PRNJ007 Subtitels

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Jan Ciosk (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Aleš Urválek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Aleš Urválek, Ph.D.
Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
The course is primarily for translational students. It requires a good knowledge of German and Czech as well as the willingness to do more time-consuming homework.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course introduces you to subtitling (including subtitling for the hearing-impaired) and briefly introduces you to other work areas (audiobooks for the blind, voice-overs, film interpreting, theater subtitles).
At the end of the course, the student should be able to subtitle properly and detect any possible subtitling violations.
The thesis was intended to motivate participants to choose subtitling as the topic of the Master's thesis.
Learning outcomes
Presentations of individual students to a not yet subtitled film.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction to the problem, social and legal aspects of subtitler work, Subtitle Workshop 6, topics of the presentations, completion modalities in the course
  • 2. Streamlining and shortening the dialogues
  • 3. Spoken and written language
  • 4. Corpora and some tricks while searching in Google
  • 5. Synchronize and subtitle. A comparison.
  • 6. Limits of creativity and play of word games. Subjects for your examinations and diploma projects
  • 7. Presentations of individual students I (D-H) 8. Presentations of individual students II (J-L) 9. Presentations of individual students III (M-P) 10. Presentations of Individual Students IV (R-V)
Literature
  • POŠTA, Miroslav. Titulkujeme profesionálně. Druhé, opravené a doplněn. Praha: Apostrof, 2012, 157 stran. ISBN 9788087561164. info
  • JÜNGST, Heike Elisabeth. Audiovisuelles Übersetzen : ein Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch. Tübingen: Narr, 2010, viii, 197. ISBN 9783823365020. info
  • DÍAZ CINTAS, Jorge and Aline REMAEL. Audiovisual translation : subtitling. Manchester, UK: St. Jerome, 2007, xii, 272. ISBN 9781900650953. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, class discussion.
Assessment methods
Active participation in class, homework and preparation of an own presentation on a topic agreed with the teacher.
Language of instruction
German
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
General note: Úvodní blok s Miroslavem Poštou 22. a 23. února, další termíny 29. února, 7. března, 14 března, 18. dubna, 25. dubna 2. května.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Schopnost orientovat se v anglických manuálech programů
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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