Specialised Translation Workshop in International and European Affairs - Dutch

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

• analyse a source document, identify potential textual and cognitive difficulties and assess the strategies and resources needed to reformulate it in line with communicative needs (1 – Translation); 
• translate general and domain-specific material in one or several fields from one or several source languages into their target language(s), producing a ‘fit for purpose’ translation (6 – Translation); 
• translate different types of material on and for different kinds of media and target audiences, using appropriate tools and techniques (7 – Translation); 
• check, review, revise and evaluate their own work and that of others according to standard or work-specific quality objectives and assess the appropriateness of using tools for the work at hand (11 – Translation); 
• use the most relevant IT applications, including the full range of office software, and adapt rapidly to new tools and IT resources having critically assessed their relevance and the impact of change on their work practices (15 – Technology); 
• make effective use of search engines, corpus-based tools, text analysis tools, computer-assisted translation (CAT) and quality assurance (QA) tools where appropriate (16 – Technology). 

• translate in a professional manner (respecting specifications) a text on matter pertaining to international and European relations employing documentary research and ensuring in the translation process to French to respect the author's intentions, the appropriate terminology and phraseology, as well as the rules of Dutch; 
• carry out relevant and effective documentary and terminological research; 
• identify documentation in French and in Dutch which is relevant and useful in dealing with the source text (comprehension, translation and accurate reformulation); 
• identify and comprehend in the source text terms and concepts pertinent to the given domain of specialisation, with the aid of suitably informative texts in both French and Dutch; 
• analyse the specific discursive character of the source text so as to identify the means to employ in ensuring functional harmony between source and target text.