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Translation and Interpreting as Product (TRAN90001)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
Overview
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Students are introduced to the major theoretical and methodological approaches for evaluating the results of translation and interpreting as textual products, including the social and cultural embedding of those products, how they are received, how they can be evaluated, and how they concern the ethics of the translation and interpreting professions. Through seminars, class activities and readings, students gain insight into the central issues in product-based translation studies. The focus is on building the knowledge and analytical skills required for the production of successful translations and interpreting renditions.
Intended learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of the main theories of translation and interpreting and their applications to the resulting texts
- Critically analyse and articulate the social and cultural embedding of start and target texts
- Apply the principles of terminology management
- Demonstrate an informed understanding of the ethics of translation and interpreting and resolve ethical dilemmas.
Generic skills
On completion of this subjects, students should have developed the following generic skills:
- Bilingual Competence: Students will develop an enhanced level of competence in both Chinese and English, with an acute capacity for metalinguistic awareness, and a preparedness to continually improve
- Intercultural understanding: Translation requires the practitioner to be deeply engaged with two cultures and to understand how to mediate between them on behalf of people who do not share both cultures
- Decision making: Translators are creative decision makers who need to draw on multiple sources of data to form judgments that are seldom clear-cut, and who are prepared to defend their decisions and to revise them when necessary.
Last updated: 8 November 2024