Maîtrise en traductologie
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Le programme

Notre maîtrise en traductologie est le seul programme de ce type au Canada qui n’exige pas que les candidats maîtrisent l’anglais et le français.  Vous acquerrez une compréhension de la traduction en découvrant la manière dont les traducteurs font face aux défis, aux obstacles, aux conflits et aux problèmes éthiques. Vous obtiendrez un diplôme avec une gamme complète d’outils théoriques, conceptuels et méthodologiques nécessaires à une analyse et à une compréhension approfondies des questions liées à la traduction. Dans le cadre de votre diplôme, vous aurez la possibilité de rédiger en anglais ou en français une thèse ou un mémoire de recherche sur un large éventail de sujets de recherche et de combinaisons linguistiques. 

Vous découvrirez que notre programme propose une variété d’activités axées sur la recherche tout au long de l’année, telles qu’une École d’été en traductologie, des conférences, des ateliers, des événements de réseautage et un colloque étudiant annuel. Vous pouvez également participer à des événements autour du Groupe de recherche sur la traduction et le contact transculturel, qui fait partie du Centre de recherche sur le contact des langues et des cultures. 

Découvrez comment chaque année d’étude est organisée et comment lancer votre carrière selon votre majeure.

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Les cours 

Durant vos études, vous suivrez des cours qui vous proposent une approche approfondie et équilibrée à la traductologie, allant des cours d’introduction aux cours spécialisés, tels que Traduire Balzac, Research Methods in Translation Studies et Translation and Philosophy. 

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TRAS 5328 3.0 (S1) Audio Visual Translation and Subtitling (online)
Course Description

This course examines the principles and practice of audio-visual translation, as opposed to other translating modes. It covers all relevant linguistic, cultural, cognitive and technical constraints to AV translation, including inter-lingual and monolingual subtitling, dubbing and voiceover.

TRAS 5151 3.0 (S2) The City in Translation: Negotiating Linguistic Plurality in Urban Spaces
Course Description

This interdisciplinary course investigates translation and multilingualism as they relate to the experience of the city. It provides an opportunity to study translation and various forms of languaging in narrative and poetic praxis, and explore the multilingual condition as a lived experience of translation in various cities, with an emphasis in Toronto.

TRAS 5100 3.0 TRANSLATION STUDIES (online)
Course Description

This course is an introduction to the field of translation studies through a survey of the various ways in which the practice of translation has been understood, defined and theorized since the beginning of the twentieth century.

TRAS 5190 3.0 Cultural Translation – Beyond Textual Practices
Course Description

This course explores the translation of cultural practices in various contexts and periods, primarily through non-textual means. Readings and case studies serve as the basis for an examination of the intersections between culture and translation.

TRAS 5801 3.0 Traffic in/of meaning: intersections of travel writing and translation
Course Descripton

This graduate seminar, crosslisted in Translation Studies and Humanities, is designed to help students understand travel writing and translation as interdependent and historically located practices shaped by human and material conditions of textualization. It aims to cultivate critical awareness of the role of travellers and translators in the construction and circulation of representations, primarily (although not exclusively) in colonial contexts. Beginning with an exploration of the two activities as constituting each other as well as linked to the disciplines of history, anthropology, and linguistics, we engage in a comparative reading of a range of travel texts in conjunction with critical theories to explore the colonial space as a contact/translation zone, marked by malleable identities, partial overlaps and transgressions. Keeping in mind the dominance of Anglophone texts in travel writing studies, we devote a substantial part of the discussions to exploring a) Francophone accounts b) nonEuropean travel with a focus on Asian travellers. This seminar is open to students proficient in English or French, and strongly encourages a bilingual/multilingual approach to class discussions.

TRAS 5240 3.0 Desire in Translation: Explorations in Contemporary Theories and Practices
Course Description

Offers a survey of theories and practices of literary translation that seek to account for the unpredictable effects of the cultural unconscious in the translator’s work. Drawing on a range of psychoanalytic theories of cultural production and translation, the course asks questions about the role of desire in translation, and its multifaceted implications with regards to the translator’s agency and her role as cultural producer.

