Module manager: Dr Sara Magro Ramos Pinto
Email: S.RamosPinto@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 Oct to 30 Sep (12mth) View Timetable
Year running 2024/25
| MODL5301M | Dissertation: Translation Studies |
| MODL5302M | Extended Translations |
This module is not approved as an Elective
The module will give you the opportunity to show your abilities to subtitle a video at a professional standard as the culmination of your learning in the degree. You will be trained and work under supervision to produce a medium-length subtitled clip at a professional standard and to justify your subtitling choices. You will be responsible for proposing the specific clip to be subtitled, which should follow the language combination of your Specialised Translation module.
This module is designed to provide audiovisual translation students with experience in producing medium-length audiovisual translations (subtitles) of a professional standard from one language into English; it is also intended to increase students' awareness of what the subtitling process involves, as well as introducing them to theories and methods in audiovisual translation and localisation studies that can guide them in their awareness and translation choices
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Ability to subtitle at a professional standard
2. Ability to justify translation choices to a client
3. Ability to use subtitling technologies
4. Ability to present and deliver a subtitling project
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
5. Time management
6. Application of critical thinking
7. Finding solutions to problems and choosing between different strategies on informed assessment of possible effects
8. Leading a project to completion through independent work
9. Justification of one’s own decisions through a written report
Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supervision | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Lecture | 10 | 1 | 10 |
| Seminar | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Private study hours | 432 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 18 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 450 | ||
Formative feedback will be provided during seminars and through supervision sessions with supervisors. The lectures and seminars will be aimed at supporting students in choosing viable videos, assessing challenges, applying theories to inform the choices of their translation strategy, using subtitling software, and managing a large subtitling project. Students will receive formative feedback on tasks carried out at seminars, which will be sequenced to help them prepare different aspects of their projects. Students will submit a proposal (text specifications), which they will discuss with their supervisor at the first meeting. The supervisor will read and provide formative feedback on a 10% draft during the las tsecond meeting. They will have a third and fourth meeting with their supervisor to discuss their overall progress before their last part of independent work ahead of submission.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Project | Subtitling Project | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
There is no reading list for this module
Last updated: 13/05/2024
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