Asian Studies 316 - Intro Translation Chinese/Eng

This is an introductory course on Chinese-English translation. The course develops the student's ability to think deeply about the texts and to produce natural and accurate translation from Chinese to English and vice versa. Both oral and written translation skills are emphasized; students will conduct translations at different linguistic levels, from expressions to sentences to discourses. The class materials include news and reportage, business, governmental, and legal documents, and film subtitles. Students will be assigned a real translation project at the end of the course. Technology will be used to assist learning and publishing of translated texts.

Prereq: ASIAN-311 or equivalent.