Duration
International organisations : 30h Th
Lobbies and trade unions : 30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
International organisations : Valérie Maris
Lobbies and trade unions : Bénédicte Klinkenberg
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
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International organisations
Course for French-speaking students
Lobbies and trade unions
Translation from English into French of texts from lobbies, NGOs, associations and trade unions.
Brussels, the capital of the European Union and many other international institutions, is home to some 30,000 lobbyists working for more than 10,000 interest groups defending a wide range of interests, both private (finance, trade, GMOs, agriculture, energy, industry, tobacco, technology, pharmaceuticals, arms, chemicals, etc.) and public (health, environment, peace, development, refugees, human rights, education, alter-globalization, consumer rights, etc.), which are often contradictory.
Their activities generate an enormous volume of texts to be translated, as does international trade unionism in general and European trade unionism in particular.
Students will work mainly on persuasive, exhortative and propaganda texts.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
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At the end of this activity, the students will be able to translate a propaganda text, respecting not only the content in all its nuances, but also the internal rhetoric and the rhetoric specific to the lobby concerned, the colour, the mood...
They will have learnt to make the author's ideas their own so that they can communicate them with conviction, even if they do not personally share them.
They will have developed strategies for documentary research and the effective use of search engines.
They will have broadened their general knowledge of a range of political and social issues affecting Europe. They will also have increased their English and French vocabulary on these topics.
More generally, they will have improved their foreign language skills (reading comprehension, identifying textual and cognitive difficulties) and their mother tongue skills (summarising, reformulating, restructuring, adapting and condensing text). They will be able to translate technical content in the political field and produce a translation that is appropriate for its purpose. They will be better trained to check, reread and/or revise their own work and that of others in accordance with quality objectives. You will have developed your general knowledge and intellectual curiosity. They will have developed basic ethical skills: managing the various stages of a job, meeting deadlines and following instructions, working as part of a team, communicating with the client.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
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International organisations
Course for French-speaking students.
Lobbies and trade unions
Very good understanding of the source language and excellent knowledge of French
General translation and documentary research skills
Intellectual curiosity about the above topics and European politics in general
An interest in polemics
Acting skills, however modest, would be great!
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
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The student will mainly carry out translations and revisions, including neural machine translation (DeepL and others). Particular attention will be paid to the preparation of the work, documentary research on the influential group and political issue concerned, and reflection on the issues raised.
Students will be required to do some preparatory work at home, consisting of actual translations and documentary research. Their work will be corrected/validated in turn by the teacher and their peers.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
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Recommended or required readings
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Assessment methods and criteria
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam
Written work / report
Additional information:
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This teaching unit ("Unité d'enseignement," or UE) is subject to the principle of the "note absorbante," which means that the student having obtained a mark below 8/20 for one of the learning activities ("activités d'apprentissage," or AA) will receive a failing grade for the entire unit and will have to retake the failed AA in the second session regardless of the mathematical average of the two AA grades.
International organisations
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( open-ended questions )
Additional information:
Course for French-speaking students.
Lobbies and trade unions
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( open-ended questions )
Additional information:
This teaching unit ("Unité d'enseignement," or UE) is subject to the principle of the "note absorbante," which means that the student having obtained a mark below 8/20 for one of the learning activities ("activités d'apprentissage," or AA) will receive a failing grade for the entire unit and will have to retake the failed AA in the second session regardless of the mathematical average of the two AA grades.
The test will consist of the translation of a persuasive, exhortative text from a lobby, NGO, association or trade union, the topic of which will be communicated one week in advance of approximately 400 words in 2 hours:
The target texts must not contain any major misunderstandings that would indicate a serious comprehension problem. Their language level will be adapted to the target audience. They should be idiomatic and substantially free of spelling, punctuation, grammatical and syntactical errors. Particular attention will be paid to dealing with textual or reformulation difficulties identified in class.
Work placement(s)
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Organizational remarks
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Contacts
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International organisations
Valérie Maris - valerie.maris@ulg.ac.be
Lobbies and trade unions
B.Klinkenberg@uliege.be
Association of one or more MOOCs
There is no MOOC associated with this course.
Additional information:
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