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LT5603 - Theory of Translation

Offering Academic Unit
Department of Linguistics and Translation
Credit Units
3
Course Duration
One Semester
Equivalent Course(s)
CTL5603 Theory of Translation
Course Offering Term*:
Semester A 2025/26

* The offering term is subject to change without prior notice
 
Course Aims

This course aims to give students an overview of the theory of translation and to introduce them to the fundamental aspects of translation as a profession and academic discipline, encouraging them to discover interfaces between different theories as well as creating new modes of conceptualizing translation as an academic discipline with linguistic, communicational, and above all intellectual significance.


Assessment (Indicative only, please check the detailed course information)

Continuous Assessment: 100%
 

Students can use GenAI tools to brainstorm, gather information, solve problems, format references, and edit language.


Students should give proper acknowledgment to all the content from GenAI tools that they incorporated into the assignment and keep a journal of their GenAI conversations.


Students should not present texts generated or translated by GenAI tools as their own original work.

 
Detailed Course Information

LT5603.pdf