analyse and compare various international codes of ethics, with focus on the direct application of the AUSIT Code of Ethics in Australia. Through online situated learning tasks, you will be exposed to a number of real-life ethical challenges, preparing you to work in various 21st century translation and interpreting situations, face-to-face, digital and remote.

Areas of study: Interpreting and translation Translation

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. identify and discuss the development of the interpreting and translation industry in Australia, and reflect on the changing role of the translator and interpreter;
2. independently analyse and compare international codes of ethics;
3. interpret and apply the AUSIT Code of Ethics in Australia;
4. discuss key ethical challenges facing interpreters and translators in the 21st century;
5. justify, account for and critically reflect on professional behaviour according to ethical principles and contextualising these within other circumstances.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.