Module: German Scientific / Technical Translation

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	German Scientific / Technical Translation
Module Code	GE402 (ITS) / GER1031 (Banner)
Faculty	Humanities & Social Sciences	School	SALIS
Module Co-ordinator	Dervila Cooke
Module Teachers	Annette Schiller, Dorothy Kenny, Mary Phelan
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

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Description

Develop your ability to translate texts at an advanced level Enhance your autonomy in sourcing appropriate background documentation Enable you to deal competently with issues of equivalence and difference Prepare you for submission of professional translation assignments

Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate advanced translation strategies for a variety of text types within the domain of science and technology and from German as a source language into English as a target language.
2. Create native-speaker, domain-specialist level target language texts, which are fluent and accurate translations of the source text.
3. Work under pressure of time to create advanced translations using a computer and an array of online and hard-copy resources.
4. Locate, critically evaluate and utilise relevant terminological resources.

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Lecture	24	No Description
Independent Study	101	No Description
Total Workload: 125

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Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Materials
A range of SL text types will be used for translation practice, including:

Company reports

Economic reports and forecasts

Statistical analyses

Marketing and commercial documentation

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Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	10%	Examination Weight	90%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories: Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module. Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module. Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

0: Essential: Background documentation in SL and TL, print and electronic. General and specialised monolingual, bilingual and multilingual dictionaries. Language specific reference sources to be specified by the module coordinators.,

Other Resources

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