Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2019-20

La teoría e historia de la traducción es una materia que pretende servir de introducción al estudio de los diferentes y variados enfoques de la traducción en la época actual y a lo largo de la historia de la disciplina.

El lugar que ocupa en el grado viene justificado por la absoluta necesidad de que la formación universitaria no se limite a la enseñanza práctica de carácter profesional, sino que dote también a los futuros graduados de una formación teórica que cumpla tres objetivos básicos: (1) trascender comportamientos mecánicos gracias a la adquisición de conciencia sistemática y científica sobre las razones que les llevarán a actuar de diversas maneras en función del tipo de traducción que realicen; (2) dotarse de un metalenguaje que les permita explicar sus decisiones traductoras de un modo objetivo, profundo y sistemático; y (3) conocer la rica y secular historia de reflexión sobre la disciplina que ha tenido lugar al menos desde tiempos de la antigua Roma y que ha desembocado en la situación actual, caracterizada por una intensa asunción de la importancia, complejidad y virtualidad de la traducción en un mundo globalizado.

 

 

Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)

General Competences (CG)

  • CG1 : Ability to communicate in the different working languages: languages A (Catalan/Spanish, Level C2 of the European framework), languages B (Level B2/C1), languages C (Level B1/B2 for languages that are taught in secondary education and Level A2/B1 for those not taught in secondary education) and languages D (Level A1/A2). Ability to communicate (oral and written) is understood to refer to understanding and expression and includes grammatical subcompetence (mastery of the linguistic code), sociolinguistic subcompetence (regulates adaptation to the context and is linked with the linguistic variation occurring according the different register elements), pragmatic subcompetence (related to functional use of the language and mastery of discourse, cohesion and coherence). Communicative competence must include at least two languages and cultures (includes passive and active communication stages, as well as the textual conventions of different working cultures and the corresponding cultural, encyclopaedic and thematic knowledge).
  • CG2 : Instrumental competence. Includes the use of documentary sources, terminology search and the management of glossaries, databases, etc., and also the use of the most useful computer applications for exercising the profession (text editors, desktop publishers, databases, Internet, e-mail, translation and editing programmes, translation memories, etc.), as well as other tools such as the fax, dictaphone and the mechanisms and apparatus needed for interpreting booths, etc.).
  • CG3 : Competence to exercise the profession on the labour and deontological market, consisting of the knowledge and skills related to acting as a professional translator and the job market. Includes basic knowledge for managing one's professional practice and factors associated with public and private law, the economy and business (contracts, tax obligations, budgets, financial aspects, invoicing, etc.) and with the deontological code and professional associations. Also such skills as memory, reflexes, creativity, capacities such as trustworthiness, attention span, organisation and planning, memory, capacity for analysis and synthesis, automation of the most common tasks, decision-making, interest in a job well done and a professional approach, the ability to adapt to new situations, initiative, etc. In addition, interpersonal skills such as the ability to relate with others and professional teamwork, not only with other translators and professionals in the field (proof-readers, documentalists, terminologists), but also with clients, initiators, authors, users and experts in the subjects being translated, etc.
  • CG4 : Competence in transference or strategy, understood as the ability to carry out the transference process from the original text and re-express it in the mother tongue according to the purpose of the translation, the characteristics of the recipient and other parameters of the translation project for all kinds of general and specialised texts. Includes subcompetences relating to the procedures applied for organising the work involved, identifying and solving problems and self-assessment, documentation strategies and the ability to use procedures to compensate for deficiencies in other subcompetences and solve problems during the translation process.

 

Specific Competences (CE):>>For CG1

  • CE1.16 : Understand general aspects of the sociocultural contexts of the languages studied.

 

Specific Competences (CE):>>For CG3

  • CE3.6 : Capacity for teamwork.

 

Specific Competences (CE):>>For CG4

  • CE4.5 : Assimilate the importance of extralinguistic knowledge and the need for documentation.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2019-20

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General

Code: 32523
Lecturer responsible:
ALBALADEJO MARTINEZ, JUAN ANTONIO
Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,80
Practical credits: 0,60
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • Dept: TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING
    Area: TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING
    Theoretical credits: 1,8
    Practical credits: 0,6
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

Study programmes where this course is taught