MALA 61353 Translation in Society
Students in this course will not only study translation but they will also actually translate. For example, they will learn early on how a recent winner of the most prestigious international prize for the translation of a work of fiction is but a novice and not even a speaker of the language she was translating from. Students go on to investigate theories of translation as applied to a wide range of different genres of texts and communication situations; in addition, they review critically the varied and most valued practices of translating. During the course, then, the students will work with one another on individual or group translation projects of their choosing. By the end of the semester, the students will be such experts on translation in society that they themselves will confidently enter their own work in a university-sponsored translation prize contest judged by a world-renowned translator.