TRAN 8002ABF
TRAN 8002ABF |
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職場翻譯實務 |
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Course Coordinator:
Dr Kelly Chan Kar Yue, BA (Hons); MA (CityUHK); PhD (Edinburgh)
Aims
The course provides students a chance to understand translation as a professional practice, prepare them for challenges in the industry and equip them with the necessary language knowledge, translation techniques and editing skills. Students will be introduced to a variety of methods and approaches to deal with problems in translating from English to Chinese and from Chinese to English. Students will have the opportunity to put their developing translation skills to test.
Contents
The course covers the following topics:
Learning support
The course is divided into three sections, each with a specific theoretical focus and relevant practical application. In the first section of the course, students will be introduced to basic translation theories and they will learn the essentials of applying theories under real-life contexts. During the second section, students will explore more theoretical perspectives, which can be leveraged for performing translation tasks that require professional knowledge and competence. In the third section, students will learn about some key issues in the translation for literary texts, and will benefit from the complexity of the translation ideas involved and the related debates in the translation arena. The course is designed to follow an upward learning curve, in which students will be tasked to perform more complicated translation tasks and examine increasingly contentious issues along the passage of the course. Each section is followed by one in-class workshop in which students will be required to translate different texts, and then critically present, discuss and comment on each other's works.
Assessment
There will be two assignments (25% each) and three in-class workshops (15% each). Class participation will count for 5%.
Online requirement
Students are required to submit assignments via the Online Learning Environment (OLE).
