Table of contents

The course is connected to the following study programs

Teaching language

Norwegian

Prerequisites

At least 45 ECTS credits from the year abroad

Recommended previous knowledge

OF-307, OF-308

Learning outcomes

After completion of the course, students should be able to
  • produce adequate and correct translations of LSP texts from English into Norwegian
  • identify and deal with specific challenges in translation of LSP texts from English into Norwegian
  • consider, choose and justify appropriate translation strategies, using adequate terminology
  • post-edit machine-translated texts
  • use CAT tools
  • extract terms and set up term lists

Contents

Focus will be on
  • developing translation competence through work with LSP texts
  • linguistic and cultural analysis of various text types and genres
  • identification and discussion of specific translation challenges
  • translation of various LSP genres and text types with correct terminology, phraseology, etc.
  • training in information retrieval in connection with translation
  • use of CAT tools
  • work with machine-translated texts
  • terminology work

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching will be in the form of lectures and student work, group work, use of CAT tools. Workload: 270 hours.

Examination requirements

Five individual assignments and 3 prepared in groups, must be submitted and approved. At least two assignments must be in the student’s secondary language form, nynorsk or bokmål.

Examinations

Portfolio with 2 of the 7 individual assignments. Further information will be provided by the professor. Graded assessment.

Student evaluation

The person responsible for the course, in consultation with the student representative, decides the method of evaluation and whether the courses will have a midterm- or end of term evaluation, see also the Quality System, section 4.1.

Admission for external candidates

No

Reduction of Credits

This course’s contents overlap with the following courses. A reduction of credits will occur if one of these courses is taken in addition:

Course Reduction of Credits
OF-310 – Special-Language Translation English-Norwegian. 5
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