LAS 490

Summer 2010 Part of Term S2

Part of Term S2
(8 week) Jun 14-Aug 5

LAS Advanced Seminar

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Credit: 1 TO 6 hours.

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Approved for both letter and S/U grading. May be repeated in the same or separate terms to a maximum of 6 hours.

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LAS 490 class schedule data for summer 2010
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
35702	Independent Study		ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending		Part of Term: S2 Date Range: 06/14/10-08/05/10 Section Title: Translation Studies Practicum
35704	Lecture-Discussion	PP	2:00PM -3:20PM	MTRF	G36 Foreign Languages Building	Phillips, P McCoy, E	Part of Term: S2 Date Range: 06/14/10-08/05/10 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Commercial & Tech. Translation Section Info: This course constitutes an elective course for the Certificate in Translation Studies. It is also of interest to students of foreign languages interested in pursuing a career in business. The course covers the theoretical and practical aspects of commercial and technical translation. It also offers a unit on technical writing that will serve as the foundation for approaching the commercial and technical translation course materials. The course will begin with a unit on commercial and technical writing. Students will be expected as an outcome of this unit to produce a portfolio of business and technical documents relating to a fictional business. The second portion of the course will be spent on the topic of commercial and technical translation broadly conceived and approached from both a real-world and a theoretical perspective. Emphasis will be placed on the translator's role, the nature of technical documentation, usability from the perspective of cognitive science, usability engineering and usability assessment. Practical applications of this portion of the course include short reaction papers on readings, an assignment using TRADOS that implements the notion of iconic linking, translations of specific technical documents from a source language into English, and a final project portfolio composed of a selection of their best translations along with a usability assessment of three other user guides that have been translated from their source language into English. Undergraduate students earn 3 hours, and graduate students earn 4 hours. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
35705	Lecture-Discussion	PP1	2:00PM -3:20PM	MTRF	G36 Foreign Languages Building	Phillips, P McCoy, E	Part of Term: S2 Date Range: 06/14/10-08/05/10 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Commercial & Tech. Translation Section Info: Commercial & Tech. Translation This course constitutes an elective course for the Certificate in Translation Studies. It is also of interest to students of foreign languages interested in pursuing a career in business. The course covers the theoretical and practical aspects of commercial and technical translation. It also offers a unit on technical writing that will serve as the foundation for approaching the commercial and technical translation course materials. The course will begin with a unit on commercial and technical writing. Students will be expected as an outcome of this unit to produce a portfolio of business and technical documents relating to a fictional business. The second portion of the course will be spent on the topic of commercial and technical translation broadly conceived and approached from both a real-world and a theoretical perspective. Emphasis will be placed on the translator's role, the nature of technical documentation, usability from the perspective of cognitive science, usability engineering and usability assessment. Practical applications of this portion of the course include short reaction papers on readings, an assignment using TRADOS that implements the notion of iconic linking, translations of specific technical documents from a source language into English, and a final project portfolio composed of a selection of their best translations along with a usability assessment of three other user guides that have been translated from their source language into English. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.