CONTEXT FOR DESIGNING A MA PROGRAMME IN NORWEGIAN LITERARY AND NON-LITERARY TRANSLATIONS AT BABEȘ-BOLYAI UNIVERSITY

Authors

  • Sanda TOMESCU BACIU Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: sanda.tomescu@ubbcluj.ro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7311-3749
  • Raluca POP Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: raluca.petrus@ubbcluj.ro https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7551-7344
  • Roxana-Ema DREVE Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: roxana.dreve@ubbcluj.ro https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5207-0666
  • Raluca‐Daniela RĂDUȚ Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: raluca_daniela_radut@yahoo.com
  • Fartein Thorsen ØVERLAND Babeș-Bolyai University, Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literatures, Romania. Email: farthegn@gmail.com
  • Ioana-Andreea MUREȘAN Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Letters, Romania. Email: ioana.muresan@lett.ubbcluj.ro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2020.3.02

Keywords:

Norwegian language, master’s programme, literary and non-literary translations, graduate education, Babeș-Bolyai University.

Abstract

Context for Designing a MA programme in Norwegian Literary and Non-Literary Translations at Babeș-Bolyai University. This study aims to explore the degree of motivation of current BA students and alumni as concerns their enrolment for a pilot MA-programme in Norwegian literary and non-literary translations at Babeș-Bolyai University (BBU). Details are provided regarding the context for designing such a unique master’s programme and the academic perspectives, as well as job opportunities that can be envisaged. A total of 147 respondents were included in this study and selected using convenience sampling. A structured questionnaire comprising open-ended and closed questions items was formulated in Romanian and sent online to respondents via Google forms. The study concludes that 95.2% of the respondents would be interested in enrolling for this pilot MA programme Norwegian literary and non-literary translations and thus, further consolidate their skills in Norwegian acquired during the BA programme in Norwegian language and literature.

REZUMAT: Contextul dezvoltării unui program masteral în domeniul traducerilor ficționale şi non-ficționale, în limba norvegiană, la Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai. Acest studiu își propune să exploreze gradul de motivație al actualilor studenți și al absolvenților specializării Limbă și literatură norvegiană în ceea ce privește interesul pentru înscrierea acestora la un program pilot de master în domeniul traducerilor ficționale și nonficționale la Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai (UBB). Sunt oferite detalii cu privire la contextul proiectării unui astfel de program masteral și al perspectivelor academice, precum și al oportunităților de muncă ce pot fi avute în vedere. Un total de 147 de respondenți au fost incluși în acest studiu și au fost selectați utilizând eșantionarea de comoditate. Un chestionar structurat cuprinzând itemi cu întrebări deschise și închise a fost formulat în limba română și trimis online către respondenți prin intermediul aplicației formulare Google. Studiul concluzionează faptul că 95,2% dintre respondenți ar fi interesați să se înscrie la acest program masteral desfășurat în limba norvegiană în domeniul traducerilor ficționale și nonficționale. Acest demers va susține consolidarea competențelor lingvistice în limba norvegiană dobândite în timpul programului de licență – Limbă și literatura norvegiană.

Cuvinte cheie: limba norvegiană, program masterat, traduceri ficționale, traduceri nonficționale, învățământ superior, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai.

Author Biographies

Sanda TOMESCU BACIU, Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: sanda.tomescu@ubbcluj.ro

Professor, Ph.D., at the Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature, and founder of the Norwegian language and literature BA programme in Romania at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (1991). Ph.D. advisor, she published studies on Nordic literature and translated Norwegian literature into Romanian. Email: sanda.tomescu@ubbcluj.ro

Raluca POP, Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: raluca.petrus@ubbcluj.ro

Senior Lecturer, Ph.D., at The Department of the Didactics of Social Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Her research area comprises communication skills, intercultural communication competence and teaching English, Norwegian and Swedish as foreign languages. Email: raluca.petrus@ubbcluj.ro

Roxana-Ema DREVE, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: roxana.dreve@ubbcluj.ro

Associate Professor at the Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. Ph.D. thesis on the theme of childhood and fractal analysis in J.M.G. Le Clézio and Göran Tunström’s works.  She has published articles on childhood, fractal analysis, science and literature. Email roxana.dreve@lett.ubbcluj.ro; roxana.dreve@ubbcluj.ro

Raluca‐Daniela RĂDUȚ, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: raluca_daniela_radut@yahoo.com

Senior Lecturer, Ph.D., at the Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca; has published the book entitled “The Poetry of Jan Erik Vold and the Norwegian Lyric Modernism in the 1960s” and a series of articles on Norwegian contemporary poetry. Email: raluca_daniela_radut@yahoo.com

Fartein Thorsen ØVERLAND, Babeș-Bolyai University, Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literatures, Romania. Email: farthegn@gmail.com

Visiting Norwegian Lecturer at the Babeș-Bolyai University, Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literatures; has published articles on corpus linguistics, Old Norse language, skaldic poetry and deep learning. Email: farthegn@gmail.com

Ioana-Andreea MUREȘAN, Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Letters, Romania. Email: ioana.muresan@lett.ubbcluj.ro

Ph.D. candidate at Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Letters. She is doing research on the quest for identity of Norwegian immigrants in America as it emerges from the immigrant narratives. Email: ioana.muresan@lett.ubbcluj.ro

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STUDIA UBB PHILOLOGIA, Volume 65 (LXV), No. 3, September 2020

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2020-09-30

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TOMESCU BACIU, S., POP, R., DREVE, R.-E., RĂDUȚ, R., ØVERLAND, F. T., & MUREȘAN, I.-A. (2020). CONTEXT FOR DESIGNING A MA PROGRAMME IN NORWEGIAN LITERARY AND NON-LITERARY TRANSLATIONS AT BABEȘ-BOLYAI UNIVERSITY. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia, 65(3), 17–29. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2020.3.02

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