Postgraduate Course: Gender and Translation (CLLC11146)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | The course focuses on the convergence of gender-related issues and translation studies. |
| Course description |
The course aims at:
* encouraging critical thinking on the relationships between translation and gender, and language and gender;
* introducing the central concepts of gender-conscious approaches to translation;
* showing how these approaches could be implemented in terms of various translation strategies;
* broadening the students' perspectives on a variety of issues, such as gender in religious texts, gender and postcolonialism, translation of feminist theories, translation of camp, 'inclusive' language, translation of misogynistic work, etc.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of a range of theories and concepts in gender-conscious approaches to translation
- Demonstrate a critical awareness of current issues in relation to gender and translation, which impinges on other areas such as politics, religion, literature, science, etc
- Apply critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis to issues that are informed by recent developments in the subject
- Identify, conceptualise and define new and abstract problems and issues in relation to gender and translation.
- Synthesise theoretical, critical and textual skills with reflective insight
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Independent critical and analytical thought
Information retrieval
Presenting the information retrieved through reasoned and reflective arguments
Text production on a professional level, a vital skill for translators
Thinking and writing clearly
General IT skills
General bibliographical skills
Time management |
| Keywords | GaT |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Sebnem Susam-Saraeva
Tel: (0131 6)51 1373
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Course secretary | Miss Charlotte McLean
Tel: (0131 6)50 4114
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