SEMINAR IN COMMERCIAL, LEGAL AND DIPLOMATIC TRANSLATION

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(Repeatable for credit) This course provides students with extensive practice translating a range of legal, commercial and diplomatic text genres from their language of specialization into English and developing methods for tackling unfamiliar specialized language. While translating, students create resources to develop knowledge of specific topics and use this knowledge to make informed translation decisions. Sharpening research skills is important because translators often encounter difficult concepts for which there are few reliable translation resources. Translators are also called upon to evaluate the output of other translators and machine translation. After translating, students reflect upon their personal translation process to better identify and allocate the resources needed to work effectively and efficiently.