Fall 2016 - WL 105W D100
World Literature Lab (3)
Class Number: 8633
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Sep 6 – Dec 5, 2016: Mon, 2:30–5:20 p.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Joel Heng Hartse
jhenghar@sfu.ca
Office: WMC1397
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Instructor:
Melek Ortabasi
mso1@sfu.ca
1 778 782-8660
Office: AQ5117
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Incorporates academic and creative writing assignments through hands-on exploration of language, literacy, and literature across cultures. Includes translation exercises and writing workshops. Additional language fluency highly recommended but not required. Writing.
COURSE DETAILS:
This innovative “learning lab” will open your eyes to the powerful ways in which language and literature shape the world. The ingredients in this experiment? You and your fellow students! This writing-intensive, first-year course will introduce the ways in which multilingualism, translation, and cultural identity are beautiful as well as fundamental to knowledge. The course offers an exploratory approach to writing through the lens of world literature, and in it, we’ll be doing writing that is academic, creative, personal, and translingual. Working collaboratively, we will develop experiential and theoretical knowledge of translation; read, write about, and produce translingual texts; and explore the connections between literature and literacy. By engaging with classmates and the community, we will learn to better negotiate the fascinating multilingual environment we all share. Working knowledge of more than one language is not required, but is warmly welcomed. The goal is to very deliberately approach language differences as a resource, not a problem.
COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:
Through this course of study, students will:
• improve their English language writing, reading and speaking;
• explore fundamental translation theories and practice;
• develop and execute an innovative translation project;
• apply their learning to a community-engaged project.
Grading
- Quizzes 10%
- Literary Translation Project 30%
- Community Language Project 30%
- Portfolio 30%
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
• Weinberger, Eliot, Octavio Paz, and Wei Wang. Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem Is Translated. Mount Kisco, N.Y: Moyer Bell, 1987.
• Other readings will be made available through SFU Library or through Canvas
Registrar Notes:
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