Module Catalogue 2024/25

Pre Requisite Comment

None

Co Requisite Comment

None

Aims

For students to:
•       understand the main factors involved in communication across two languages.
•       gain a broad knowledge of the key issues of theory and principle involved in translation and interpreting.
•       use this knowledge to reflect critically on their practical translation and/or interpreting experience.
•       learn key academic-writing and reading skills for UK post-graduate education.

Outline Of Syllabus

•       Equivalence, translating/interpreting factors & distances
•       Translation/interpreting and semantic meaning
•       Translation/interpreting and pragmatic meaning
•       Translation/interpreting and discourse
•       Skopos, function and norms
•       Translating/interpreting processes & strategies
•       Culture, domestication, foreignisation
•       Loyalty and creativity
•       Gender and translation
•       Quality and the translation/interpreting professional
•       Key concepts and tools in post-graduate academic reading and writing

Intended Knowledge Outcomes

Students should:
*       Have a good working knowledge of the key concepts used to describe translation and/or interpreting processes.
*       Understand the linguistic and cultural factors which determine how messages are constructed, and the implications that this has for translation and/or interpreting.
*       Understand how texts convey meaning on multiple levels, and the implications that this has for translating and/or interpreting practice.
*       Be aware of the role of the translator/interpreter as a professional and a cultural mediator.
*       Be aware of the psycholinguistic and practical processes of written translation, and
*       Be aware of the main factors and problems in assessing translation and/or interpreting quality.
*       Have an in-depth knowledge of an area of translation studies covered in the lectures and/or seminars.

Intended Skill Outcomes

Students should:
•       gain a broader and more explicit toolkit of practical translating/interpreting strategies.
•       be able to reflect critically on their own and others’ translating/interpreting practice.
•       gain a toolkit of academic reading and writing skills, including literature searches and correct referencing.

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

A module talk introduces students to the module and explains learning/teaching methods. The combination of lectures and workshops enables students to get a combination of lecturer input, mini practical tasks and discussion, thus building up their knowledge and reflective practice skills. Workshops also give input in academic reading and writing, answer students' queries about assignments, and develop a wide range of key skills. Library skills work develops study skills and introduces referencing-management tools; here, non-synchronous online work enables students to prepare effectively for the live follow-up.

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

The assignments test the students’ knowledge of relevant theory and specifically ask them to apply it to real-life translation cases, thus enabling a reflective integration of knowledge and skill. They also enable them to put the academic reading and writing skills into action.

General Notes

N/A