LAS 490

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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 spring 2012
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
57155	Lecture-Discussion	2G	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	156 English Building	McCoy, E Lakhtikova, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/12-05/02/12 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Russian Literary Translation Section Info: THE PRACTICE OF RUSSIAN TRANSLATION. This course is for professionally-oriented students who are interested in academic, government, NGO, or private sector careers and/or who are planning to be in contact with Russian-speaking countries or use Russian in the course of their careers. The students will enhance their professional skills by learning to translate in workshop format primarily into their native language. The students will also work with documents that are vital for their career development and relevant for their field of study, such as CVs, business letters, academic articles, government documents, manuals, etc. The students will explore cultural, linguistic and technical differences in a number of written discourses in commercial, literary, political or technical idioms. Instruction will be differentiated for native Russian, heritage Russian, and American Russian language learners. Three real-life translation assignments and daily translation exercises. Conducted in English and Russian. Meets with RUSS 474. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
57156	Lecture-Discussion	2U	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	156 English Building	McCoy, E Lakhtikova, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/12-05/02/12 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Russian Literary Translation Section Info: THE PRACTICE OF RUSSIAN TRANSLATION. This course is for professionally-oriented students who are interested in academic, government, NGO, or private sector careers and/or who are planning to be in contact with Russian-speaking countries or use Russian in the course of their careers. The students will enhance their professional skills by learning to translate in workshop format primarily into their native language. The students will also work with documents that are vital for their career development and relevant for their field of study, such as CVs, business letters, academic articles, government documents, manuals, etc. The students will explore cultural, linguistic and technical differences in a number of written discourses in commercial, literary, political or technical idioms. Instruction will be differentiated for native Russian, heritage Russian, and American Russian language learners. Three real-life translation assignments and daily translation exercises. Conducted in English and Russian. Meets with RUSS 474, REES 496, and REES 596. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
56420	Lecture-Discussion	EUS	ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending	Endres, A	Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/12/12-05/02/12 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Credit: 1 hours Section Title: Res Des & Tech: Euro Union Stu Section Info: THE PRACTICE OF RUSSIAN TRANSLATION. This course is for professionally-oriented students who are interested in academic, government, NGO, or private sector careers and/or who are planning to be in contact with Russian-speaking countries or use Russian in the course of their careers. The students will enhance their professional skills by learning to translate in workshop format primarily into their native language. The students will also work with documents that are vital for their career development and relevant for their field of study, such as CVs, business letters, academic articles, government documents, manuals, etc. The students will explore cultural, linguistic and technical differences in a number of written discourses in commercial, literary, political or technical idioms. Instruction will be differentiated for native Russian, heritage Russian, and American Russian language learners. Three real-life translation assignments and daily translation exercises. Conducted in English and Russian. Meets with RUSS 474, REES 496, and REES 596.
54271	Online	ONL	ARRANGED	n.a.	n.a.	Phillips, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/12-05/02/12 Credit: 3 hours
56419	Lecture-Discussion	SP3	4:00PM -6:20PM	W	G27 Foreign Languages Building	Phillips, P McCoy, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/12-05/02/12 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Translation in European Union Section Info: Topic: Translation in the European Union. This course focuses on language policy and the role of the translator as mediator and communicator in Europe's multilingual and multicultural societies. It is open to students interested in how translation is done in EU institutions and other international organizations. It seeks to answer the question of how multi-lingual individuals are trained and how they apply their skills to ensure that the EU multicultural project will flourish thanks to this diversity. The course is open to all undergraduate and graduate students and will be of particular interest to students in foreign languages, cultures, and linguistics, political science, international studies, European Union Studies, law and business. The course counts as an elective toward the Certificate in Translation Studies. It is a preparatory course for the 2-4 week summer study abroad course - can be taken whether or not you take the study abroad trip.
57128	Lecture-Discussion	SP4	4:00PM -6:20PM	W	G27 Foreign Languages Building	Phillips, P McCoy, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/12-05/02/12 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Translation in European Union Section Info: Topic: Translation in the European Union. This course focuses on language policy and the role of the translator as mediator and communicator in Europe's multilingual and multicultural societies. It is open to students interested in how translation is done in EU institutions and other international organizations. It seeks to answer the question of how multi-lingual individuals are trained and how they apply their skills to ensure that the EU multicultural project will flourish thanks to this diversity. The course is open to all undergraduate and graduate students and will be of particular interest to students in foreign languages, cultures, and linguistics, political science, international studies, European Union Studies, law and business. The course counts as an elective toward the Certificate in Translation Studies. It is a preparatory course for the 2-4 week summer study abroad course - can be taken whether or not you take the study abroad trip.
56116	Lecture-Discussion Lecture-Discussion Lecture-Discussion	UN UN UN	9:00AM -4:50PM 9:00AM -2:50PM 3:00PM -4:50PM	S U F	Location Pending 407 Levis Faculty Center Location Pending	McCoy, E Visson, L McCoy, E Visson, L McCoy, E Visson, L	Part of Term: A Date Range: 03/02/12-03/04/12 Credit: 1 hours Section Title: UN Terminology and Procedures Section Info: Seminar: UN Terminology and Procedures (1 credit) Location: Levis Faculty Center room 407 Instructor: Lynn Visson, Retired UN Interpreter and UN Interpreter Trainer This seminar is intended for students in translation studies, international and global studies, languages, and linguistics to learn the rules of procedure, basic negotiating procedures and terminology for the United Nations. The course is of particular interest to students interested in careers in international organizations. The course is given in English for students from all languages. Students in the translation studies program will do special exercises translating UN documents into English. The seminar will consist of lectures and a simulation exercise that models a UN resolution session. A certificate of participation will be issued to all participants who enroll in the workshop. Students in the translation studies program will be able to apply the credit toward the certificate. Class will meet Friday March 2 - 3:00-5:00 pm, Saturday March 3 - 9:00 am- 5:00 pm, and Sunday March 4 - 9:00 am-3:00 pm.