FRENCH 320
French Translation Practice
Please note: this is archived course information from 2017 for FRENCH 320.
Description
This course is designed for students wishing to develop practical translation skills and provides an introduction to professional translation.
All lectures/classes will have a hands-on, practical focus. The course will include: Introduction to translation, contrastive analysis, translation of journalistic and literary texts during the first half of the course followed by a selection among academic, administrative, technical and consumer-oriented texts.
By the end of this course, students will have gained the skills needed to accurately translate a variety of text types from French into English, for a variety of target audiences. Students will also learn how to tackle sentence-level translation from English into French.
Availability 2017
Not taught in 2017
Lecturer(s)
Lecturer(s) Associate Professor Tracy Adams
Dr Trudy Agar
Reading/Texts
Hervey and Higgins, Thinking French Translation, Routledge, 2002
Assessment
Coursework + exam
Points
FRENCH 320: 15 points
Prerequisites
FRENCH 304
Restrictions
FRENCH 720