Course

Media Translation - MODL5103

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

School: School of Humanities and Languages

Course Outline: School of Humanities & Languages

Campus: Sydney

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

This course provides students with practical experience in bi-directional multimedia translation at a professional level, which includes: online texts (business, politics, culture, and social affairs), audio-visual translation (captioning, subtitling, and audio description), and multimedia materials (video game localization and software localization). The course frames media translation within an international perspective with emphasis on the cutting-edge technologies embedded in the media industry of today. This course consists of a 1-hour lecture and 2-hour language-specific tutorial each week. Tutorials are taught by accredited professional translators in small language-specific groups.
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