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Handbook of Postgraduate Studies – 2004POL836 Public Policy and Accountability4 pg cpThis unit provides an examination of the growing arrayof mechanisms (administrative law, ombudsmen, auditors-general,parliamentary committees, judicial review,ICAC, FOI, whistleblower protections) designed to holdpublic policy makers accountable and the problems thatprivatisation and contracting out cause for the effectivenessof these mechanisms.POL841 Theory of International Relations4 pg cpThis unit provides a survey of the main theoreticalapproaches to conceptualise and explain how internationalrelations operates including world society, worldauthority, power politics and Marxist approaches, thesub-streams of strategic studies, behaviourism, peace andconflict studies, plus the third world, feminist and postmodernistcritiques.POL856 Politics of AustralianCommunications Policy4 pg cpThis unit examines the politics underlying Australiancommunications and cultural policies: how governmentpolicy shapes the media, including digital media, and theinfluence of different stakeholders on policy.into LOTE and from LOTE into English of selected textsillustrating equivalence problems.TRAN821 Interpreting Techniques4 pg cpA practical course in listening, understanding, rememberingand note taking of spoken passages and dialogues andan introduction to on-sight and consecutive interpretingfrom LOTE into English and from English into LOTE.TRAN903 Languages and Cultures inContact4 pg cpThe unit aims to provide students with the opportunity todevelop a reasoned understanding of the impact of culturalpatterns (beliefs and values) on an individual’s verbaland non-verbal behaviours.TRAN904 Cross-cultural Pragmatics forTranslators and Interpreters4 pg cpThis unit provides an introduction to linguistic pragmaticsshowing the relevance of an understanding of specificsocial and cognitive contexts to the analysis of spokenand written discourse.POL892 Special Seminar—Topics inAustralian PoliticsAn introduction, for international students, to theAustralian political system. This unit prepares studentsfor later units which assume some familiarity with theAustralian political scene.SOC818 Evaluation and the PolicyProcess4 pg cpThe unit objectives are:• Situate evaluation in relation to the rest of the policyprocess;• Introduce students to the history of programevaluation;• Introduce students to some of the principal and mostinfluential program evaluation approaches;• Develop an awareness of the politics of evaluation;• Develop an awareness of the ethical issues involvedin evaluation;• Develop a basic methodological awareness of how toundertake program evaluation.TRAN816 Theory and Practice ofTranslation4 pg cpThis unit comprises two hours a week lecture/workshopfocusing on linguistic and cross-cultural aspects ofachieving equivalence in translation and interpreting,plus four hours a week language specific lectures andtranslation practice involving translation from English282