COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR NAFIZE SIBEL GÜZEL

Offered to

ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING

Course Objective

This course aims to introduce the students to post structuralist, deconstructivist, reader oriented criticisms. Not seeing the text as an organic whole, students are encouraged to sense the implied meanings in the texts employing psychoanalytical, gender oriented, new historical, cultural materialistic, post- colonial approaches.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Translation: Ethics, Ideology, Action by Maria Tymoczko in Massachusetts Review, 2006.
2. The Mother Tongues of Modernity: Modernism, Transnationalism, Translation by Roland Vegso, in Journal of Modern Literature, 2010.
3. The Translation of Philosophy by Jonathan Rée in New Literary History, 2001.
4. Writing the Wrongs of Literature: The figure of the Feminist and Post Colonial Translator by Melissa Wallace, 2002.
5. The Rhetoric of Translation by Peter France, in The Modern language Review, 2005.
6. Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice, Charles Bressler, Pearson, New Jersey. 2007.
7. Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory, Peter Barry , Manchester U.P. Manchester& New York, 1995.
8. Contemporary Literary Theory and the Reading of Poetry, David Buchbinder, The Macmillan Company, Melbourne, 1991.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Face to face and interactive courses. Students are expected to come class having read the assigned texts which are given to them weekly and to participate in class discussions and practices. Students are also expected to submit two midterm papers based on invidual research.

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1. Two midterm exams and a final exam will be given throughout the term.
2. Students are expected to come class having read the texts that are assigned to them weekly and to participate in class discussions and practices. Students are also expected to submit response papers based on invidual research.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. Attendance is required
2. Homeworks must be handed in on the due date.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

sibel.guzel@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes