Market Strategies & Critical Perspectives for Chinese-English Translators

Overview

Subject area

TRNC

Catalog Number

75100

Course Title

Market Strategies & Critical Perspectives for Chinese-English Translators

Description

This course offers a critical perspective on opportunities and challenges for the entry level Chinese-English translator/interpreter today. It addresses translation as a business and translators as individuals who engage in a wide array of “conversations” in a competitive marketplace––with different agencies, organizations, and institutions. Students will examine the evolution of what is called “professional” (as opposed to literary or community) translation, and the specificity of freelance or start-up work as opposed to landing full-time positions in corporations of different scales, from the boutique agencies to the multinational LSPs (language service providers). While learning to strategize work opportunities and to market their skills, students will contemplate larger issues of social purpose and sustainability of the translator, the role of the translators/interpreter in corporate social responsibility, soft-power economics, climate change, and other social justice and humanitarian concerns.

Typically Offered

Fall, Spring

Academic Career

Graduate

Liberal Arts

Yes

Credits

Minimum Units

3

Maximum Units

3

Academic Progress Units

3

Repeat For Credit

No

Components

Name

Lecture

Hours

3

Requisites

033652

Course Schedule