| Course Name | Translation of Medical Texts |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ETI 315 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 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&ACritical feedbackLecturing / Presentation | |||||
| Course Coordinator | - | |||||
| Course Lecturer(s) | ||||||
| Assistant(s) | - | |||||
| Course Objectives | The objective of the course is to provide necessary knowledge and equipment for the translation of various medical texts such as articles, papers, reports, and prospectus. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This course introduces students to a specialized area of translational activity: medical translation. The course will include discussion of topics such as characteristics of medical language, challenges encountered in medical translation and strategies that can be used in translating medical texts. |
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| Core Courses | |
| Major Area Courses | X | |
| Supportive Courses | ||
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction: course requirements | |
| 2 | History of medicine Development of medical language | The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine, “Introduction” (ed. Mark Jackson, 2012) The language of medicine, Henrik R. W ulff, MD. The Royal Society of Medicine (2004) ISBN-13: 978-0323370813 |
| 3 | Medical language: Greek roots and affixes | An Introduction to Medical Terminology I. Greek and Latin Derivations, George L. Banay (1948). Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 36(1), 1–27. |
| 4 | Medical language: Latin roots and affixes | An Introduction to Medical Terminology I. Greek and Latin Derivations, George L. Banay (1948). Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 36(1), 1–27. |
| 5 | Translation of medical texts: theory and methodology | Erten, Asalet (2016). Tıp Terminolojisi ve Tıp Metinleri Çevirisi Ankara: Seçkin Yayıncılık.248s. ISBN No: 975 347 637 X. Ayfer Aydoğan, Sami Aydoğan. (2006). Siyasal Kitabevi ISBN 6051361208 “A Layman’s View of Medical Translation”. Peter Newmark. The British Medical Journal Vol. 2, No. 6202 (Dec. 1, 1979), pp. 1405-1407. |
| 6 | Types of medical documents: manuals for medical devices, equipment, and surgical instruments | Translation of sample texts |
| 7 | Types of medical documents: Scientific articles and news in medical journals | Translation of sample texts |
| 8 | Types of medical documents: Pharmaceutical translation | Translation of sample texts |
| 9 | Midterm exam | |
| 10 | Human anatomy and physiology: vocabulary building and translation | Translation of sample texts |
| 11 | Systems of the human body: vocabulary building and translation | Translation of sample texts |
| 12 | Branches of medicine: vocabulary building and translation | Translation of sample texts |
| 13 | Disorders and diseases: vocabulary building and translation | Translation of sample texts |
| 14 | Diagnosis and treatment: vocabulary building and translation | Translation of sample texts |
| 15 | Review of the semester | |
| 16 | Final Exam |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | |
| Suggested Readings/Materials | Erten, Asalet (2003). Tıp Terminolojisi ve Tıp Metinleri Çevirisi Ankara: Seçkin Yayıncılık.248s. ISBN No: 975 347 637 X |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | ||
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | 4 | 20 |
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 20 |
| Presentation / Jury | ||
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | 1 | 20 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 40 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 6 | 60 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 40 |
| 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 | 4 | 5 | |
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 10 | |
| Presentation / Jury | |||
| Project | |||
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | 1 | 10 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 20 | |
| Total | 150 |
| # | 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, | 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, | X | ||||
| 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, | |||||
| 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, | |||||
| 12 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. | |||||
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