Unit name | Translation and Adaptation |
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Unit code | THTR30007 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Dr. Krebs |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of Theatre |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit introduces students to a range of issues related to adaptation and translation in theatre and performance. Covering areas such as conceptual approaches to the investigation of adaptation and translation practices and histories, as well as practical approaches to adaptation and translation, this unit will engage critically and practically with such modes of re-writing. Starting with a historical perspective of the practice of and distinction between adaptation and translation, students will encounter a whole spectrum of examples, ranging from the popular, such as the musical, to the avant-garde and postdramatic. Students will explore the relationship between notions of authorship and original which form the basis of historic understandings of adaptation and translation as process and product. A range of ways of working with source texts in order to produce adaptations and/or translations will be introduced and students will explore strategies for re-writing and re-imagining a variety of texts. These practical explorations will be analysed in terms of their artistic, economic, political and ideological contexts.
Aims
Teaching will be delivered through a combination of synchronous and asynchronous sessions, including seminars, practical writing workshops and self-directed exercises.
Formative assessment: workshop presentation of work-in-progress ILOs 2, 3, 5
Summative assessment: 4000 word critically annotated script (2500 word script; 1500 word annotation) The annotation should identify and elucidate your translational and/or adaptational choices, offering insight into your decision-making process. ILOS 1-5
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How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours
of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks,
independent learning and assessment activity.
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Assessment
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assessment, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (this is usually in the next assessment period).
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