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Course orientation and expectations; communicating with translation clients/employers, analyzing translation briefs, and determining strategies based on text types. |
In-class discussion and practice |
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Reading the assigned material |
Discourse Analysis and Register: Analyzing texts based on style, tone, and target audience. Exercises on accurately capturing the appropriate register in formal, academic, corporate, and informal texts. |
In-class discussion and practice |
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Reading the assigned material |
Corporate Communication and Marketing Translation: Translating advertisements, brochures, PR releases, and brand copy. Application of "transcreation" techniques over literal translation. |
In-class discussion and practice |
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Reading the assigned material |
Technical Texts and Terminology Management: Practical work on user manuals, technical specifications, and product catalogs. |
In-class discussion and practice |
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Reading the assigned material |
Legal Translation Workshop I: Translating commercial contracts, Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs), and authorizations. Fixed expressions and formulaic language in legal contexts. |
In-class discussion and practice |
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Reading the assigned material |
Legal Translation Workshop II: Official Documents and Court Records: Practical work on birth/death certificates, diplomas/transcripts, court rulings, and powers of attorney. |
In-class discussion and practice |
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Reading the assigned material |
Medical and Health Sciences Texts: Translation and terminology exercises on informed consent forms, epicrisis reports, and patient information leaflets. |
In-class discussion and practice |
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Reading the assigned material |
Media and Popular Culture Texts: Translating news articles, interviews, columns, and digital content. |
In-class discussion and practice |
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Reading the assigned material |
Translation Technologies, CAT Tool Usage, and Terminology: Working with translation memories (TM) and termbases (TB). Project setup, segmentation, and automated Quality Assurance (QA) checks. |
In-class discussion and practice |
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MID-TERM EXAM |
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Reading the assigned material |
Machine Translation and AI Post-Editing (MTPE): Analyzing Neural Machine Translation (NMT) outputs; Light Editing vs. Full Editing concepts; workshop on detecting and correcting AI errors. |
In-class discussion and practice |
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Reading the assigned material |
Revision, Editing, and Proofreading Practice |
In-class discussion and practice |
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Reading the assigned material |
Digital Content and Localization (L10n): Localizing websites, mobile applications, and video game texts. |
In-class discussion and practice |
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Reading the assigned material |
Review of final translation portfolios compiled by students throughout the semester and general evaluation. |
In-class discussion and practice |
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Reading the assigned material |
Review of final translation portfolios compiled by students throughout the semester and general evaluation. |
In-class discussion and practice |
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FINAL EXAM |
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FINAL EXAM |
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