COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies (English)

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GÜLFER TUNALI

Offered to

Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies (English)
English Translation and Interpreting

Course Objective

The course aims for students to gain required linguistic, cultural and social skills to translate in the context of migration and asylum.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

ÇIÇEKLI, Bülent: Uluslararası Hukukta Mülteciler ve Sığınmacılar, Ankara 2009.
ÖZKAN, Işıl: Göç, Iltica ve Sığınma Hukuku, Ankara 2013.
INGHILLERI, M. (2005): Mediating Zones of Uncertainty. Interpreter Agency, the Interpreting Habitus and Political Asylum Adjudication, in: The Translator 11:1, 69-85.
KO, L. (2006): Fine-Tuning the Code of Ethics for Interpreters and Translators, in: Translation Watch Quarterly 2:3, 45-57.
WADENSJO, C. (2001): Interpreting in Crisis: The Interpreter's Position in Therapeutic Encounters, in: Mason, I. (Hrsg.)Triadic Exchanges: Studies in Dialogue Interpreting. Manchester/Northampton, MA: St Jerome, 71-85.
KOLB, W. und POCHHACKER, F. (2008): Interpreting in Asylum Appeal Hearings: Roles and Norms Revisited, in: Russel, D. und Hale, S. (Hrsg.) Interpreting in Legal Settings. Washington DC: Gallaudet University Press, 26 50.
POLLABAUER, Sonja. 2004. Interpreting in Asylum Hearings: Issues of Role, Responsibility and Power. Interpreting 6 (2): 143-180
Chesterman, Andrew. 1997. Ethics of Translation. In Translation as Intercultural Communication: Selected Papers
from the EST Congress, Prague 1995, edited by Mary Snell-Hornby, Zuzuana Jettmarová, and Klaus Kaindl,
147-160. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: Benjamins.
Rudvin, Mette. 2007. Professionalism and Ethics in Community Interpreting: The Impact of Individualist
versus Collective Group Identity. Interpreting 9 (1): 47-69.
Skaaden, Hanne, Mary Phelan, and Mette Rudvin. 2017. Ethics in Public Service Interpreting. London: Routledge.
UNHCR Austria & Sonja Pöllabauer, ed. 2022, 2nd and revised edition Handbook for Interpreters in Asylum Procedures. Vienna: UNHCR Austria
Chen, H./Chen E.C. (2020) Working with Interpreters in Therapy Groups for Forced Migrants: Challenges and
Opportunities, in: International Journal of Group Therapy 70:2, 244_269
Muller, Robert T. 2013. Vicarious Trauma and the Professional Interpreter: An interpreter shares her experiences.
Psychology Today

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, interactive discussion of weekly articles and chapters, exercises, role-play

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Midterm, participation, final exam

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

1. Attendance is compulsory.
2. Students are required to come to the class prepared.
3. All kinds of attempts at plagiarism will result in disciplinary action.
4. Assignments should be submitted on time. Non-attendance will not be considered as an excuse for late submission of homework.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Gülfer Tunalı

Office Hours

will be announced

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes