LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course provides students with the tools for metalinguistic analysis, with a special focus on specialized texts, in order to enhance students' translation and interpreting skills between Italian and Spanish. 

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims at providing students with sound knowledge and skills in order to understand the theoretical and practical basis of translation and interpreting. The following will be dealt with: technical-scientific translation and simultaneous interpreting.

Specific aims:

Develop knowledge and train skills in professional translation and interpreting from both a theoretical and a practical point of view, combining research perspectives and professional standards.

Develop self-assessment skills.

At the end of the course students will be able to:

• identify and solve translation problems in a strategic and effective manner, also taking into account as many contextual and situational variables as possible for each assignment;
• apply knowledge, techniques and tools learnt in a functional and useful way according to the communicative situation and context;
• autonomously organise and network with other colleagues in order to apply their competences in a cooperative way.

PREREQUISITES

Lingua e Traduzione Spagnola 1 LM

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures and interpreting/translation practice, including team work.

Attendance is not obligatory but strongly recommended. 

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The syllabus for attenders and non-attenders is the same

Linguistics module: audiovisual translation: linguistic aspects

Practical modules:

Audiovisual Translation module (I semester) Alice Pagano

Economic and Financial translation (I semester) Cristina Balletto

Interpreting: simultaneous interpreting practice from and into Spanish  combined with training in interpreting-related soft skills. (I and II semester) Matteo Anfuso

Legal translation module (semester II) Cristina Balletto

Technical-scientific translation: translation practice  (also using CAT tools) combined with training in translation-related soft skills. (II semester) Silvina Dell'Isola

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Frederic, Chaume Valera, Cine y Traducción, Madrid, Cátedra: 2004.

Beatrice Garzelli, La traducción audiovisual español-Italiano. Películas y cortos entre humor y habla soez, Peter Lang, Bern: 2020

Roales Ruiz, Antonio, Técnicas para la Traducción Audiovisual: subtitulación, Salamanca, Escolar y Mayo Editores: 2017.