AP/FR 3123 3.00
Translanguaging Across Cultures: Navigating French and English Worlds
This course explores cultural and social aspects of translation in French and English through the lens of translanguaging. Students investigate how language practices move beyond rigid boundaries, analyzing texts to uncover intent, context, and cultural nuance. Emphasis is placed on developing strategies for interpreting and creating meaning across languages, addressing ethics, identity, and intercultural communication in translation.
Expanding from this foundation, the course introduces students to major theories of translation—such as dynamic equivalence, domestication and foreignization, and the cultural turn in translation studies. Core topics include analyzing the role of culture, norms, setting, and tradition in the translation process; the interplay between language and culture; and the phenomenon of non-equivalence. Students engage with both literary and non-literary texts (e.g., novels, plays, advertisements, subtitles) to identify translation strategies and cultural adaptations.
Prerequisites: AP/FR 2100 6.0 (with a minimum grade of C).
Course credit exclusions: none