I.Course Introduction (including teaching goals and requirements)

This course aims to teach candidates for Master of Interpreting and Translation the fundamentals of sight translation. Using texts on different topics, the course will assist students in developing related skills, such as fast reading, scanning for main ideas, linguistic analysis, and cross-cultural communication. Texts selected for exercises vary in terms of length and degree of technicality: from short, easy-to-understand texts at the beginning of the course, to lengthier and slightly specialized ones towards the end. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to quickly read and understand a written source text, so as to spontaneously translate it into a spoken target one.

II.Teaching Syllabus 

1. Introduction ( 3 credit hours)

2. Skill-Building Exercises (18 credit hours)

Exercises 1-6

3. Sophisticated Tasks (27 credit hours)

Tasks 1-9

4. Summary (6 credit hours)

III.Teaching Schedule

Note:

 1.Above one, two, and three items are used as teaching Syllabus in Chinese and announced on the Chinese website of Graduate School. The four and five items are preserved in GraduateSchool.

2. Course terms: Spring, Autumn , and Spring-Autumn term. 

3. The teaching languages for courses: Chinese, English or Chinese-English.

4.Applicable range of discipline: public, first-class discipline, second-class discipline, and third-class discipline.

5. Practice includes: experiment, investigation, research report, etc.

6. Teaching methods: lecture, seminar, practice, etc.

7. Examination for degree courses must be in paper.

8. Teaching material websites are those which have already been announced.