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LN5529: ENGAGING WITH TEXTS (2018-2019)

Last modified: 22 May 2019 17:07


Course Overview

This course will enhance the students' textual awareness from the communicative, functionality, understanding and stylistic points of view.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Session Second Sub Session Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Online Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Maria Sanchez-Ortiz

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course will:

Increase students' critical awareness of how to engage with texts.

Train students to edit and manipulate texts.

Enable students to identify and analyse different styles in the ST and be able to reproduce them in the TT.

Train students to be able to synthesize source materials in academic writing.

Train students to be able to crease synthesized versions of a ST to be used in translation.


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

More Information about Week Numbers


Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 31 August 2023 for 1st half-session courses and 22 December 2023 for 2nd half-session courses.

Summative Assessments

Translation exercise (30%), translation exercise (25%), translation exercise (20%), participation/discussion board (15%), translation exercise (10%).

Resit: resubmission of failed element(s)

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Feedback

Written and oral feedback.

Course Learning Outcomes

None.

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