Electives

TRNSLTN 530 Business and Professional Aspects of Translation

3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Practical knowledge needed to succeed as free-lance or in-house translators; marketing, advertising, negotiating as well as legal and tax issues.

TRNSLTN 700 Consecutive Interpreting

3 cr. Graduate.
Professional protocols and practices of different modalities of consecutive interpreting; exercises for improvement of split-attention, short-term memory and information organization; ethical principles of interpreting profession.

TRNSLTN 711 Ethics in Translation and Interpreting

3 cr. Graduate.
Students explore frameworks for language-services provision, roles and responsibilities of, and ethical principles for T&I professionals.

TRNSLTN 727 Project Management in Translation

3 cr. Graduate.
Principles of project management and quality assurance in the global language services industry; standards and techniques of effective project management for a variety of language service projects.

TRNSLTN 728 Editing for Translation

3 cr. Graduate.
Translation industry standards and best practices for quality assurance. Students edit texts in English, applying style guides and implementing effective research techniques.