Duration
Economics and finance : 30h Th
Politics and militancy : 30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Economics and finance : Laurence Hamels
Politics and militancy : 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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Economics and finance
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Politics and militancy
Translation exercises from German into French of :
- texts dealing with politics from an outsider's point of view, of a journalistic nature, on current events, articles, press reviews, etc.
- politically oriented texts from political parties, pressure groups, NGOs, blogs or committed media on major controversial issues
- press cartoons
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
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Economics and finance
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Politics and militancy
By the end of this activity, students will be able to translate political content fluently, idiomatically and appropriately for the target audience.
They will have developed strategies for documentary research and the effective use of search engines.
They will have broadened their knowledge of the realia and a range of political and social issues affecting the German-speaking world. They will also have increased their German 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 textual content). 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 an assignment, meeting deadlines and following instructions, working as part of a team, communicating with the client.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
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Economics and finance
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Politics and militancy
Very good understanding of the source language and excellent knowledge of French
General translation and documentary research skills
Intellectual curiosity about the above subjects
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
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Economics and finance
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Politics and militancy
The student's main tasks will be translation and revision, particularly of neural machine translations (DeepL and others). Particular attention will be paid to preparation of work, documentary research and reflection on the topics covered. 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 by their peers.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
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Economics and finance
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Politics and militancy
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Recommended or required readings
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Economics and finance
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Assessment methods and criteria
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam
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
Economics and finance
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam
Additional information:
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam
- Remote
written exam
Written work / report
Additional information:
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Politics and militancy
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( open-ended questions )
Additional information:
The exam consists of a translation of a text similar to those seen in class, of 300 to 400 words, in 2 hours. The topic will be given a week in advance.
The target text should not contain any major misunderstandings that would indicate a serious comprehension problem. Its language level will be adapted to the target audience. It 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 encountered in class.
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.
Work placement(s)
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Economics and finance
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Organizational remarks
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Economics and finance
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Contacts
Politique et activisme :
Bénédicte KLINKENBERG
B.Klinkenberg@uliege.be
Économie et finances :
Laurence HAMELS
lhamels@uliege.be
Economics and finance
Laurence HAMELS
lhamels@uliege.be
Politics and militancy
B.Klinkenberg@ulg.ac.be