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BSP200BD（初年次教育、学部導入教育及びリテラシー教育 / Basic study practice 200）
English (2) A(Class)

Kazuhiro ANDO

Class code etc
Faculty/Graduate school Faculty of Letters
Attached documents
Year 2022
Class code A2866
Previous Class code
Previous Class title
Term 春学期授業/Spring
Day/Period 金2/Fri.2
Class Type
Campus 市ヶ谷
Classroom name 各学部・研究科等の時間割等で確認
Grade 2～4
Credit(s) 2
Notes
Open Program
Open Program (Notes)
Global Open Program
Interdepartmental class taking system for Academic Achievers
Interdepartmental class taking system for Academic Achievers (Notes)
Class taught by instructors with practical experience
SDGs CP
Urban Design CP
Diversity CP
Learning for the Future CP
Carbon Neutral CP
Chiyoda Campus Consortium
Category 英文学科
他学科公開科目
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Day or Night

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Outline (in English)

[Outline]
On this course students practise in literary translation (from English to Japanese), with a view to improving their reading skills in English. Developing the ability to be sensitive to voices, nuances, and psychologies 'archived' in the written, literary text is the key to this particular approach to improving reading skills. The steps taken involve translating English texts into Japanese in ways that make the translated Japanese texts sound authentic and natural as Japanese texts, and reading the feel of that authenticity and naturalness back into the original English texts. This is a seminar and students are encouraged to actively engage themselves in these tasks so that they discover the significance and utility of this approach, as well as actual techniques that help facilitate the learning process based on it. Equally important, students are encouraged to first learn from their peers' work, not from the teacher. The teacher comments on students' works at the end of the class to sum up what they have learned in that class. The novel we are going to read is The Dwarves of Death (1990) by Jonathan Coe, a contemporary English novelist.
[Goal]
The objectives of this course are for students to acquire proficiency in reading literature in English, and then on that basis to learn skills for translating English texts into natural and persuasive Japanese that vibrates with voices and nuances of the original English texts integrated into it. Through the acquisition of translation techniques and with a new awareness of the two languages that it brings about in them, students go back to the original English texts and aim at achieving higher levels of reading comprehension.
[Work to be done outside of class (preparation, etc.)]
Every week students first read designated parts of the novel and then translate into Japanese passages that the teacher designates. Students make weekly progress as they put into practice what they have previously learned when they work on new assignments. For reading the novel and translating, students allow for 2 hours per week; for revision after each session, e.g., organising notes, students allow for another 2 hours.
[Grading criteria]
Written assignments (translation) 80 %, observations made in class on peers' work 20%.

Default language used in class

日本語 / Japanese