3credit hour(s)Prerequisite:SPAN 2120 or department approval Introduces the art and profession of translation with a focus on practical translation problems in Spanish. Studies texts from the area of journalism, law, business and literature for translation from Spanish to English and from English to Spanish. This course provides an introduction to the art of translation and an overall view of this field. Students will sharpen their insight on linguistic issues, vocabulary and grammatical structures of Spanish and English, and they will develop analytical thinking into the nature of translation. This course will examine basic techniques in translation, and will develop student’s competence in solving translation problems through practical examples. Throughout the course students will translate numerous text from Spanish to English and English to Spanish from the fields of: journalism, business, law, computer science and medicine.