English Studies

G R A D U A T E D E G R E E P R O G R A M M E : E N G L I S H S T U D I E S
3.2.2. Graduate double-major degree programme in English
Studies with a special emphasis on Translation
Elective courses in English studies: see 3.2.1.
Course title Translation studies with elements of contrastive analysis
Course code HZE608
Type of course Lecture + Seminar / Advisory hours
Core course (Elective course in programme 3.1.1. and 3.1.3.)
Level of course Specialised level course
Year of study First Semester One
ECTS
(Number of
credits allocated)
6 ECTS credits
Contact hours (30 lectures + 25 seminars + 5 advisory hours) = 2 credits.
Student study time (135 hours) = 4 credits.
Name of lecturer
Prof Dr Zjena Čulić
Ivana Petrović, Assistant
Learning After the completion of the course the student should be able to show
outcomes and familiarity with the development of translation studies and to show
competences understanding of the overall structure of the discipline and the connection
between its subdisciplines as well as the relationship with the related
disciplines such as text linguistics, corpus linguistics, sociolinguists, etc.
The students should also be able to implement the methods of critical
analysis. The most important competences to be developed are the capacity
for analysis and synthesis, for problem solving and the ability to apply the
theoretical knowledge to the solution of various practical problems related
to this field.
With respect to the skills and knowledge a professional translator must
have, the students’ competence is described as the union of a source
language receptive competence and target language reproductive
competence within a supercompetence reflecting the ability to transfer
messages between the two languages; this ‘supercompetence’ is intertextual
and not purely linguistic.
Prerequisites Competences and skills acquired after the completion of the third year
undergraduate study programme; the student's grade point average should
be at least 3.5.
Course contents Contrastive linguistics and translation; translation equivalence vs.
formal/contrastive correspondence; semantic shift, tertium comparationis;
text linguistics and contrastive analysis (coherence, cohesion, exophoric vs.
endophoric reference); scenes-and-frames semantics; corpus linguistics and
contrastive analysis; pedagogical implications of contrastive analysis.
Translation studies: definition and general considerations; historical review;
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