Upon successful completion of the course unit, the student will be familiar with localisation as a professional field and as a research topic and will be able to analyse and assess localised products.
Contents
The student will be familiar with the concepts of internationalisation, globalisation, and localisation as well as with the relationship between localisation and translation. The course unit comprises analyses and exercises related to localising products such as websites, games, and software, and an introduction to the labour market, theory, and research in the field of localisation. Completion of the course unit requires active participation, acceptable completion of the exercises, and a learning diary.
Teaching language
Finnish
Modes of study
Option
1
Available for:
Degree Programme Students
Other Students
Open University Students
Doctoral Students
Exchange Students
Participation in course work
In
Finnish
Evaluation
Numeric 1-5.
Evaluation
Pass/fail.
Study materials
- Gesellschaft für Technische Kommunikation e.V. (Sections to be read will be agreed on with the course instructor.)
- Hofstede, Geert. The Hofstede Centre (Sections will be agreed on with the course instructor.)
- O’Hagan, Minako & Mangiron, Carmen 2013. Game Localization. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins. (Sections will be agreed on with the course instructor.)
- Pym, Anthony 2004. The Moving Text: Localization, Translation, and Distribution. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins. Available electronically. (Sections will be agreed on with the course instructor.)