69763 - Technical-Scientific Translation from Russian into Italian

Academic Year 2014/2015

  • Moduli: Raffaella Romagnoli (Modulo 1) Ilaria Lelli (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in SPECIALISED TRANSLATION (cod. 8061)

Course contents

The course objective is to provide students with the necessary skills to translate real technical-scientific texts from Russian to Italian, approaching specialized texts as professional translators do.

Students will develop their translation skills, their problem solving ability, enhancing the capability to find adequate documentation, from one hand, and from the other hand facing terminological hurdles related to the study fields, whose main concepts will be analyzed.

Part held by Lelli: medicine, chemistry and astronomy

Part held by Romagnoli: mathematcs and physics

Readings/Bibliography

Scarpa, Federica (2008). La traduzione specializzata. Un approccio didattico professionale. Milano: Hoepli


Cadorin, Elisa (2011). Il russo tecnico-scientifico. Milano: Hoepli

Assessment methods

Translation in a classroom equipped with computers of a text of the same typology seen during the course.

Office hours

See the website of Raffaella Romagnoli

See the website of Ilaria Lelli