Web Translation (IV)
dr Maciej Litwin

This course provides basic knowledge about and practice opportunities in web translation. Each week students are given a different translation task set in a real-life scenario. Discussions and sharing sessions which follow student translation practice feature the challenges of digital literacy and the centrality of translation brief. Special attention is paid to in-house work for public institutions (house style and ethical dilemmas).

Scientific and Technical Translation (IV)
dr hab. Michał Szawerna

The goal of this course is twofold. On the one hand, the course provides a systematic overview of the main issues of scientific and technical translation with reference to translation of academic texts in the area of linguistics and utilitarian technical texts. On the other hand, the course provides an opportunity for a practical application of the knowledge of these issues in translating scientific and technical texts of varying length and complexity.

Audiovisual Translation (VI)
dr hab. Michał Garcarz, prof. UWr

Theory is good only when it is practicable, thus the Audiovisual Translation course is entirely practical. Each segment of the course is devoted to practising one of several translation methods (i.e. dubbing, subtitling, voice-over/narration) used today in Poland on the translation market. Only if you participate in that course will you be able to answer the following questions:

• How to watch a film/movie to find its original essence necessary to translate?
• What not to translate in films/movies?
• What tools do film/movie translators use?
• How to verify the quality of film/movie translations?
• Is that profession really for me?

Yes, there are tons of booklet manuals, online presentations, and Youtube instructions on how to translate films/movies. They, however, are not interactive and don’t enable you to find answers to all your doubts and questions. We, during this course, will address them all to help you become a film/movie translator in the future. 

Business Translation (V)
dr Marcin Walczyński

The course in business translation will be devoted to developing students’ skills in translating business documents. Many graduates of English tend to find their jobs in large international companies, in which the skills of business translation turn out to be of vital importance. For this reason, the Institute of English Studies of the University of Wrocław will offer its third-year students of English a course in this area of translation expertise. During the course, students will be familiarised with a variety of business documents (employment documents, business letters, agreements and contracts, financial documents, company documents, marketing and advertising documents), relevant business vocabulary and the manners of translating those materials from Polish/English into English/Polish. It is believed that the course will equip students with the knowledge and skills that they – as graduates – will be able to use in their professional endeavours after completing the studies at the Institute of English Studies.

Literary Translation (IV)
dr Piotr Czajka

The course „Literary Translation” is based on one fundamental assumption: translation is not the job of unpacking objectively perceptible meanings from the “box” of the utterance in one language and packing them in the appropriate “boxes” of words in another language, appropriate meaning here: recommended in dictionaries, by theoreticians of translation or by contrastive linguists. The translator is not an officer whose professionalism equals following a set of complex but clear and coherent rules. The translator is rather an individual engaged in the construction of a dialogue between a communicative event caused by the original text and a communicative event to be caused by the translated text. The translator’s professionalism is therefore the skill to bring about parallelisms between these two events and readiness to do it in a responsible way. This skill may be, at least to a certain extent, evoked and developed and this is the aim of the course. During the classes in “Literary Translation” this skill is developed through working with fragments of authentic literary texts. Such texts allow the students not only to experience the challenges connected with the liquidity and negotiability of linguistic communications but also to get familiar with typical problems observed at the borderline between Polish and English, such as the acceptability of collocations, signaling the grammatical gender, and expressing definiteness and the perfective aspect of verbs.

Translation Practice (V)
dr Marcin Walczyński

The third-year students of English, pursuing the translation specialisation, will have a chance to test their knowledge and skills developed during the translation specialisation courses taught at the Institute of English Studies in practice – in translation agencies, international companies and any other entities, in which the English language is a working language. During the translation practice, especially the one in translation agencies, students work under the supervision of professional translators performing a variety of translation tasks which make up the real-life translation process – from preparing glossaries, through assisting several people involved in the different stages of the translation process (like, for example, translating, proofreading, reviewing etc.) to translating itself. The translation practice should provide students with the opportunities to verify their translation skills, to further develop their translation expertise as well as to learn some new aspects of translation or to develop interests in new specialisation areas. The coordinator of translation practice at the Institute of English Studies encourages students to find the place of their translation practice on their own – in the area of students’ interest. However, the Institute of English Studies cooperates with several translation companies, in which students can pursue their translation practice.

