Course Description:
This course aims to introduce students to different types of translation and the qualities of a good translator. It provides
students with English and Arabic texts from various registers and helps them to translate different types of idioms,
sentences, and whole structures ranging from legal texts to various forms of news reporting. The emphasis is based
upon acquainting the students with the textual differences between Arabic and English so as to enable them to analyze a
variety of text types while translating. The course will also assist students to compare and contrast the English structures
with their related Arabic counterparts.
Course Objectives:
- Introduce Translation as a discipline and as a profession and as a track/major
- Differentiate between target language and language of origin in the process of translation;
- Explain selected translation theories and methods
- Translate simple sentences and short paragraphs from English into Arabic and vice versa.