FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Department of English Translation and Interpreting
SOCIAL MEDIA
ETI 470 | Course Introduction and Application Information
| Course Name |
History of Translation
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Code
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Semester
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Theory
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Application/Lab
(hour/week) |
Local Credits
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ECTS
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ETI 470
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Spring
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3
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0
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3
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5
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| Prerequisites |
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| Course Language |
English
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| Course Type |
Required
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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 | Q&ACritical feedbackLecture / Presentation | |||||||
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| Course Objectives | This course aims to investigate the translation phenomenon with its social, economic and cultural dimensions from past to present within the context of multilingualism and multiculturalism. The students will be able to learn how to prepare a study related to translation history and finalized it through an analytic and diachronic perspective. |
| Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | In this course, students will be able to assess the importance of translators and translations in Eastern and Western traditions by focusing the world translation history. It requires students to compare the translators’ discourses in history and today within the context of product, process and agency oriented perspective by gaining awareness about translation history. |
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Core Courses | |
| Major Area Courses |
X
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| Supportive Courses | ||
| Media and Management Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES
| Week | Subjects | Related Preparation |
| 1 | Introduction: What is translation history? | |
| 2 | Ancient Times: Egyptian and Mesopotamian Civilizations and Invention of the First Alphabets | “Translation and the Invention of Alphabets” in Delisle, Jean and Judith Woodsworth. Eds. Translators Through History. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: J. Benjamins. 2012. 7-25. ISBN: 9789027224514 |
| 3 | Medieval Translators of Hellenic Civilization: Greek and Latin and the Emergence of Vernacular Languages I | “Translation and the Development of National Lanugages-English & French” in Delisle, Jean and Judith Woodsworth. Eds. Translators Through History. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: J. Benjamins. 2012 25-67. ISBN:9789027224514 |
| 4 | Medieval Translators of Hellenic Civilization: Greek and Latin and the Emergence of Vernacular Languages II | "Translation and the Development of National Lanugages- German &Hebrew” in Delisle, Jean and Judith Woodsworth. Eds. Translators Through History. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: J. Benjamins. 2012. 25-67. ISBN: 9789027224514 |
| 5 | Translations/Translators in the Early Middle Ages in the Arab World I Translations/Translators in the Early Middle Ages in the Arab World II | “Baghdad” in Delisle, Jean and Judith Woodsworth. Eds. Translators Through History. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: J. Benjamins. 2012. 112115. “Arabic Tradition” in Baker, Mona. Ed. Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies. London, New York: Routledge. 2001.ISBN: 9789027224514 |
| 6 | The School of Toledo | “Spanish Tradition” in Baker, Mona. Ed. Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies. London, New York: Routledge. 2001. ISBN: 9780415609845 |
| 7 | Translators and the Emergence of National Literatures | “Translators and the Emergence of National Literatures” In Delisle, Jean and Judith Woodsworth. Eds. Translators Through History, 67-101..Amsterdam, Philadelphia: J. Benjamins. 2012. ISBN: 9789027224514 |
| 8 | Mid-Term Exam | |
| 9 | Project Studies | |
| 10 | Project Studies | |
| 11 | Project Studies | |
| 12 | Project Presentation | - |
| 13 | Project Presentation | - |
| 14 | Project Presentation | - |
| 15 | Semester Review | |
| 16 | PROJECT SUBMISSION (Final Exam) |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Delisle, Jean and Judith Woodsworth. (Eds). (2012).Translators Through History. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: J. Benjamins. 7-25. ISBN:39001100167561.
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| Suggested Readings/Materials | · “Greek Tradition” (428-438) · “Latin Tradition” (497-505) · “British Tradition” (333-347) · “French Tradition” (409-417) · “American Tradition” (305-316) · “Latin American Tradition” (505-512) · “Spanish tradition” (552-563) in Baker, Mona. Ed. Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies. London, New York: Routledge. (2001).0-4125517-1 |
EVALUATION SYSTEM
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | ||
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | ||
| Presentation / Jury |
2
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30
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| Project |
2
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40
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| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exams | ||
| Midterm |
1
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30
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| Final Exam | ||
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
5
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100
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| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | ||
| 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 |
0
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| Field Work |
0
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| Quizzes / Studio Critiques |
0
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| Portfolio |
0
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| Homework / Assignments |
0
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| Presentation / Jury |
2
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11
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22
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| Project |
2
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20
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40
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| Seminar / Workshop |
0
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| Oral Exam |
0
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| Midterms |
1
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40
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40
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| Final Exam |
0
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| Total |
150
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COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP
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Program Competencies/Outcomes |
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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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