In this course, students will learn to improve their reading skills to become good and efficient
readers. Even though every student has learned “how to read”, not everyone knows how to read
effectively. Using a variety of text types, we will address reading skills such as preview reading,
skimming and scanning, reading for main ideas, reading for details and reading for inference.
Strategies for dealing with unknown vocabulary will play as much a role as skills in using the
information gained from reading, e.g., summarizing, paraphrasing, or creating charts and tables.
This course focuses on the challenges involved in German-English and English-German
translation. The emphasis is on practical applications of the translation process. Key principles
of translation such as equivalence; translatability; strategies of adaptation; target readership
orientation and stylistics will be explored and used in analysing a range of text types. Students
will also deepen their knowledge of current translation tools and resources and increase their
proficiency in translating.