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| Course Name | Translation for International Finance (E-J) (Course No:52054) | ||||||||||||
| Category | Expert Competence | ||||||||||||
| Year Taken | First or Second Year | ||||||||||||
| Offered Major/ Type of Course | Major 2 / Elective | ||||||||||||
| Number of Credit | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Number of Classes | 16 | ||||||||||||
| Professor | Takaaki Maeda Email address : takaaki.m@babel.edu |
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| Course Description | Read news, editorials, and essays related to international finance in newspapers and professional journals written in English. | ||||||||||||
| Course Policy | Attendance : Enter the course with password. |
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| Course Objective (Goal) | Obtain knowledge and skills in international finance translation through reading and translating English printed media. | ||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | Translate accurately, comprehensively, and fluently various English articles, commentaries, editorials and other documents in the field of international finance into Japanese by understanding and becoming familiar with terminology, word and idiom usage, writing style of such articles, commentaries, editorials and other documents in the field of international finance in both the U.S. and Japan. Translate at a speed of 250 words per hour (source language). | ||||||||||||
| Course Progression | Translate the original text referring to notes and audio lectures. Self-evaluate the translation using translated examples and explanations, if any. Submit assignment. |
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| Deliverable (Course Text, etc) | Course pack (16 chapters) *Authored originally by Professor for this course. Copyrighted by Babel University Professional School of Translation. *Revised in November 2012. |
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| Course Outline | Lesson 1: International Currency Trends- 1 Asian Currency Crisis Lesson 2: International Currency Trends- 2 Japanese Yen Lesson 3: International Currency Trends- 3 US Dollar and Euro Lesson 4: International Currency Trends- 4 China Ranminbi Lesson 5: Economic Trends by Country- 1 China-1 Lesson 6: Economic Trends by Country- 2 China-2 Lesson 7: Economic Trends by Country- 3 China-3 Lesson 8: Economic Trends by Country- 4 Korea and Taiwan Lesson 9: Economic Trends by Country- 5 Other Asian Countries-1 Lesson 10: Economic Trends by Country- 6 Other Asian Countries-2 Lesson 11: Economic Trends by Country- 7 Japan-1 Lesson 12: Economic Trends by Country- 8 Japan-2 Lesson 13: Economic Trends by Country- 9 United States-1 Lesson 14: Economic Trends by Country- 10 United States-2 Lesson 15: Foreign Exchange Transactions- 1 Investment Funds Lesson 16: Foreign Exchange Transactions- 2 Other Transactions |
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| Grade Evaluation and Course Requirement | 1. Assignments (All assignments must be submitted) 2. Final Exam (Minimum Course Requirement: B or above) Submission papers will be returned with the evaluation sheet, which states evaluation marking and comments as well as corrections with rubrics. |
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