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ENGLISH IN PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION PROGRAMME (JĘZYK ANGIELSKI W KOMUNIKACJI PROFESJONALNEJ)
English in professional communication programme is organised as follows:

semester	course	ECTS
3	Wstęp do komunikacji profesjonalnej – biznes / Introduction to professional business communication	3
3	Wstęp do komunikacji profesjonalnej – prawo / Introduction to professional communication – law	3
4	Komputerowe opracowywanie tekstów biznesowych / Computer skills for creating business texts	2
4	Przekład tekstów biznesowych / Business translation	2
4	Różnice kulturowe a zachowania w biznesie / Intercultural Business Communication	1
4	Komunikacja profesjonalna i sztuka negocjacji / Business Communication and Negotiation Skills	1
4	Praktyka zawodowa / Professional practice	2
5	Słownictwo w tekstach biznesowych / Vocabulary in business texts	2
5	Język angielski dla biznesu – finanse, bankowość, gospodarka / English in business – finance, banking, and economy	2
total		18

Below you can find a description of the courses. Please note that some of these courses refer to business communication in Poland and in English speaking countries. Consequently, you need to be able to speak Polish to take part in some of these courses.

Introduction to professional business communication

The aim of the course is to make students familiar with the business environment underlying any business communication and shaping its language (business processes, organizations and conditions in Poland and in major English speaking countries). The course contents include: the company and partnership as basic business organizations, securities and securities trading, pooled investment vehicles, taxes, tariffs and remuneration. Each of these areas covers discussing the relevant business process and terminology in Polish and English. The illustrations invoked during the lecture touch also on politeness issues in business communication and grammar peculiar to this type of communication.

Introduction to professional communication – law

The general objective of the course is to acquaint the student with the specificity of legalese as a specialised subtype of natural language both in its written and oral manifestation.

Specific objectives of the course include:

1. Indicating and discussing legal, custom and ethical norms regulating the profession of a specialist for legal terminology

2. Discussing typical contexts of use of legal terminology as well as typical legal activities in which a specialist for legal terminology may participate.

3. Acquianting students with types and samples of texts in legal transactionsComputer skills for creating business texts

The objectives of the course:

-to familiarize students with formal and linguistic aspects of written texts used in business communication

-to familiarize students with formal and linguistic aspects of spoken texts used in business communication

– to familiarize students with software and language resources facilitating creating and editing texts used in business communication

Business translation

Course contents:

1. The translation of employment-related documents
2. The translation of business correspondence
3. The translation of contracts/agreements
4. The translation of business company documentation
5. The translation of business marketing and promotional materials

Intercultural Business Communication

This course focuses on business communication in intercultural environments. Never in the history were interactions among people and businesses from different cultures as easy and frequent as in the last decades. Increasing cultural complexity of contemporary social and business environments require an understanding of the importance of coping with and managing cultural differences in a way that they become an opportunity. Mastering intercultural communication is important for many managerial tasks and business situations, including: negotiating, socializing, giving presentations, advertising, applying for a job, managing and working in multicultural teams etc. In the period of globalization, intercultural communicative competence is a critical source of a firm’s competitive advantage. Cross-cultural communication theories and a cultural framework will be used to assist in the analysis, evaluation and creation of appropriate business messages addressed to a selection of culture-specific audiences.

Business Communication and Negotiation Skills

The objectives of the course:

-To familiarize students with ways of professional communication: personal training and business life management;

– To familiarize students with ways of negotiating: strategies and methods in business negotiating;

– To familiarize students with elements of savoir-vivre in business communication and with ways to effective public speech.

Professional practice – objectives:

1. Familiarising students with the practical aspects of working in business environment with the use of business English.
2. Practising the skills of writing and translating various business texts.
3. Developing the skills of proofreading and verifying the written or translated business texts.
4. Developing the skills of using various types of basic translation- and professional communication-aiding computer software.

English in business – finance, banking, and economy

This course is designed to introduce students to modern language of banking and finance, and through this device – to the basic concepts of the capitalist economy.

This objective will be achieved through a series of language exercises that aim to reflect the diachronic and thematic diversity of language of banking, finance and economics in the US and the UK.

The exercises in question will add up to a historical narrative that runs from the emergence of modern financial institutions and banking in the 17^th century to the economic collapse of 2008.

The exercises will build on the following questions:

Banking and finance

1. What is a currency?
2. How do banks work?
3. How does the stock exchange work?
4. What did the evolution of banking in the last forty years consist in?
5. What was the immediate cause of the market crash of 2008? What is sub-prime lending? What are mortgage-backed securities?

Modern economy

1. What are the philosophical and ethical foundations of western market economy?
2. How does the EU currency work?

All of the exercises combined will acquaint students with a spectrum of basic finance and banking English, drawing on a variety of writing genres and media formats (books, press report, in-house memo, board meeting minutes, magazine editorial, Power Point presentation; fiction feature film, documentary). Students will be made aware of basic differences between British English, American English, and global English (special focus on the EU context).

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