TRAS 5000 3.0 Research Methods in Translation Studies
Course Description

This course introduces students to current research methods in translation studies. Through assigned readings, in-class discussions and related exercises, students become familiar with standard methods of reading, collecting, processing and presenting data, through both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Students are also introduced to research ethics. Topics covered include how to write a literature review, how to choose a theoretical framework, how to analyze a text using methods from various disciplines, and how to conduct process-based research. In Weeks 1-3 the course discusses epistemological questions related to the field of Translation Studies, including how to define key concepts and prepare research questions. Weeks 4-6 focus on different types of text analysis, including discourse analysis and narrative analysis. Weeks 7-8 involve a workshop where students present and discuss questions related to the literature reviews and theoretical frameworks they have been preparing. Weeks 9-11 explores research ethics and sociological approaches such as observation and surveys, while Week 12 considers how research methods may differ in the future and what research avenues still need to be explored.

TRAS 5165 3.0/TRAN 4255 3.0 Communications, Translation and Ethics
Course Description

This course discusses the intercultural issues in contexts of asymmetrical and conflictual exchanges. Students will develop ethical reasoning skills based on critical analysis, inclusion, cooperation, informed decision-making and anticipation of results.

TRAS 5701 3.0 Postsecondary Pedagogies for the Humanities
Course Description

This introductory course is aimed at graduate students interested in teaching humanities-based courses in an interlingual and intercultural context. It presents current pedagogical trends and applies them at the same time, to test their efficiency. To this end, current and diverse theoretical readings are presented, along with practical exercises.

TRAS 5185 3.0 Ideology of Translation and Translation of Ideology
Course Description
Explores the ideological dimensions of translation in various contexts. Through case studies covering literary and non-literary genres, students reflect on translation as a vector of ideology and on their own interventions as scholars.

TRAS 5185 3.0 IDEOLOGY OF TRANSLATION AND TRANSLATION OF IDEOLOGY (SU)

Course Description

This course explores the ideological dimensions of translation in various contexts. Through case studies covering literary and non-literary genres, students reflect on translation as a vector of ideology and on their own interventions as scholars.

TRAS 5345 3.0 TRANSLATING INTO A NON-NATIVE LANGUAGE (SU) (en ligne)

Course Description

This course introduces students to the theory and practice of translating into a non-native language. It will review the current literature on the subject in translation studies and linguistics and offer students practice in translating into their second or third languages.

TRAS 5100 3.0 TRANSLATION STUDIES (en ligne)

Course Description

This course is an introduction to the field of translation studies through a survey of the various ways in which the practice of translation has been understood, defined and theorized since the beginning of the twentieth century.

TRAS 5155 3.0 TRAVEL, TRANSLATION AND DISPLACEMENT

Course Description

Le séminaire vise à mieux comprendre l’inscription de la traduction dans un environnement multilingue et multiethnique, ainsi que dans les enjeux de la mondialisation. Seront abordées en particulier les questions du brouillage des frontières et du positionnement identitaire.

TRAS 5251 3.0 REVISING AND EDITING FOR PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATORS

Course Description

The course examines issues in revision in the Translation Studies literature and approaches to revision in the translation industry as well as the editing work performed by professional translators. Participants practice revision using various concepts of quality, with emphasis on justification of changes and on differing degrees of revision depending on the nature of texts and their intended readership.
The language of instruction is English but participants may speak in and submit assignments in either English or French.

TRAN 5130 3.0 HISTORY OF TRANSLATION AND CULTURAL TRANSFER

Course Description

A study of variation in the principles and practices of translation throughout history, focusing on socio-cultural factors. Emphasis is on the dominant uses of the concept of translation in the western world, with some excursions into non-western civilizations.


TRAN 5325 3.0 LITERARY TRANSLATION (en ligne)

Course Description

This seminar includes a considerable number of practical exercises as well as a theoretical component. Students first examine the principles, methods and objectives common to all fields of specialized translation before analyzing the terminology, knowledge base and writing conventions specific to one particular field.

