Arabic-English Translations

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This course explores translation as it applies to news and entertainment media. Translation is not an objective, mechanical one-for-one substitution of words and phrases but is instead a subjective, interpretive process that requires linguistic and cultural understanding of both the source and the target languages. This course provides students with the understanding they need to tackle the problems inherent in Arabic to English translation-interpretation and vice versa. Basic translation strategies and media content skills are also discussed. Course content includes exploration of the processes and techniques of translation, interpretation, examination of the nature and features of various texts, and intensive practical media translation followed by in class discussion and criticism.