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CCTR 557. Legal Translation: Statutes&Regulations (English to French).

Credits: 2
Offered by: Global & Strategic Comm. (School of Continuing Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Translation of legislation from English to French. Review of legislative systems in Canada. Analysis of methods of legislative translation in Canada. Legal translation principles and techniques applied to the translation of legislation. Study of macro-level translation strategies specific to statutes and regulations, including jurisdiction, sources of law, law structure, genre, function (of statutes and regulations and their translation) and context, and micro-level textual specificities of statutes and regulations and their translation. Strategies used to solve specific terminological and phraseological translation problems. Research techniques and use of appropriate references and tools when translating legislation.
  • Prerequisites: CCTR 541
  • Restriction: Open only to students enrolled in the Graduate Diploma in Legal Translation.
  • Course includes synchronous and asynchronous activities.
  • A minimum grade of B- must have been obtained in the prerequisite course, CCTR 541.
  • A minimum grade of B- is required to pass this course.

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