-All essays, activities and exercises must be handed in in due time and proper form.

-Students who violate University rules on academic dishonesty (plagiarism, cheating, etc) will be subject to disciplinary penalties, including failure of that exam or activity.

-Regular attendance and active participation is very important for the study of this subject.

-Students will be able to use the June opportunity to retake failed translations and exercises from the Spanish section. The Spanish section professor will publish equivalent translations and exercises in the Moodle platform,

-Students who do not attend the June or July tests will obtain a "Non Presentado" (absent from assessment) mark if they did not hand in at least 50% of the class assignments.

-In the July opportunity students will have to take a Mixed Test (50% of the final grade). They will also have to hand in all the corresponding activities (50% of the final grade).

- July opportunity: In order to receive a grade for the individual and group activities done during the semester in the English part, students are required to do equivalent translation activities that must be handed in prior to the official exam date.

- July opportunity: In order to receive a grade for the translations and exercises done during the semester in the Spanish part, students are required to do equivalent exercises. The professors will offer these exercises via the Moodle platform.

-Those who are officially registered as part-time students, and have been granted permission not to attend classes, as stipulated in the regulations of this University, will be assessed in either of the opportunities according to the same criteria specified for the second opportunity.

-ADI is a university office specialised in attending to members of the university with special needs due to discapacity or other differentiating situations with regard to the rest of the community. Students can talk to the coordinator for more information, or contact ADI directly at http://www.udc.es/cufie/uadi/, or by phone ext. 5622, or via email: adi@udc.es.

Learning outcomes	Study programme competences
Students will recognize the particular characteristics of different and will be able to face their translation difficulties.	A4 A5 A6 A12
Students will be able to contextualize translations (theory and practice) within particular cultural environments.	A12	B1 B6	C3
Students will be able to translate texts in English, Spanish and Galician.	A4 A5 A6 A12	B2 B6
Students will know the translation particularities of English, Spanish and Galician.	A4 A5 A6	B5	C1
Students will learn to perform their tasks efficiently.	A1	B3	C1
They will learn to have an active participation in class.	A4 A5 A6	B4	C1 C2
Students will be able to respect and value the linguistic and cultural diversity in our college.		B10

Topic	Sub-topic
I. Translation in the Field of English Studies	I.1. Introduction: What is language? What is culture? What is translation? I.2. Translation as process, as product, and as function I.3. Translation methods: I.3.1. Basic norms for a “good” translator and a “good” translation I.3.2. Brief history of translation methods in the field of English I.4. The controversial concept of equivalence I.5. Types of texts, types of translations: literature, songs, mass-media texts, audiovisual publicity, etc I.6. Translation and culture: the functional perspective I.7. Translation and audiovisual texts: dubbing and subtitling I.8. Translation and interpretation I.9. Evaluation and critique of translated texts
II. Translation in the Field of Galician Studies	II.1. Literary translation II.1.1 Preliminary issues and basic concepts II.1.2. Features of literary translation II.1.3. Literary self-translation II.1.4. Translation, version and creative appropriation II.2. Translation of poetic texts II.2.1. Methodologies and general remarks II.2.2. Formal aspects: rithm and rhime, phonic symbolism, etc. II.3. Translation into Galician II.4. Evaluation and critique of literary translation
III. Translation in the field of Spanish Studies	III.1. Specialized translation III.1.1. Introduction. Specialized languages. Terminology III.1.2. Dictionaries and catalogs. Terminological databases III.2. Computer-assisted translation III.2.1. Machine-assisted translation and computer-assisted translation III.2.2. Computer tools. Translation memories. Parallel corpus III.3. Translation into Spanish III.3.1. Documentation for translation into Spanish III.3.2. Translation methods (English into Spanish)

Methodologies / tests	Competencies	Ordinary class hours	Student’s personal work hours	Total hours
Introductory activities	B4 C1	0.5	0	0.5
Guest lecture / keynote speech	A12 B5	20.5	30	50.5
Workshop	B2 B6 C3	19.5	30	49.5
Supervised projects	B1 B2 B3	1	8	9
Oral presentation	A12 B2 B4 B10 C2	0.5	2	2.5
Workbook	B6 C1 C2	0	15	15
Mixed objective/subjective test	A1 A4 A5 A6 A12	3	15	18

Personalized attention		5	0	5

(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies	Description
Introductory activities	During the first class of the semester, students will complete several activities related to language and translation. These quizzes will help professors to determine each student's linguistic competence and personal interests within translation.
Guest lecture / keynote speech	The professors will introduce each topic with an oral exposition to discuss the most relevant theoretical concepts and their potential and factual application in practice.
Workshop	Students in small and medium-sized groups will be responsible to complete several supervised tasks (individual and group translation practices, presentations, debates, problem solving, etc).
Supervised projects	Students are required to complete several supervised activities related to translation. These activities include group and individual work, as well as classroom and homework exercises.
Oral presentation	Students are required to prove their oral skills with an oral presentation that will be delivered over the semester.
Workbook	Specific readings on translation.
Mixed objective/subjective test	Students will have to complete a final exam in June in order to test each student's translation competence.

