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