TRAS 5501 3.0 HISPANIC CULTURAL TRADITIONS IN THE GTA. A LIFE NARRATIVE PROJECT

Course Description

This course examines the cultural traditions of Hispanic immigrants living in the GTA through their life narratives. It focuses on how they negotiate the multiplicity of cultural meanings at play in their everyday lives, and the role language(s) play(s) in such negotiations.

TRAS 5230 3.0 FICTIONAL APPROACHES TO TRANSLATION (ONLINE) S1

Course Description

This course offers an overview of the recent “fictional turn” in Translation Studies. Focusing on works of fiction and film that make use of translation as topos, or translators or interpreters as their protagonists, the course delves into the origins and implications of the fictional turn. Emphasis is made on fictional material which helps highlight issues and concepts in circulation in contemporary translation studies such as “translator’s visibility”, “metaphorics of translation”, “ethics”, “fidelity”, and “conflict”.

TRAS 5240 3.0 DESIRE IN TRANSLATION (online) S2

Course Description

This course offers a survey of theories and practices of literary translation that seek to account for the unpredictable effects of the cultural unconscious in the translator’s work. Drawing on a range of psychoanalytic theories of cultural production and translation, the course asks questions about the role of desire in translation, and its multifaceted implications with regards to the translator’s agency and her role as cultural producer.

TRAS 5100 3.0 TRANSLATION STUDIES (online)

Course Description

This course is an introduction to the field of translation studies through a survey of the various ways in which the practice of translation has been understood, defined and theorized since the beginning of the twentieth century.

TRAS-HUMA-EN 6157 3.0 COMPARATIVE AND WORLD LITERATURE SEMINAR: HISTORY AND PRACTICE

Course Description

Cross-listed in English, Humanities, and Translation Studies, this seminar introduces students to the conditions of emergence and development of the discipline of Comparative Literature from its beginnings in nineteenth-century Europe to its most recent global iteration of World Literature. Students will experience how expanded understandings of cultural translation and textuality have radically altered and expanded the Eurocentric character of the discipline.

TRAS 5322 3.0 SPECIALIZED TRANSLATION – MEDICINE (online)

Course Description

This seminar will discuss the stylistic specificities of a variety of medical documents dealing with various diseases or advices for their prevention. Translation exercises will be provided in the following language combinations: English-French; French-English; Spanish-English; Spanish-French. These exercises will serve as a basis for a thorough terminological research and the development of information files for documentation purposes. Translation memories, glossaries and database entries in the student’s language combination may be required as well. Information on the course will be available in French and/or English. Students with other language combinations can take the course as well.

TRAS 5165/TRAN 4255 3.0 COMMUNICATION, TRANSLATION AND ETHICS 

Course Description

This course discusses the intercultural issues in contexts of asymmetrical and conflictual exchanges. Students will develop ethical reasoning skills based on critical analysis, inclusion, cooperation, informed decision-making and anticipation of results.

TRAS 5342/FREN 5245/FREN 6209 3.0 BALZAC TRANSLATED-TRANSLATING BALZAC/BALZAC TRADUIT-TRADUIRE BALZAC

Course Description

Stemming from Translation and Reception theories (Jauss, Iser) and more recent cultural theories (Bassnett, Lefevere), this course highlights some of the issues – political, social, historical among others – that determine the translation of an author in a receiving country. Case studies of Balzac in English and in Chinese serve as a basis of study of his translation/reception in other languages and/or countries.

TRAS 5000 3.0 RESEARCH METHODS IN TRANSLATION STUDIES

Course Description

Introduces students to current research methods in translation studies. It reviews standard methods of reading, collecting, processing and presenting data. Students are also introduced to research ethics.

TRAS 5601 3.0 TRANSLATION AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

Course Description

This course investigates the intersection between translation and digital technologies Exposed to both theoretical perspectives and hands-on experience, students are encouraged to write final papers based on interdisciplinary scholarship relevant to a specific aspect of the course topic, and/or to carry out practice-oriented projects involving translation and digital technologies.

