General provisions

The course is given within the Master's programme in language and as an independent course.

Entry requirements

A Bachelor's degree with Persian or Iranian Languages as the main field of study and 5SV091 Translation Science 7.5 credits or 5AA012 Translation Theory with a Focus on Translation to/from Arabic, Hindi, Kurdish, Persian, Turkish 7.5 credits or the equivalent.

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course the student should be able to

• translate fictional text from or to Persian;
• apply the most important analytical methods of translation theory to describe literary translation from or to Persian
• be able to identify and handle the most important recurrent problems in fictional translation from or to Persian;
• in a basic way account for contrastive features related to culture and language structure in translations from or to Persian;
• understand translated works in its cultural and social context, such as from a gender perspective;
• master relevant translation tools (reference book, Internet-based tools etc.);
• have achieved a manuscript that is ready for publication of a text of about 25 pages in the source language.

Content

In the course, the student should carry out a literary translation project into Swedish or English from Persian, or into Persian from Swedish or English. The work should include an analysis based on translation theory.

Instruction

The teaching consists of translation seminars where the translation and analysis are discussed.

Assessment

The examination takes place through submission of a manuscript ready for publication of about 25 pages in the source language supplemented by a translation theoretical analysis.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the University's disability coordinator.