CCTR 554. Legal Translation: Judgments (French to English).
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CCTR 554
Legal Translation: Judgments (French to English).
Credits: 2
Offered by: Global & Strategic Comm. (School of Continuing Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Translation of judgments from French to English. 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.
- Early opening registration date for CS courses only.
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