AUT - Translation Studies - Online Option for Extramural Students
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Translation Studies - Online Option for Extramural Students
This course prepares student both academically and practically, so that they can translate a range of documents and texts competently and efficiently.
Programme code: AK3771
Level: 6
Points: 30
Duration: 24 weeks (March to November)
Venue: Online
Starting date: 4 March 2013
Entry requirements
- Applicants are expected to have native speaker proficiency both oral and written in their first language, as well as being proficient in English
- Non-native speakers of English need to have achieved an IELTS (Academic) score of 7 or higher in reading and writing or equivalent.
- A short writing test (sent by email) will be given
- Enrolment interviews will be conducted by phone in November
Structure and content
This course aims to prepare student both academically and practically, so that they can translate a range of documents and texts competently and efficiently.
The course consists of two papers and each is twelve weeks long, with a two week break. The online weekly modules will require three hours of work, plus minimum practice time of about four hours and some reading for theory.
Students will be expected to contribute to an online blog, and share and critique another student's work in the same language as yours.
The course includes:
- reflection and awareness of translation problems
- theoretical models of the translation process and linguistic notions in translation
- ethics of the profession
- translation genres (technical, legal, medical, literary)
- translation criticism
- the business of translation and the translator's practice
- the methodology of translation
- various aspects of cross-cultural translation problems, including approaches to the translation of culture specific items
This certificate is embedded in the Diploma Interpreting and Translation, and is an exit qualification.
The course consists of two papers and each is twelve weeks long, with a two week break. The online weekly modules will require three hours of work, plus minimum practice time of about four hours and some reading for theory. Students will be expected to contribute to an online blog, and share and critique another student's work in the same language as theirs.
Papers
165027 Introduction to Translation
166006 Translation Skills: Analysis, Accuracy and Appropriateness