This workshop-style course will provide students with an opportunity to translate Finnish literature into English. Students will complete short, weekly translations of major Finnish literary works, which will provide the basis for our weekly writing workshops. Short weekly readings, short translation assignments, final extended translation of the student's choosing, accompanied by a scholarly introduction or afterword.

N.B. Co-enrollment in MVKS36 is strongly encouraged.

Readings (tentative)

Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
Bellos, Is that a Fish in your Ear? (excerpts)
Heim, "Mid-Atlantic"
Coetzee, "Speaking in Tongues"

Translations (excerpts)

Agricola, Se Wsi Testamenti
Lönnrot, Kalevala
Kivi, Seitsemän veljestä
Runeberg, Vänrikki Stoolin tarinat
Linna, Tuntematon sotilas
Rekola, Runot

The course will meet weekly during period I with one-on-one meetings as neccessary in period II.

This course will explore the particular aspects of language that rise to prominence in the translation of literary texts. Topics to be discussed include orality, literal translation, ideal language, translating verse, translating the sacred, and the politics of translation. Weekly readings, response posts, final paper.

Readings (tentative)

Jerome, Letter to Pammachius
Augustine, Confessions (excerpts)
Mallarmé, "Crise de vers"
Benjamin, "The Task of the Translator"
Derrida, "Tours de Babel"
Jakobson, "Linguistic Aspects of Translation"
Spivak, "The Politics of Translation"

The course will meet weekly during period I with one-on-one meetings as neccessary in period II.

This workshop-style course will provide students with an opportunity to translate Finnish literature into English. Students will complete short, weekly translations of major Finnish literary works, which will provide the basis for our weekly writing workshops. Short weekly readings, short translation assignments, final extended translation of the student's choosing, accompanied by a scholarly introduction or afterword.

N.B. Co-enrollment in MVKS36 is strongly encouraged.

Readings (tentative)

Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
Bellos, Is that a Fish in your Ear? (excerpts)
Heim, "Mid-Atlantic"
Coetzee, "Speaking in Tongues"

Translations (excerpts)

Agricola, Se Wsi Testamenti
Lönnrot, Kalevala
Kivi, Seitsemän veljestä
Runeberg, Vänrikki Stoolin tarinat
Linna, Tuntematon sotilas
Rekola, Runot

The course will meet weekly during period I with one-on-one meetings as neccessary in period II.

This course will explore the particular aspects of language that rise to prominence in the translation of literary texts. Topics to be discussed include orality, literal translation, ideal language, translating verse, translating the sacred, and the politics of translation. Weekly readings, response posts, final paper.

Readings (tentative)

Jerome, Letter to Pammachius
Augustine, Confessions (excerpts)
Mallarmé, "Crise de vers"
Benjamin, "The Task of the Translator"
Derrida, "Tours de Babel"
Jakobson, "Linguistic Aspects of Translation"
Spivak, "The Politics of Translation"

The course will meet weekly during period I with one-on-one meetings as neccessary in period II.

Käy suoritukseksi myös kohtiin

VENS19 Muu erikoistumisjakso II
VENS20 Muu erikoistumisjakso III

This course will give an introduction to three areas of multilingual communications which are not traditional translation, but are often performed by translators: Machine Translation post-editing, marketing localization and transcreation, and multilingual Search Engine Optimization (SEO). In addition to these, students will do independent research on a fourth area.

At the end of the course, students will know what kind of work these areas involve, what is being discussed about them currently, and might even have a goal of getting further training in one or more of them.

Course work includes lectures (in general every other week, one longer session possible), individual reading, writing of essays, and a final exam.

Käy suoritukseksi myös kohtiin

VENS19 Muu erikoistumisjakso II
VENS20 Muu erikoistumisjakso III

This course will give an introduction to three areas of multilingual communications which are not traditional translation, but are often performed by translators: Machine Translation post-editing, marketing localization and transcreation, and multilingual Search Engine Optimization (SEO). In addition to these, students will do independent research on a fourth area.

At the end of the course, students will know what kind of work these areas involve, what is being discussed about them currently, and might even have a goal of getting further training in one or more of them.

Course work includes lectures (in general every other week, one longer session possible), individual reading, writing of essays, and a final exam.