COMM4213-2021S2 English Language and the Media

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TRAN4214-2021S2 Project/Practicum

The project represents the culmination of the students’ training. It is a large-scale assignment that is meant to show the students’ abilities in handling translation projects at the different linguistic and professional levels required. Each student is to be assigned to a project supervisor who will produce a report on the progress stages and achievements. The project is to be discussed and evaluated in a mini viva.

In the practicum variant, the student is placed in a professional environment for the total duration of the term under local supervision. The local supervisor is to submit a report on the performance of the student. The student has to submit an extended report at the end of the training period detailing the tasks performed with an analytical evaluation of the work. The project is to be discussed and evaluated in a mini viva.

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TRAN4212-2021S2 Introduction to Interperting

This course is designed to introduce the field of interpreting and serves as an initiation to this profession. Students will be exposed to the techniques related to consecutive and simultaneous interpreting applied to a variety of language chunks. Throughout the course, students will be trained to deal with the basic problems and psychological constraints associated with interpreting. The course material focuses on English and Arabic spoken discourse through a selection of discourse types.

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TRAN4211-2021S2 Legal Translation

This course addresses English-Arabic translation of legal documents, covering a range of legal subtypes, including informational documents (e.g. academic legal books and articles), common legal documents (e.g. court cases), and legislative documents (e.g. contracts, decrees, treaties, conventions, agreements, constitutions). Full consideration will be given to lexical, syntactic, and textual features of English and Arabic Legal discourse and to problems of legal equivalence.

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