Course Name | Introduction to Interpreting |
Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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ETI 212 | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
Prerequisites | None | |||||
Course Language | English | |||||
Course Type | Required | |||||
Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
Mode of Delivery | face to face | |||||
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | DiscussionQ&A | |||||
Course Coordinator | - | |||||
Course Lecturer(s) | ||||||
Assistant(s) | - |
Course Objectives | This course aims to develop note-taking and listening skills for interpreting as well as skills for transferring the information in the notes in source language and summarizing such information in target language. |
Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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Course Description | This course prepares student for their interpreting classes. Students listen to authentic audio and video materials and take notes. Students finally convey what they have listened to and perform a summary translation of it based on their notes and memory. |
Related Sustainable Development Goals | |
| Core Courses | X |
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Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
Transferable Skill Courses |
Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
1 | Introduction and Requirements | |
2 | Introduction to Interpreting Interpreting Types | Robin Setton, Andrew Dawrant, chap. 2.2 and 2.3.1 “Modes of interpreting” and “Domains and Settings” in Consecutive Interpreting: A Complete Course (Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016), 16-20, 21-42, ISBN: 978-90-272-5862-5 |
3 | Note Taking for Consecutive Translation Various Exercises | Jean-François Rozan, The 7 principles of note-taking [Online: http://interpretertrainingresources.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rozan7principles.pdf]. Andrew Dawrant, Robin Setton, “Consecutive Interpreting”, chap. 5 in Conference Interpreting: A Complete Course, (Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016), 133-205, ISBN: 978-90-272-5862-5. |
4 | Note Taking for Consecutive Translation Various Exercises | Jean-François Rozan, The 7 principles of note-taking [Online: http://interpretertrainingresources.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rozan7principles.pdf]. Andrew Dawrant, Robin Setton, “Consecutive Interpreting”, chap. 5 in Conference Interpreting: A Complete Course, (Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016), 133-205, ISBN: 978-90-272-5862-5. |
5 | Note Taking for Consecutive Translation Various Exercises | Jean-François Rozan, The 7 principles of note-taking [Online: http://interpretertrainingresources.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rozan7principles.pdf]. Andrew Dawrant, Robin Setton, “Consecutive Interpreting”, chap. 5 in Conference Interpreting: A Complete Course, (Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016), 133-205, ISBN: 978-90-272-5862-5. |
6 | Note taking of names and numbers, Various Exercises | James Nolan, “Numbers”, chap. 17 in Interpretation: techniques and exercises, 2nd edition, (Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2012), 288-293, ISBN: 9781847698094. |
7 | Listening, Note taking and Re-expression exercises | ORCIT – SCIC [online: https://orcit.eu/resources-shelf-en/story_html5.html] Speech Repository [online: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/sr/] Audio-recordings from various sources |
8 | Listening, Note taking and Re-expression exercises | ORCIT – SCIC [online: https://orcit.eu/resources-shelf-en/story_html5.html] Speech Repository [online: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/sr/] Audio-recordings from various sources |
9 | Midterm Exam | |
10 | Listening, Note taking and Re-expression exercises | ORCIT – SCIC [online: https://orcit.eu/resources-shelf-en/story_html5.html] Audio-recordings from various sources |
11 | Listening, Note taking and Re-expression exercises | ORCIT – SCIC [online: https://orcit.eu/resources-shelf-en/story_html5.html] Speech Repository [online: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/sr/] Audio-recordings from various sources |
12 | Listening, Note taking and Re-expression exercises | ORCIT – SCIC [online: https://orcit.eu/resources-shelf-en/story_html5.html] Speech Repository [online: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/sr/] Audio-recordings from various sources |
13 | Listening, Note taking and Re-expression exercises, Inroduction into Consecutive Interpreting | ORCIT – SCIC [online: https://orcit.eu/resources-shelf-en/story_html5.html] Speech Repository [online: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/sr/] Audio-recordings from various sources |
14 | Listening, Note taking and Re-expression exercises, Inroduction into Consecutive Interpreting | ORCIT – SCIC [online: https://orcit.eu/resources-shelf-en/story_html5.html] Speech Repository [online: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/sr/] Audio-recordings from various sources |
15 | Review of the semester | |
16 | Final Exam |
Course Notes/Textbooks | ORCIT – SCIC [online: https://orcit.eu/resources-shelf-en/story_html5.html] Speech Repository [online: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/sr/] James Nolan, Interpretation: techniques and exercises, 2nd edition, (Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2012), ISBN: 9781847698094. Andrew Dawrant, Robin Setton, Conference Interpreting: A Complete Course, (Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016), ISBN: 978-90-272-5862-5. Jean-François Rozan, The 7 principles of note-taking [Online: http://interpretertrainingresources.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rozan7principles.pdf]. |
Suggested Readings/Materials | Franz Pöchhacker, Introducing interpreting studies (London and New York: Routledge, 2016), ISBN: 9780415742726. Roderick Jones, Conference interpreting explained (London and New York: Routledge, 2014), ISBN: 9781900650571. |
Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
Participation | 1 | 10 |
Laboratory / Application | ||
Field Work | ||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | - | - |
Portfolio | ||
Homework / Assignments | 1 | 10 |
Presentation / Jury | ||
Project | ||
Seminar / Workshop | ||
Oral Exam | ||
Midterm | 1 | 35 |
Final Exam | 1 | 45 |
Total |
Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 3 | 55 |
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 45 |
Total |
Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 2 | 28 |
Field Work | |||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | - | - | |
Portfolio | |||
Homework / Assignments | 1 | 15 | |
Presentation / Jury | |||
Project | |||
Seminar / Workshop | |||
Oral Exam | |||
Midterms | 1 | 25 | |
Final Exams | 1 | 35 | |
Total | 151 |
# | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
1 | To be able to use advanced, field-specific conceptual, theoretical, and practical knowledge acquired, | X | ||||
2 | To be able to analyze and research field-specific concepts and ideas and to interpret data individually or as a team using scientific methods, | |||||
3 | To be able to understand and use grammatical and semantic structures of the source and target languages, | X | ||||
4 | To be able to obtain information about social, cultural, and historical approaches within the source and target languages and to use this information for textual analysis and production, | |||||
5 | To be able to understand and interpret written and oral texts in the source language and to transfer these texts into the target language using a semantically and functionally appropriate language, | X | ||||
6 | To be able to produce creative translations and assess the translation products critically by defining the steps, strategies and problems in the translation process in the light of field-specific theoretical knowledge and skills acquired, | |||||
7 | To be able to transfer the theoretical knowledge and research skills within different areas of expertise to translational act, | |||||
8 | To be able to use computer-assisted translation tools and machine translation effectively at each step of the translation process, and to follow the theoretical and practical developments in these fields, | |||||
9 | To be able to gain awareness of the translator’s social role, job profile, and professional ethical values and to acquire workload management skills for individual or team work, | X | ||||
10 | To be able to access necessary sources to improve quality at each step of the translation process and to assess the target text in accordance with the quality objectives by using these sources, | |||||
11 | To be able to establish effective oral and written communication skills both in English and Turkish, to be able to speak a second foreign language at a good level, to be able to use a third foreign language at intermediate level, | X | ||||
12 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. |
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