NCHU Course Outline

Course Name	(中) 影視翻譯(2518)
Course Name	(Eng.) Audio-Visual Translation
Offering Dept	Continuing Bachelor Program in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Course Type	Elective	Credits	2	Teacher	WANG, YUAN-YANG
Department	Continuing Bachelor Program in Foreign Languages and Literatures(N)Undergraduate	Language	中/英文	Semester	2026-SPRING
Course Description	This course is aimed at equipping students with skills and strategies for subtitling and translation. Students will be trained to apply these skills by reading and discussing both subtitles and translated works from a wide variety of sources (feature films, documentary films, film adaptations of literature, TED videos). Students are also encouraged to apply the skills by translating assigned films and videos.
Prerequisites				self-directed learning in the course	Y

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Week	Course Content
Week 1	W1 Introduction Format and regulations of audio-visual translation
Week 2	W2 Basic Translation Skills-I Feature Film: Bring It On (2000) Skills: shift of perspective / inversion / conversion
Week 3	W3 Basic Translation Skills-II Feature Film: Bring It On (2000) Skills: amplification / omission / adaption
Week 4	W4 Translating Dialogues in a Documentary Film Documentary Film: The Emperor’s New Clothes (2015) Skills: Translation of dialogues in a demonstration
Week 5	W5 Translating Dialogues in a Romance Film Adaptation of English Literature: Joe Right’s Pride and Prejudice (2005) Skills: Translation of dialogues in contexts of hierarchy
Week 6	W6 Translating Dialogues in a Zombie Movie Film Adaptation of American Literature: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) Skills: Translation of a parody of a classic work
Week 7	W7 Translating a Super/Title-I (a) Documentary Film: The Emperor’s New Clothes (2015) Skills: translation of a slogan (b) Feature Film: Twilight (2008) Skills: translation of visual information
Week 8	Mid-term Exam
Week 9	Film Viewing and Translation Practice: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Week 10	W10 Translating a Super/Title-II Feature Film: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Skills: translation of a character’s memory
Week 11	W11 Translating Dialogues in a Fantasy Film Adaptation of Chinese literature: Painted Skin (2008) Skills: translation of a song in a movie with rhyming
Week 12	W12 Translating a TED talk Video Video: “Inspiring the next generation of female engineers: Debbie Sterling” Skills: translation of a public speech
Week 13	Student Oral Presentation-I Presenters should translate assigned parts in a movie clip Peer Review: using an evaluation sheet
Week 14	Student Oral Presentation-II Presenters should translate assigned parts in a movie clip Peer Review: using an evaluation sheet
Week 15	Student Oral Presentation-III & Wrapping Up Presenters should translate assigned parts in a movie clip Peer Review: using an evaluation sheet
Week 16	Final Exam
self-directed learning	02.Viewing multimedia materials related to industry and academia. Analyzing and comparing the different versions of translation done by 旁白鴿 and 双喜電影. (《媽的多重宇宙》)

Evaluation

Attendance & Participation – 15%
Mid-term Exam – 25%
Final Exam - 25%
Translation Practice – 10%
Oral Presentation – 25%

Textbook & other References

1. Bring It On. Peyton Reed dir. 2000.
2. Pride and Prejudice. Joe Wright dir. 2005.
3. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Burr Steer dir. 2016.
4. Twilight. Catherine Hardwicke dir. 2008.
5. Everything Everywhere All at Once. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert dir. 2022.
6. 《畫皮》(Painted Skin)，葉偉信導，東方電影公司譯者團隊譯。東方影業，2008。
7. 《惡搞豬本大作戰》（紀錄片），麥可‧溫特波頓（Michael Winterbottom）導，王遠洋譯，高雄電影節，2015。
8. 周兆祥。《翻譯初階》。書林，1996。

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