Undergraduate Course: Japanese Language 4B-1 (combined) (ASST10123)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This 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)
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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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.
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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.
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| Keywords | AS Jap Lang 4B1 |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Yoko Sturt
Tel: (0131 6)50 4228
Email: y.m.sturt@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr David Horn
Tel: (0131 6)50 4227
Email: david.horn@ed.ac.uk |
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