The online registration for 2nd year BA students for BA seminars will commence on 10 May at 7 p.m. and will close on 12 May at 11.59 pm. Students register via usosweb.
There are limits to the number of students in each group. If the group of your choice is already full, please make an alternative choice.
Descriptions of courses:
Katarzyna Ojrzyńska
Agata Handley
dr hab. Justyna Fruzińska, America in the 19th Century
The seminar will be devoted to discussing different aspects of American culture in the 19th century: literature, painting, philosophy, and history. It will combine discussion of literary and critical sources with watching and analyzing documentary films on various issues connected to 19th-century America.
• we will read works by Romantic as well as realist writers (e.g. Emerson, Hawthorne, Brockden Brown, Beecher Stowe, Twain, Henry James);
• we will see paintings by artists from Thomas Cole to John Singer Sargent;
• we will discuss major historical events of the 19th century: the war of 1812, slavery and abolitionism, the war with Mexico, the gold rush, the industrial revolution, Civil War and reconstruction of the South
Jarosław Milewski
Łukasz Salski
dr hab. Paulina Pietrzak, Issues in Translation & Interpreting
The seminar addresses the latest theories, methodologies, and trends in non-literary translation and interpreting. Students will have the opportunity to investigate various concepts and typologies of translation theory and practice. Moreover, the seminar offers a grounding in research methods and provides an overview of basic and advanced concepts in linguistic analysis and translation studies.
The seminar is aimed at those who wish to write their BA dissertations on the topics involving:
▪ audiovisual translation
▪ interpreting
▪ strategies, methods and procedures in translation
▪ specialised translation
▪ terminology
▪ localisation
▪ translation quality assessment
▪ translation as a profession – trends, challenges and professional ethics
▪ revising and post-editing
▪ technology in translation
Aleksandra Majdzińska-Koczorowicz