Undergraduate Course: Japanese Language 4B-1 (combined) (ASST10123)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures | 
College | College of Humanities and Social Science | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) | 
Availability | Not available to visiting students | 
 
| SCQF Credits | 10 | 
ECTS Credits | 5 | 
 
 
| Summary | This course provides non-native Japanese students with the essential translation skills, also covering relevant theoretical implications. The work is on a wide range of exercises and activities, which include speed translation, reading of parallel texts, synopsis writing in the target language, and evaluation of text translated by both human and non-human translators. 
 
All students will be given a formative feedback exercise that will be helpful for the assessment for this course and students' general academic development. | 
 
| Course description | 
    
    Course schedule: 
 
Week 1		Introductory lecture (no tutorial)  			 
Week 2		Lecture 2: Contrastive Language Studies		 
Week 3	 	E-J tutorial (lec-2 tutorial)				 
Week 4	 	E-J tutorial (lec-2 tutorial)				 
Week 5	 	Lecture-3: Language skills for Literary Translation 	 
Week 6	  	E-J tutorial (lec-3 tutorial)				 
Week 7  	E-J tutorial (lec-3 tutorial)				 
Week 8   	Lecture-4: Support tools in Translation Practice		 
Week 9  	E-J tutorial (lec-4 tutorial)  				 
Week 10 	E-J tutorial (lec-4 tutorial)  				 
Week 11  	Lecture-5 (no tutorial)		       	 
    
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites | 
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Co-requisites |  | 
 
| Prohibited Combinations |  | 
Other requirements |  None | 
 
| Additional Costs |  None | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |   
Learning Outcomes 
|     By the end of this course, students will be able to produce accurate, effective and natural translations in the target language.
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Reading List 
| This course has a strong practical orientation, thus there is no reading list. |   
 
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills | 
Designed to develop following transferable skills:  
Language analysis, planning, product evaluation, collaboration, and presentation. 
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| Keywords | AS Jap Lang 4B1 | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Dr Yoko Sturt 
Tel: (0131 6)50 4228 
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Course secretary | Mr David Horn 
Tel: (0131 6)50 4227 
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