IED 337

HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF LETTERS
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Course: IED 337 (01) Translation III
Year/ Term: 2014-2015 Fall
Class Hours: Thursday 13:00-15:50 (03)
Classroom: B8/B03
Aim of the course: The main aim of this course is to enable students to gain translation skills,
regarding materials on topics such as art, literature, law, medicine, politics and economics along with
documents related to daily life such as on advertisements, recipes, manuals, rental contracts, diplomas
and texts from the written press. The course also enables students to categorise different translation
methods to identify syntactic and semantic difficulties that may be encountered during the translation
of different texts, to recognize and correct translation mistakes, hence enabling them to acquire
sophisticated translation skills.
Course Outline:
Week I: Introduction to Translation Studies and Translation of Art Texts
Reading and discussion: “This can be Understood only by Turks” Web Source.
“Öğrencilerin Yaptıkları Çevirilerden Örnekler”
Translation texts: “Sanat Evine Dönüyor” and “Turkey’s New Fair”
Week II: Literature and Literary Translation
Reading and discussion: “Murray Bail’in ‘The Silence’ Adlı Öyküsünün Biçemsel ve
Sözdizimsel İncelemesi, Türkçe’ye Çevirisi ve Bir Çeviri Eleştirisi” by Prof. Dr. A. Deniz
Bozer from Journal of Literature and Culture 11 (2004)
“Kültürden Kültüre Oyun Çevirisi: Keşanlı Ali Destanı” by Prof. Dr. Asalet Erten from
Çeviribilim ve Uygulamaları Aralık (1998)
Translation texts: “Merdiven” by Ahmet Haşim
“A Mouzzel for Melastomus” by Rachel Speght
Week III: Law and Politics
Reading and discussion: “Çeviri ve Sorunları” by Bülent Bozkurt
Translation texts: “Temel Haklar ve Ödevler,” “Judicial Function” and “Scottish
Independence: Voting under Way in Referendum”
Week IV: Health and Sports
Translation texts: “Dangers of Smoking” and “2012 Londra Olimpiyatları”
Week V: Climate and Weather
Translation texts: “Climactic Changes” and “Batı Avrupa Donacak”
Week VI: Midterm I
Week VII: Advertisements
Reading and discussion: “Çeviri Ediminde Kayıplar Sorunu” by Asalet Erten in Hacettepe
Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 10.1 (1993)
Translation texts: “Museum of Local Folklore and Customs” An advertisement
“Flat 127 21-23 Avalon Court” An advertisement
“Kağıthane Ofispark: İş Hayatının Yeni Merkezi” An advertisement
Week VIII: Food: Recipes and Cooking Terms
Translation texts: “İstanbul’da Kabuklular” and “Herb Rice”
Week IX: Job Applications and CVs
Translation texts: Türkçe Özgeçmiş: “Wendy Benson” and an English CV: “Adam Hall”
Week X: Rental Contracts and Other Formal Documents
Translation texts: Turkish and English rental contracts and Vekaletname Çeviri Örnekleri
Week XI: Diplomas and Certificates
Translation texts: “Diploma of Manchester University Department of Management” and
“Sağlık Bakanlığı Uzmanlık Belgesi”
Week XII: Texts from the Written Press
Translation texts: Notes on newspaper terminology and headlines exercises
Week XIV: Traffic, Vehicles, Transportation
Texts: “The Leading Cause of Death” “Sürücü Hataları” Web Sources
Textbook: There is no textbook for the course. The material to be translated will be provided by the
instructor to be photocopied. Any suggestions relating to the material are welcome.
Method of Instruction: The students are expected to translate the assigned materials beforehand since
the course will mainly be based on exercises, and translations done in the class along with pair and
group works. The course will be student-oriented and they will be responsible to translate the given
material. Translation will be from English into Turkish and vice versa.
Requirements: The students are required to come to class with their translations and to take active
part in class activities and discussions. Attendance is compulsory and more than 11 hours of absence
will result in F1.
Assessment: There will be two midterm examinations and a final examination. If necessary there will
be pop quizzes. Marks below 50 (out of 100) in the final exam will be regarded as failure. In the
grading of the exam papers up to 25% of the total mark will be taken off for grammatical and writing
mistakes.
Midterm I: 20 %
Midterm II: 20 %
Quizzes and class participation: 15 %
Final: 45 %