TRAS 5328 3.0 AUDIOVISUAL TRANSLATION AND SUBTITLING

Course Description

This course examines the principles and practice of audio-visual translation, as opposed to other translating modes. It covers all relevant linguistic, cultural, cognitive and technical constraints to AV translation, including inter-lingual and monolingual subtitling, dubbing and voiceover.

Découvrez les réalisations de nos étudiants


Découvrez la diversité des sujets et des disciplines que les étudiants de la maîtrise en traductologie ont explorés à travers leurs travaux et leurs publications.

Hind Ben Salama, 2021, Translation, Conflict and Mediation: How Translators ‘Re-narrate’ the Conflict

Natalia Davila, 2020, Spanish and French Translations of the Riddles in the Hobbit or there and back again: A Prismatic Approach

Laura How, 2020. Breaking Binaries: Rethinking Gendered Metaphors in Translation Theory

Alina Yevhenivna Zdrazhko, 2019. The Development of Ukrainian Children’s Literature Translation Tradition from Russian Imperialism through the Soviet Era to the Global Context. The Study of Various Translations of Rudyard Kipling’s Tale “The Cat that Walked by Himself” into Ukrainian

Ming Du, 2018. On Ezra Pounds’s Translation of Classical Chinese Poetry in Cathay

Anissa Bachan, 2017. Still Two Solitudes? Translation of Manifestos and Political Platforms in Quebec

Deanna Nemeth, 2017. Who Framed Conrad Black?: Language and Translation in Print Newspaper Articles

Abeer Alharbi, 2016. Saad Elkhadem’s The Plague in English: A Study of the Translation Strategies used to Recreate the Egyptian Ethos

Rachel Flynn, 2016. Audiovisual Translation, Ideology and Politics: A Case Study of the Effects of Franco-American Relations on Hollywood Film Translation

Adrijana Jerkic, 2015. Interpretation of Iconography and Iconography of Interpretation: Uncovering La Malinche

Camille Blais, 2024. L’usage des documents et des services en français par les francophones de Kapuskasing et de Hearst : une analyse critique du discours

Sofia Bragaglia, 2024. Accessing the Animus: A Case Study on Audiovisual Translation and Cultural Adaptation in Assassin’s Creed

Christina Yepremian, 2023. William Saroyan: The voice of an Immigrant Writer

Abd Darouzy, 2022. Positive Psychology in Translation: an Arabic into English Commented Translation
of Selected Chapters from the Updated Human by Sherif Arafa

Shakiba Sharifpour, 2022. Case Study: Gazing into four translations of an excerpt from the second sex

Yang Duan Yun, 2021. Cultural Shifts in a Chinese Medical Textbook Adapted for an English-Speaking Reader

Soliman Marwa, 2021. How geopolitics and political agendas affect journalism translation of reports by Human Rights Watch

Hongyang Ji, 2020. Dialogue between Chinese translation studies and Western translation studies: Eco-translatology and Western thinking

Babar Khan, 2020.  Metaphysical Equivalence: An Analysis of Walter Benajmin’s “The Translator’s Task”

Dina Elbourdini, 2020. Examining the domestication of Tao Te Ching for the Arab muslim reader case study: Amini’s Arabic Translation

Usman Shahid, 2018. Tackling the linguistic translation challenges of an Islamic Urdu text – A case study of Haqiqatul Wahi

Tania Pla Osca, 2017. The Baroque Stage translated: A preliminary study of the on-stage translation of Los Empenos De Una Casa

Shatha Mohammed Al Jabri, 2017. Translation of the Poet’s Reverie: Wordsworth’s “Daffodils” in Arabic

Wasilah Charbenny, 2015. A case study of Zabiba and the King’s Translation into English

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Prix étudiants 

Au sein du programme de maîtrise en traductologie, nous tenons à reconnaître votre réussite  et votre engagement envers l’excellence. Les prix et les bourses ne sont pas seulement un coup de pouce financier, mais aussi un excellent moyen de montrer votre travail acharné sur votre CV et votre relevé de notes universitaires. Consultez les bourses disponibles, dont la bourse d’études supérieures Daniel Simeoni en traduction. 

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