British and Angloamerican Cultural Studies Sergio Guerra - Translating Cultures: Chinamerica
Summer School
Dipartimento di Scienze della Comunicazione, Studi Umanistici e Internazionali
| A.Y. | Venue | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020/2021 | Urbino |
Learning Objectives
Themes
The study program of this edition of the Summer Course in Cultural Studies refers to translation from American English and Chinese, with a specific focus on translation studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and film studies. The specific aim of this Summer School is to study in depth the cultures of China and the United States, including book market, tourism, and literature. Participants will acquire the following skills: building and managing the vocabulary and the registers specific to the discipline, recognizing languages and forms of alterity, analyzing texts and situations from an intercultural point of view.
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Objectives
Translation for book market, teaching, tourism, intercultural mediation, political science, literature, arts, eno-gastronomy. All fields that require the knowledge of Anglo- American and/or Chinese language and culture.
Contents and structure of the course / Syllabus
Activities of PhD Students
Lectures, laboratories, video (e-learning via Moodle platform). Some lessons are meant for all studenst, while others are specific for each group.
Information about final examination
Course structure and research training
Constant verification in itinere, with a single final written test (short text to be translated and critically analyzed).
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Professional opportunities
The course takes place online from Monday 5 July to Friday 9 July, morning and afternoon, with the exam scheduled for Monday 12 July. International lecturers and experts will participate. Participants are asked to obtain Sergio Guerra's volume "Cultura Futura" (Aras 2021), all the rest of the material will be included in the course materials. The course gives a total of 4 ECTS and a certificate of participation is required.
How to apply for British and Angloamerican Cultural Studies Sergio Guerra - Translating Cultures: Chinamerica
- Admission
- Course with free access
- Number of positions
- 25 available
- Useful information
Focus on America: English level B1 (submit documentation); Focus on China: Chinese - not absolute beginners admitted (self-certification is valid) Students who meet the requirements will be admitted in chronological order of submission of the enrollment application, complete with payment of the due fee, until the maximum number of places available is reached.
- Application procedure
- You can apply from the 01/04/2021 to the 30/06/2021 . Using the online procedure you can register to fill in the application and pay with PagoPA (Credit Card, PayPal) to complete the payment of the admission fee.
- Online registration
- Online registration Registration guidelines
Useful documents and materials
| Course sheet | download |
Information on teaching and research activities
- Organization
Alessandra Calanchi - Coordinator
Antonio Taglialatela (Un. La Tuscia ) - Co-coord.
Iuna Rossi - Secretary
- Contact
email
- Contacts
- Alessandra Calanchi
- alessandra.calanchi@uniurb.it
- Ya-Fang Chang
- ya.chang@uniurb.it
Administrative contacts
- Secretary’s Office
- Ufficio Dottorati - Post laurea - Esami di Stato
- Via Veterani, 36 - Urbino
- Office hours
- Monday - Friday from 9.30 am to 13pm
- Contacts
- Tel. +39 0722 304637 corsi.postlaurea@uniurb.it
