Study Programmes 2015-2016
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| Literary translation (EN-FR), Part 2 | ||
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Duration :
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| 30h Th | ||
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Number of credits :
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Lecturer :
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| Emilie Piat | ||
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language | ||
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January | ||
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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
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| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | ||
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Course contents :
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| In this second part of the course students get introduced to drama and poetry translation. The obstacles to be negotiated are basically the same as with fiction but with added constraints. | ||
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| Students will have learned how to identify various forms of drama and how to produce convincing dialogues as well as how to create poems that retrieve the specific features of the original texts. | ||
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Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
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| An excellent knowledge of French (target language) and a good knowledge of English. | ||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Translation is organized in workshop with students having prepared the texts to be translated. | ||
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Face to face. 1st term in the second year of the Master's degree. See http://cipl82.philo.ulg.ac.be/horaires | ||
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Umberto Eco, Dire presque la même chose (tr. Myrem Bouzaher, 2007) Lance Hewson, An Approach to Translation Criticism: Emma and Madame Bovary in translation (2011) | ||
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| The students' competence is assessed on the basis of works they have done at home, namely the translation of some ten pages from a play and of three poems. | ||
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| At least one guest translator will lead a workshop.
Scottish poet Kate Armstrong will lead a workshop on Thursday 8th of October. |
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Contacts :
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| Emilie Piat epiat@ulg.ac.be(cpagnoulle@ulg.ac.be) | ||