COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TRANSLATION STUDIES AND HERMENEUTICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CEV 6064 TRANSLATION STUDIES AND HERMENEUTICS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 9

Offered By

Translation Studies

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MEHMET BÜYÜKTUNCAY

Offered to

Translation Studies

Course Objective

This course explores the relationship between hermeneutics and translation, focusing on critical, legal, theological and historical hermeneutics. Students will analyze how hermeneutical perspectives influence translation practices and how hermeneutics contributes to social sciences discourse, textual analysis and translation criticism.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Learn to differentiate the methodologies of understanding and interpreting in social sciences and making explanations in natural sciences.
2   Relate translational hermeneutics with critical and philosophical hermeneutics.
3   Relate the act of translation with hermeneutics of action.
4   Evaluate the translation of literary texts and texts on social sciences from the viewpoint of hermeneutical approach.
5   Inquire the value of the act of translation as a model of ethical action.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Hermeneutics
2 Translation Studies and Hermeneutics: Basic Concepts
3 Theological and Legal Hermeneutics
4 Historical Hermeneutics
5 Literary Criticism and Critical Hermeneutics
6 Literary Criticism and Critical Hermeneutics
7 Reception Theory
8 Mid-term Exam
9 Translational Hermeneutics
10 Translational Hermeneutics
11 Models of Hermeneutic Motion in Translation
12 Translational Hermeneutics and Ethics
13 Translational Hermeneutics and Ethics
14 Student-Led Seminars on Selected Topics
15 Students presentations for the final project
16 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Bauman, Zygmunt. (2020). Hermenötik ve Sosyal Bilimler. Ayrıntı.
Bilen, Osman. (2002). Çağdaş Yorumbilim Kuramları. Kitabiyat.
Gadamer. Hans-Georg. (2009). Hakikat ve Yöntem Ikinci Cilt. Paradigma Yayıncılık.
Kharmandar, Mohammad Ali. (2018). A Hermeneutic Critique on George Steiner s Hermeneutic Motion in Translation . CROSSROADS. A Journal of English Studies, (1), 83 99.
Kharmandar, Mohammad Ali. (2018). The Intersections of Translational Hermeneutics and Narrative Hermeneutics . CROSSROADS. A Journal of English Studies, (1), 53 71.
Özlem, Doğan. (2008). Kültür Bilimleri ve Kültür Felsefesi. Doğu Batı.
Özlem, Doğan. (2010). Metinlerle Hermenötik Dersleri I. Notos Kitap.
Palmer, Richard E. (2008). Hermenötik. Ağaç Kitabevi.
Ricoeur, Paul. (2006). On Translation. Routledge.
Steiner, George. (1998). After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translations. Oxford UP.
Toprak, Zafer. (2016). Hermeneutik ve Edebiyat. Dergah.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Face to face lectures, classroom discussions, student presentations.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


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

Turkish

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

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 9 126
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 40 40
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 234

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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