Department of English

As a Minor

The Multilingual Translation Minor, open to all students who have successfully completed a 4000-level language course or have proficiency in a second language, offers an introduction to the discipline of translation. Students will learn how to use the fundamentals of Translation Studies to interpret the cultural, social, and political underpinnings of literary and artistic works produced in different geographical environments, with a particular attention to how questions of gender, poetics, ideology, class, and nation operate in translations. Students will also be exposed to the basics of translation praxis and will develop the interlingual translation skills needed to produce a wide variety of texts in translation.

To qualify for the minor, students must have successfully completed a 4000-level language course or have proficiency in a second language. To complete the minor, students must take (in any order):

One of the following core courses:

• CMP 4020 Translating Between Worlds: Literature and Anthropology
• ENG 3880 A History of Translation

* Students may substitute SPA 4004 Seminar in Translation: English/Spanish or CMP 4905 Language, Literature, and Culture of Japan, for the category I requirement with permission of the Program Director

The Capstone Seminar

• ENG 4800 Literary Translation Seminar

An elective course drawn from either of the two following categories:

Linguistics:

• ENG 3700 Introduction to Linguistics and Language Learning
• ENG 3750 The Structure and History of English
• ENG/COM 4015 Globalization of English
• ENG 4030 Stylistics

– OR –

Cultural Translation:

• BLS 3115 People and Culture of Haiti
• CMP 3059 Latino/a Literature in the U.S
• CMP 3905 Post-Colonial French Literature of Africa and the Caribbean
• CMP 4900 Hispanic Writers in New York City
• ENG 3036: Post-Colonial Literature
• ENG 3215 Literature and Globalization
• ENG 4120: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
• ENG 5000 Independent Study in Translation (3 credits) **
• FRE 4200 North Africa: Literature and Film (taught in French)
• FRE 4240 French Orientalism (taught in French)
• GLS 4900 Global Studies Capstone **
• LTS 3044 Migration in the Americas
• THE/JWS 3060 Immigration on Stage and Screen

** Students may use this course if the topic is relevant to the minor. Please consult the Director of the Multilingual Translation Program for permission.

Contact

Professor Adrian Izquierdo, Program Director

646 312-3932