CCTR 553. Legal Translation: Judgments (English to French).
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CCTR 553
Legal Translation: Judgments (English to French).
Credits: 2
Offered by: Global & Strategic Comm. (School of Continuing Studies)
Terms Offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Translation of judgments from English to French. Review of judicial systems and subject-matter jurisdiction. Examination of legal translation principles and techniques applied to judgments. Study of macro-level translation strategies specific to judgments, including structure, genre, function (of the judgment and its translation) and context, and micro-level textual specificities of judgments and their translation. Strategies used to solve specific terminological and phraseological translation problems. Research techniques and use of appropriate references and tools when translating judgments.
- Prerequisite: CCTR 541
- Restriction: Open only to students enrolled in the Graduate Diploma in Legal Translation.
- **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fifth lecture day.
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