COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MEHMET BÜYÜKTUNCAY

Offered to

ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING

Course Objective

This course aims to offer students the theoretical tools which enable them to read culture critically. It requires them to analyze a range of cultural texts with regard to contemporary cultural and critical theories. The course focuses on how meaning, message and code are produced and disseminated. This course is designed as a survey of cultural studies, from the British New Left in the mid 20th century to the study of cultural practices in a tech-driven and globalised present. It includes readings in cultural and critical theory, which is followed by class discussions about ideology, social class, ethnicity and gender. Students are asked to examine how these topics relate to power relations, identity formation, representation systems and hierarchies of cultural value. Students are also expected to discern the culture turn in translation studies and extend their research into popular culture, migration, diasporic identities, and cultural production in cross-cultural contexts.

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

Barker, Chris. (2000). Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice. Sage.

Barker, Chris. (2001). Cultural Studies and Discourse Analysis: A Dialogue on Language and Identity. Sage.

Barry, Peter. (2009). Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. Manchester University Press.

Bassnett, Susan. (1998). Translation Turn in Cultural Studies In Constructing Cultures: Essays on Literary Translation. Susan Bassnnett and André Lefevere (Eds.). Multilingual Matters. (pp. 123-140).

Berman, Art. (1988). From the New Criticism to Deconstruction. University of Illinois Press.

Cahoone, Lawrence E. (1996). From Modernism to Postmodernism. Blackwell.


Campion, Rose and Samantha Sebastian Dieckmann. (2024). Building Bridges:Translating Refugee Narratives for Public Audiences with Arts-based Media, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 45:2, (pp. 208-227).

Fiske, John. (2010). Understanding Popular Culture. 2nd Edition. Routledge.

Hall, Stuart. (2003). Cultural Studies and the Centre: Some Problems and Problematics. In Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-79. Eds. Stuart Hall and Dorothy Hobon et al. Routledge.

Hall, Stuart. (1999). Cultural Studies and its Theoretical Legacies, In The Cultural Studies Reader. Second Edition. Ed. Simon Durig. Routledge. (pp. 97-109).

Inglis, Fred (1993). Cultural Studies. Blackwell.

Macherey, Pierre. (2019). Edebi Üretim Teorisi. Iletişim.

McRobbie, Angela. (2005). The Uses of Cultural Studies. Sage.

Storey, John. (2009). Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction. Fifth Edition. Pearson Longman.

Yan, Chen and Jingjing Huang. (2014). The Culture Turn in Translation Studies. Open Journal of Modern Linguistics, 4, 487-494. doi: 10.4236/ojml.2014.44041.

Williams, Raymond. (2006). Culture and Materialism. Verso.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Face to face lectures, class discussions, student presentations.

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Students' projects, mid-term and final exams. Participation in class discussions will be taken into consideration.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance is mandatory.
Late submissions of assignments will result in grade deductions.
Plagiarism will not be tolerated.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

mehmet.buyuktuncay@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes