Translation - Theory and History

Code:

MEAAM021

Acronym:

TTH

Instance: 2011/2012 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Anglo-American Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Masters in Anglo-American Studies

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
EAAT	0	Course Programme	1	-	6	-
MEAA	4	Study Plan since 2007/2008	1	-	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Aims:
This seminar aims to acquaint students with various moments and modes of translation as a practice, but also as the object of a variety of discourses. Particular emphasis will be laid on the relations between translation, intellectual history and the history of literary criticism from the mid-twentieth century. This will highlight the theoretical framework – from structuralism to poststructuralism to the so-called “cultural turn” – that has enabled the emergence of “translation studies” as an academic domain strongly determined by a trans-disciplinary rationale. The seminar will contribute to a sharper understanding of the process that has promoted translation to a prominence in academic discourse that would have been unthinkable before the final quarter of the twentieth century.
Skills:
the course will address and enhance the students' capacity to consider and discuss a broad range of theoretical texts on translation, and to position such texts against the contexts of intellectual history that frame and to some extent determine them.
Results:
by the end of the semester students should prove familiar with the variability but also the elements of continuity that characterise discourses on translation; they should also understand how closely related such discourses are to key features in cultural and intellectual history.

Program

This course will be based on a set of texts that will allow discourse on translation to be historically delineated and situated. Such texts will also help promote a critical articulation of the aforementioned discourse with features of contemporary intellectual history.

Teaching methods and learning activities

The course will be run on a seminar basis

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Eligibility for exams

a) active participation in the seminars: 25%
b) an oral presentation on a predefined subject: 75%

Students are expected to attend at least 75% of all seminar sessions

Calculation formula of final grade

Weighted avarage of the results of the components mentioned above.

Examinations or Special Assignments

n/a

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

n/a

Classification improvement

n/a