| Course Name | Literary Translation II |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| ETI 306 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Elective | |||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | face to face | |||||
| Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | DiscussionQ&ALecturing / Presentation | |||||
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| Course Lecturer(s) | - | |||||
| Assistant(s) | - | |||||
| Course Objectives | Examining the basic concepts, the stages and different strategies in literary translation, developing solutions to deal with problems during the translation stage, examining the editing process in translated texts, descriptively analyzing and criticizing translated texts |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | In this course, translation of different literary genres will be discussed. Skills of conducting research preliminary to the translation process, determining appropriate translational strategies, and proofreading and editingbah will be improved. Descriptive translation criticism will be addressed. |
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| Core Courses | |
| Major Area Courses | X | |
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| Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction to Literary Translation | Ece, Ayşe. “The Trajectory of Literary Translation: From Interpretation to Rewriting and a New Life.” Synergies Turquie, no. 8, 2015, pp. 145-155. İçöz, Nihan. “Considering the Ethics in Translation.” Electronic Journal of Vocational Colleges, 2012, pp. 131-4. |
| 2 | Definition and Elements of Poetry Poetry in Literary Translation (Introducing poetry and translating a selected poem/poems) | Landers, Clifford E. “Some Notes on Translating Poetry.” Literary Translation: Practical Guide, Multilingual Matters, 2001, pp. 97-101. |
| 3 | Women’s Writing & Translating a short story by Kate Chopin | Şulha, Pelin. “Chopin’s Desiree’s Baby and its translation into Turkish: a stylistic approach.” Social and Behavioural Sciences, no. 158, 2014, pp. 273-8. |
| 4 | Children’s Literature: Revieving Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner and Midterm Exam | Tanku, Piro. “Translation Implication for Cultural and Literary Equivalence in Translating Fairy Tales.” Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, 2013, pp. 463-470. |
| 5 | Translating a Satire: Discussing the definition of a satire, the problems in translating a satire and translation strategies Translating Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” | A chapter from Broeder, Linda. Translating a Humor: The Problems of Translating Terry Pratchett. 2007. Utrecht University, MA Thesis. |
| 6 | Translating Food in Postcolonial Texts and Final Exam | “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” in Encyclopedia of the American Short Story (2013) ISBN: 978-1-4381-4075-9 |
| 7 | Review of the Semester | |
| 8 | Review of the Semester | |
| 9 | Review of the Semester | |
| 10 | Review of the Semester | |
| 11 | Review of the Semester | |
| 12 | Review of the Semester | |
| 13 | Review of the Semester | |
| 14 | Review of the Semester | |
| 15 | Review of the Semester | |
| 16 | Review of the Semester |
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| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | ||
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 30 |
| Presentation / Jury | ||
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | 1 | 30 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 40 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 3 | 65 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 35 |
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 42 |
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 45 | |
| Presentation / Jury | |||
| Project | |||
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | 1 | 50 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 55 | |
| Total | 240 |
| # | 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, | |||||
| 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, | |||||
| 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, | X | ||||
| 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, | |||||
| 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, | X | ||||
| 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, | X | ||||
| 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, | |||||
| 12 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. | |||||
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