English-French Translation Workshop I

TRIN 461 is a hands-on bridge between two foreign languages, training you to move texts in both directions between English and French without routing through Turkish — which forces you to think about meaning, register, and cultural framing rather than word-level substitution. Most weeks revolve around a translation assignment on a different domain (travel, sport, food, health, cinema, current affairs), each paired with a glossary you build yourself, plus a 3-hour in-class midterm and final that simulate real working conditions. It's where the comparative and theoretical groundwork from earlier translation courses gets stress-tested on actual texts, and it sets up the more specialized workshops that follow.