B.A. in Multimedia and Mass Communication Translation Skills Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026

This is the FY BAMMC syllabus under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2024-25. The University has not yet published an NEP syllabus for the third year of this degree, and still examines Semesters V and VI on the earlier CBCS scheme, so check which scheme your exam form names before you revise.

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Syllabus for Translation Skills

Major · Semester 2 · FY BAMMC · 2 credits

Module I: BASICS OF TRANSLATION

A What is Translation? How is it done in different modes and disciplines and application in media.
B Myths about Translation. Meaning of Faithful Translation (The Task of the Translator, Walter Benjamin's essay).
C Learning how to translate: Communicative translation. Transliteration as the failure of translation

Module II: TYPES OF TRANSLATION

A Formal translation and Word to Word translation: Verbal, literal and lexical level
B Semantic Translation
C Grammatical level, including symbols, images, literary devices and style in translation.
D Adaptation and Transfer of form or Inter-Media Translation:
E Media Transfer in fiction to film or drama to film and so on. Elements of Style. (practical and INTERNAL marks)
F Use of imagery, non-verbal communication and intonation in translation.
G Free Translation: The Translator's license and question of zero translatability

Module III: TRANSLATION AND ADAPTATION

A Translating biographies of important personalities fin cinematic or dramatic style.
B Film Adaptations: making films out of literary stories, fiction or plays

Module IV: CULTURAL KNOLEDGE AND COMPUTER ASSISTED TRANSLATION (CAT)

A Translation as Transference of Meaning, as Interpretation and as a Political,
Social Protest in the different streams of writing (the Feminist, Post-Colonial and Postmodern literature
B Understanding differences between people with different backgrounds. Moral, spiritual values, customs and traditions Idioms and phrases, references and slang, etc
C Translation in Social Media and Literature: A Comparative glance
D Understanding Computer Assisted Computer softwares

Module V: JOBS AS TRANSLATORS

A Roles and responsibilities
2 New possibilities in Literature, National and International education, International Affairs, law, business, finance, science, technology and medicine

REFERENCE BOOKS/JOURNALS/MANUALS

1 Baker, Mona and Gabriela Saldanha, eds. Routledge Encyclopaedia of Translation
2 Studies. Routledge, London/New York, 1998.
3 Bassnett, Susan-McGuire. Translation Studies. Methun /Routledge, London, 1980.
4 Bassnett, Susan-McGuire and Andre Lefever (eds). Translation, History and
5 Culture. Pinter Publishers, London, 1990.
6 Lakshmi, H (ed). Problems of Translation. Hyderabad: Books links Corporation, 1993.
7 Mukherjee, Sujit. Translation as Discovery. Orient Longman, 1994.
8 Robinson, Douglas(ed). Western Translation Theory from Herodotus to Nietzsche. St Jerome publishing, Manchester, 1997

Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.A. in Multimedia and Mass Communication under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2024-25. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.

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