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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures : Asian Studies

Undergraduate Course: Japanese Language 4B-1 (combined) (ASST10123)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis course provides non-native Japanese students with the essential translation skills, also covering relevant theoretical implications. The work is on a wide range of exercises and activities, which include speed translation, reading of parallel texts, synopsis writing in the target language, and evaluation of text translated by both human and non-human translators.

All students will be given a formative feedback exercise that will be helpful for the assessment for this course and students' general academic development.
Course description Course schedule:

Week 1 Introductory lecture (no tutorial)
Week 2 Lecture 2: Contrastive Language Studies
Week 3 E-J tutorial (lec-2 tutorial)
Week 4 E-J tutorial (lec-2 tutorial)
Week 5 Lecture-3: Language skills for Literary Translation
Week 6 E-J tutorial (lec-3 tutorial)
Week 7 E-J tutorial (lec-3 tutorial)
Week 8 Lecture-4: Support tools in Translation Practice
Week 9 E-J tutorial (lec-4 tutorial)
Week 10 E-J tutorial (lec-4 tutorial)
Week 11 Lecture-5 (no tutorial)
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students will be able to produce accurate, effective and natural translations in the target language.
Reading List
This course has a strong practical orientation, thus there is no reading list.
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Designed to develop following transferable skills:
Language analysis, planning, product evaluation, collaboration, and presentation.
KeywordsAS Jap Lang 4B1
Contacts
Course organiserDr Yoko Sturt
Tel: (0131 6)50 4228
Email: y.m.sturt@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMr David Horn
Tel: (0131 6)50 4227
Email: david.horn@ed.ac.uk
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