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Boston University – Community Interpreting |
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Harvard University - Extension School |
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University of Massachusetts, Amherst - Translation Center |
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Boston
University – Community Interpreting |
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Program Description |
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The Boston University offers programs in community, legal, and medical interpreting for multilingual professionals who are able to speak, read, and write English and Chinese, Portuguese, or Spanish fluently. The students are part of cohort groups. There are classes for Portuguese and Spanish speakers starting in September, and classes for Chinese speakers annually beginning in January.
Community Interpreting
Students will be exposed to the requirements and vocabulary of social service interpreting, educational plans, advocacy issues, and the proper interpreter ethic to use when interfacing between government representatives and individuals and groups in a variety of settings. Community interpreters facilitate access to legal, educational, medical and social services. They may work for state agencies, municipal agencies, neighborhood clinics, attorneys, investigators, union representatives, advertising firms, doctors, city mayors, news media or police departments. Often they develop private clients within the language community they serve.
Introduction to Communication and Written Translation Community/Public Service Interpreting
Legal Interpreting
This program acquaints students with the various courts and other forums where legal interpreting most often takes place. Each forum and each type of legal procedure is governed by different expectations, protocol, and vocabulary requirements for the interpreter. Students study the professional ethics of legal interpreting. They learn to apply formal rules and standards to specific situations, learn about the specialized tools and skills of legal interpreting, and start working on their prospects.
This course presents the full range of legal scenarios that commonly employ interpreters, from criminal court sessions to depositions to financial affairs to hearings before immigration authorities. It is imperative that interpreters working in this area understand the fundamentals of legal processes and have mastered legal terminology, so there is an emphasis on acquiring this knowledge. Students must also be aware of the strict ethical standards and responsibilities by which legal interpreters are bound. This course covers these fundamentals using a combined lecture and practicum format.
Medical Interpreting
Medical interpretation is the fastest-growing specialization within the field of multilingual professionalism. Students learn to balance the proper degree of professional reserve with the compassion and caring that are critical to the healing process. Through case studies, role-playing, and the review of medical procedures, the students prepare themselves to serve competently as bridges between medical personnel and patients from a variety of ethnic communities.
This course provides tools to develop and master the art and skills of medical interpreting and understand the role, responsibilities and boundaries of the interpreter, seen as an active team player in the triadic medical interview (provider-patient-interpreter). The course also presents the interpreter’s role as linguistic and cultural mediator in multidisciplinary settings and provides an introduction to anatomy, physiology, medical terminology, medical procedures and the role of various medical providers.
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Costs |
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Courses range from $800 to
$1,300. A Certificate is obtained after completion
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Editor notes |
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The interpreting courses offered by Boston
University comprise two of the most important fields
of the industry, Medical and Legal, being exposed to
the vocabulary of social service interpreting,
educational plans, advocacy and medical issues |
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http://professional.bu.edu/cpe/interpreter-translator-comm.asp
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Contact Information |
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1010 Commonwealth Avenue, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA
02215
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Harvard University - Extension School
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Program Description |
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Harvard University offers the following two extension courses of translation: Spanish: Students read texts from the Spanish language press, the social sciences, science, and the humanities. Opportunities are provided for students to read in their areas of interest and to translate a substantial document or story into English. We review and study further the Spanish grammar necessary for reading. Conducted in English. French: Students read French texts of moderate difficulty and translate them into English. Differences between French and English ways of written expression are pointed out and emphasis given to translations that read not as literally translated French but as English originals. Conducted in English. Prerequisite: a basic knowledge of French and English grammar. |
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Noncredit and
undergraduate credit $1,100. |
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In addition to a varied offer of courses on languages and literature, the Harvard University offers two courses on translation, Focusing on literary translation and emphasizing the importance of fluent translations.
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http://dceweb.harvard.edu/prod/sswckce.taf?function=search&wgrp=EXT&_UserReference=0A330526465661D2784134044F654A33D130
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Contact Information |
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Harvard Extension School 51 Brattle Street Cambridge, MA 02138-3722 USA Phone: +1-617-495-4024
E-mail: extension@dcemail.harvard.edu
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University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA - Translation Center |
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Program Description |
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For graduate students. Training in the translation of Chinese literature and the introduction to translation theory and practice.
The demand for advanced study in
translation and interpreting is growing. The trend
towards globalization is continuing to open up new
markets, providing multilingual job opportunities
for translation professionals in numerous fields.
Businesses and governments are increasingly looking
to hire professionals with cross-cultural
communication skills as well as experience in
translation and interpreting.
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Costs |
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Check with the university. |
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With an interesting proposition, the UMass Translation Center provides translation and interpreting services, as well as translation and interpreting courses, which allows them a rare approach in translation schools, which is not to lose focus on the professional aspects of translation theory and vice-versa. Furthermore, a good variety of courses is offered related both to technical and literary translations.
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http://www.umasstranslation.com/academics/
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The Translation Center
Tel: 413-545-2203
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