TRAD0008-1

Duration

45h Th

Number of credits

	Bachelor in history of art and archaeology : general	5 crédits
	Bachelor in history	5 crédits
	Bachelor in history of art and archaeology : musicology	5 crédits

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

Assessment methods and criteria

The mark of the midterm exam in January will count for one third of the June final grade. Please note that the final exam for this course is cumulative.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Kim ANDRINGA: k.andringa@ulg.ac.be

Translation and Explication of Historical Texts : Dutch