LATAM 160 - Building Language Justice: Translation, Migration, and Linguistic Human Rights

3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once

Description:
This interdisciplinary course introduces the concept of Language Justice through the field of Translation Studies. Students will study translation as a tool of both colonization and decolonization through readings in Latin American studies, literary translation, linguistic human rights, and translation activism. Language diversity is related but not easily mapped onto other categories including race, nationality, class, and citizenship status, and this course will use translation as a lens to analyze creative cultural forms that represent language diversity through the histories of migration in Latin America and the US. Creative activities and written assignments will hone critical thinking skills, enhance translation literacy, and attune students to the linguistic diversity around us and the choices that go into production any translated work. ***Taught in English, this is a hands-on, interactive course designed with the support of the Mellon Foundation.

Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: International

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