Linguistics, Option in Translation Studies, B.A.

Core Courses

Translation option-specific requirements (12 units)

• TRST 201 - Meaning in Transit: An Introduction to Translation Studies (3 units)
• TRST 301 - Translation: Ethics, Theory, and Practice (3 units)
• TRST 401 - Translation Workshop (3 units)

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  Take one of the following:

   

• TRST 410 - Literary Translation in Transit (3 units)
• TRST 435 - Cognitive Translatology and Bilingualism (3 Units)
• TRST 451 - Audiovisual Translation (3 units)

Electives

Take three additional courses (9 units) in Linguistics or translation at the 300 or 400 level. Courses that may be used towards this requirement include all upper-division LING courses except LING 339, or any of the following:

Courses fulfilling this requirement include the following: Other upper-division language courses may be substituted with advisor permission. The C/LA 492 internship course may also be substituted for an elective with advisor permission.

• ASLD 306 - American Sign Language Linguistics (3 units)
• FREN 460 - The Art of Translation (3 units)
• GERM 306 - Translating German to English (3 units)
• ITAL 460 - Exploring Italian Translation (3 units)
• LING 301 - Introduction to Research Methods (3 units)
• LING 310 - Academic and Technical English Vocabulary Acquisition: A Linguistic Approach (3 units)
• LING 360 - The Languages of Africa (3 units)
• LING 363 - Implications of Human Language (3 units)
• LING 401 - Corpus Linguistics (3 units)
• LING 413 - Language and Culture (3 units)
• LING 422 - Discourse Analysis (3 units)
• LING 423 - Semantics (3 units)
• LING 424 - Laboratory Phonetics (3 units)
• LING 425 - Education Across Cultures (3 units) or ANTH 421  
• LING 426 - History of the English Language (3 units)

• or ENGL 426  

• LING 438 - Psycholinguistics (3 units)
• LING 450 - Teaching Second Language Listening and Speaking (3 units)
• LING 460 - Teaching Second Language Composition (3 units)
• LING 470 - Language and Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective (3 units)
• LING 472 - Language and Social Justice (3 units)
• LING 477 - Language Socialization (3 units)
• LING 486 - Second Language Teaching Methods (3 units)
• LING 490 - Selected Topics in Linguistics (1‑3 units)
• SPAN 461 - Introduction to Translation and Interpretation (3 units)
• SPAN 462 - Written and Sight Translation I: English/Spanish (3 units)
• SPAN 463 - Written and Sight Translation II: Spanish/English (3 units)
• SPAN 464 - Consecutive Interpretation I (3 units)
• SPAN 465 - Consecutive Interpretation II (3 units)
• SPAN 466 - Simultaneous Interpretation English/Spanish (3 units)
• SPAN 467 - Simultaneous Interpretation Spanish/English (3 units)
• TRST 410 - Literary Translation in Transit (3 units)
• TRST 435 - Cognitive Translatology and Bilingualism (3 Units)
• TRST 451 - Audiovisual Translation (3 units)

Language Requirement

 (This is part of the core requirements, applicable across the degree and both options (0-16 units))

Students must complete a fourth semester-level course, or demonstrate equivalent proficiency, in a language other than English. A list of applicable courses may be obtained from the undergraduate advisor. This may require 0-16 units of coursework, depending on the language studied and the student’s initial placement level. Students with prior language experience can pass all or part of the language requirement by examination or other evidence.