TRAD0008-1 : Translation and Explication of Historical Texts : Dutch

Study Programmes 2016-2017

TRAD0008-1

Translation and Explication of Historical Texts : Dutch

Duration :

45h Th

Number of credits :

Bachelor in history of art and archaeology : general		3
Bachelor in history		4
Bachelor in history of art and archaeology : musicology		4

Lecturer :

Kim Andringa

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

All year long, with partial in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents :

The texts studied in class mainly focus on the contemporary period. This course also provides students with an introduction to the reading of older Dutch texts. Grammatical difficulties will occasionally be reviewed. Otherwise, practical translation exercises. Each week students will prepare at least one page from a historical text.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit :

At the end of the class, the student will be able to understand in detail an authentic (academic) text (source, study) dealing with an historical subject and to translate it into French.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

The course is conceived as a seminar. Attention will be paid to the students' reading skills as well as to the extension of their lexical and grammatical knowledge in Dutch. During the class, the students' translations will corrected and commented upon. The seminar will be supllemented by lectures in which the main points of translation theory as well as the main linguistic features of ancient and modern Dutch historical texts will be discussed.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

Face-to-face teaching