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General introduction to European Studies for translators.
The course broadly outlines the history of European integration.
It describes the European institutions and their general functioning.
It gives an overview of the sources of European law and of its principal and representative branches (internal market, free movement, competition, etc.).
It describes the principal economic achievements of the EU (market, currency, budget, etc.).
Particular attention is paid to the terminology of the three disciplines involved
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| Aims |
Contribution of teaching unit to learning outcomes assigned to programme
This unit contributes to the acquisition and development of the following learning outcomes, as assigned to the Master's degree in translation :
3.1
4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4., 4.5
7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
AA-FS-AIE. Develop expertise and a high level of competence in specialized translation in the field of international relations under different headings (diplomacy, geopolitics, geostrategy, etc.) incorporating elements specific to this sphere: adapt to text-type (treaties and agreements, speeches, reports, monographs, etc.) and to the particular requirements of the client (national and international organisations and institutions, NGO's, diplomatic services, research institutes, etc.).
Specific learning outcomes on completion of teaching unit
On completing this unit the student is able to:
· Contextualise a document to be translated and/or all or part of its content on the basis of a general knowledge of the history, law and economics of European integration;
· Identify the terminology relevant to European integration (words, expressions, concepts) in a document to be translated;
· Maintain critical distance from the discourse emanating from European institutions, which is sometimes vague or even propagandistic;
· Synthesise elements from a variety of sources.
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and
command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be
accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled
“Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
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