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College Catalog 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

RUSS 265 - Translation as Cross-Cultural Communication

Cross-Listed as INTL 265  
When communication takes place across language barriers, it raises fundamental questions about meaning, style, power relationships, and traditions. This course treats literary translation as a particularly complex form of cross-cultural interaction. Students will work on their own translations of prose or poetry while considering broader questions of translation, through critiques of existing translations, close comparisons of variant translations, and readings on cultural and theoretical aspects of literary translation. Prerequisite(s): Advanced proficiency in a second language required. Occasionally offered. (4 Credits)