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COURSE UNIT TITLECOURSE UNIT CODESEMESTERTHEORY + PRACTICE (Hour)ECTS
TRANSLATION AMER140 Second Term (Spring) 3 + 0 5

TYPE OF COURSE UNITCompulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNITBachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY1
SEMESTERSecond Term (Spring)
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED5
NAME OF LECTURER(S)-
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT At the end of this course, the students;
1) will be able to translate sentences from English into Turkish and from Turkish into English,
2) will be able to translate longer texts from English into Turkish.
MODE OF DELIVERYE-Learning
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSENo
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTNone
COURSE DEFINITIONThis course aims at introducing the students to the idea of translation. The primary purpose of the course is to raise language awareness. A comparative study of the source and the target languages, particularly from a grammatical perspective, is the essential practice throughout the course. Complex sentence structures are analyzed and compared on a contextual basis.
COURSE CONTENTS
WEEKTOPICS
1st Week Introduction; Comparative English and Turkish Languages
2nd Week Noun Clauses
3rd Week Noun Clauses
4th Week Relative Clauses
5th Week Relative Clauses
6th Week MIDTERM EXAM
7th Week Adverb Clauses
8th Week Adverb Clauses
9th Week Adverb Clauses
10th Week Conjunctions
11th Week Conjunctions
12th Week Revision and Wrap-up
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READINGDuff Alan. Translation. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991.

Munday, Jeremy. Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications. London and New York: Routledge,
2012.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODSLecture,Discussion,Other
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 QuantityPercentage(%)
Mid-term140
Assignment110
Total(%)50
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)50
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)50
Total(%)100
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTIONEnglish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)No
  

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