FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Department of English Translation and Interpreting
SOCIAL MEDIA
ETI 315 | Course Introduction and Application Information
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Translation of Medical Texts
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Code
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Semester
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Theory
(hour/week) |
Application/Lab
(hour/week) |
Local Credits
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ECTS
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ETI 315
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Fall/Spring
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3
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0
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3
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6
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| Prerequisites |
None
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| Course Language |
English
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| Course Type |
Elective
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| Course Level |
First Cycle
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| Mode of Delivery | face to face | |||||
| Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | DiscussionQ&ACritical feedbackLecture / Presentation | |||||
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| Course Objectives | The objective of the course is to provide necessary knowledge and equipment to students for the translation of various medical texts such as articles, papers, reports, and prospectus and to have the students become familiar with different resources that could be used in medical translation. |
| 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 | ||
| Supportive Courses |
X
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| Media and Management Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES
| Week | Subjects | Related Preparation |
| 1 | Introduction: course requirements | |
| 2 | History of medicine Development of medical language | Jackson, Mark, ‘Introduction', in Mark Jackson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine (2011; online edn, Oxford Academic, 18 Sept. 2012), Wulff HR. The Language of Medicine. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 2004;97(4):187-188. |
| 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 | Ayfer Aydoğan, Sami Aydoğan. Tıp Çeviri Sözlüğü. (2006). Siyasal Kitabevi Newmark, Peter. “A Layman’s View of Medical Translation”. 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 | Ayfer Aydoğan, Sami Aydoğan. Tıp Çeviri Sözlüğü. (2006). Siyasal Kitabevi ISBN 6051361208 Vicent Montalt and María González Davies. Medical Translation Step by Step. (2007). St Jerome Publishing. ISBN-13: 978-1900650830 Marjorie Canfield Willis. Medical Terminology: The Language of Health Care. (2005). ISBN-13: 978-0683090550 Dr. Bruce Forciea. An e-text of Human Anatomy and Physiology. (2014). Moraine Park Technical College. ISBN-13: 978-0134763408 Julie McDowell. Encyclopedia of Human Body Systems. (2010). USA: ABC-CLIO, LLC.) ISBN-13: 978-0313391750 Jackson, Mark, ‘Introduction', in Mark Jackson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine (2011; online edn, Oxford Academic, 18 Sept. 2012), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199546497.013.0001 Wulff HR. The Language of Medicine. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 2004;97(4):187-188. |
EVALUATION SYSTEM
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | ||
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques |
4
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20
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| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments |
1
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20
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| Presentation / Jury | ||
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exams | ||
| Midterm |
1
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20
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| Final Exam |
1
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40
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| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
6
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60
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| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
1
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40
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| Total |
ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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| Theoretical Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) |
16
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3
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48
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| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours) |
16
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0
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| Study Hours Out of Class |
14
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3
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42
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| Field Work |
0
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| Quizzes / Studio Critiques |
4
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5
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20
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| Portfolio |
0
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| Homework / Assignments |
1
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20
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20
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| Presentation / Jury |
0
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| Project |
0
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| Seminar / Workshop |
0
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| Oral Exam |
0
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| Midterms |
1
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20
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20
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| Final Exam |
1
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30
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30
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| Total |
180
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COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP
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Program Competencies/Outcomes |
* Contribution Level
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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| 1 | To be able to use advanced, field-specific conceptual, theoretical, and practical knowledge acquired, |
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| 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, |
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| 3 | To be able to understand and use grammatical and semantic structures of the source and target languages, |
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| 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, |
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| 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, |
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| 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, |
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| 7 | To be able to transfer the theoretical knowledge and research skills within different areas of expertise to translational act, |
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| 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, |
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| 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, |
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| 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, |
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| 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, |
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| 12 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. |
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