FRENCH 320

French Translation Practice

Please note: this is archived course information from 2019 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. Introduction to translation, contrastive analysis, translation of journalistic and literary texts will be included in 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.

Assessment

Coursework + exam

Availability 2019

Not offered in 2019; planned for 2020

Lecturer(s)

Lecturer(s) Associate Professor Tracy Adams

Reading/Texts

Hervey and Higgins, Thinking French Translation, Routledge, 2002.

Assessment

Coursework + exam

Points

FRENCH 320: 15 points

Prerequisites

FRENCH 304

Restrictions

FRENCH 720