Methodologies	Competencies	Description	Qualification
Workshop	B2 B6 C3	English part (25%): 1. Individual translation (English-Spanish): 10% 2. Group translation (4 to 6 students) (Spanish-English): 10% 3. Oral presentation based on group translation (in class): 5% ________________________________ Spanish part (12.5%): Supervised English-Spanish translation activities and exercises (in class), both individual and in groups. Professors will inform about the grade value of each exercise or activity. ________________________________ Galician part (12.5%): An individual translation activity. Professors will inform about and supervise this activity.	50
Mixed objective/subjective test	A1 A4 A5 A6 A12	The final exam will have three different parts: a translation into English (25%); a translation into Galician (12.5%); and a translation into Spanish (12.5%). Students will be required to get at least a 4 score (out of 10) in each of these parts in order to pass the exam.	50

Assessment comments
-All essays, activities and exercises must be handed in in due time and proper form. -Students who violate University rules on academic dishonesty (plagiarism, cheating, etc) will be subject to disciplinary penalties, including failure of that exam or activity. -Regular attendance and active participation is very important for the study of this subject. -Students will be able to use the June opportunity to retake failed translations and exercises from the Spanish section. The Spanish section professor will publish equivalent translations and exercises in the Moodle platform, -Students who do not attend the June or July tests will obtain a "Non Presentado" (absent from assessment) mark if they did not hand in at least 50% of the class assignments. -In the July opportunity students will have to take a Mixed Test (50% of the final grade). They will also have to hand in all the corresponding activities (50% of the final grade). - July opportunity: In order to receive a grade for the individual and group activities done during the semester in the English part, students are required to do equivalent translation activities that must be handed in prior to the official exam date. - July opportunity: In order to receive a grade for the translations and exercises done during the semester in the Spanish part, students are required to do equivalent exercises. The professors will offer these exercises via the Moodle platform. -Those who are officially registered as part-time students, and have been granted permission not to attend classes, as stipulated in the regulations of this University, will be assessed in either of the opportunities according to the same criteria specified for the second opportunity. -ADI is a university office specialised in attending to members of the university with special needs due to discapacity or other differentiating situations with regard to the rest of the community. Students can talk to the coordinator for more information, or contact ADI directly at http://www.udc.es/cufie/uadi/, or by phone ext. 5622, or via email: adi@udc.es.

Basic	Xosé Manuel fernández Castro e Luciano Rodríguez (Eds.) (2008). Cadernos de Mariñán 3. V Encontro de Escritores Galegos. Ámbitos da Tradución. A Coruña. Deputación Provincial Brian Mott y Marta Mateo (2009). Diccionario-guía de traducción español-inglés, inglés-español. Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona Antoine Berman (2003). La prueba de lo ajeno. Cultura y traducción en la Alemania romántica. Las Palmas. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Servicio de Publicaciones Yves Boonefoy (2002). La traducción de Poesía. Valencia. Pre-Textos Paolo Valesio e Rafael-Jose Díaz (Eds.) (1996). Literatura y traducción. Santa Cruz de Tenerife. U.I.M.P. Consuelo Gonzalo García y Valentín García Yebra (eds.) (2004). Manual de documentación y terminología para la traducción especializada. Madrid: Arco Libros Javier Gómez-Montero (Ed.) (2008). Nuevas pautas de traducción literaria. Madrid. Visor Libros Jordi Doce (ed.) (2007). Poesía en Traducción. Madrid. Círculo de Bellas Artes Paul Ricoeur (2005). Sobre la traducción. Barcelona. Paidós Joaquín García Palacios y M.ª Teresa Fuentes Morán (eds.) (2002). Texto, terminología y traducción. Salamanca: Almar María del Carmen África Vidal Claramonte (1995). Traducción, manipulación, descontrucción. Salamanca. Colegio de España Susan Bassnet & André Lefevere (Eds.) (1995). Translation, History and Culture. London. Cassell
	Other sources: Ávila, Alejandro. La censura del doblaje cinematográfico en España. Barcelona: CIMS, 1998. Bernal Merino, Miguel Ángel. La traducción audiovisual: análisis práctico de la traducción para los medios audiovisuales e introducción a la teoría de la traducción filológica. Alicante: Universidad de Alicante, 2002. Marset Mabel, Richard. La alegría de transformar: teorías de la traducción y teoría del doblaje audiovisual. Valencia: Tirant Lo Blanch, 2009. Martí Ferriol, José Luis y Ana Muñoz Miguel. Estudios de traducción e interpretación. Entornos de especialidad. Vol II. Valencia: universidad Jaume I, 2012. Merino, Raquel et al, eds. Trasvases culturales: literatura, cine, traducción. Pajares: Universidad del País Vasco, 2005. VV.AA. Traducción para el doblaje y la subtitulación. Madrid: Cátedra, 2001.
Complementary
	An extended bibliography will be published in the Moodle Platform.