Professional Track

The Professional Track is designed for those interested in careers in the language-services industry, and can be completed in French, German, Russian or Spanish to English.

Professional Translation Track

The Professional track consists of 30 credits at the graduate level.

Required Core Seminars6
TRNSLTN 709
Seminar in Literary and Cultural Translation
TRNSLTN 820
Translation Theory
Required Non-Language specific courses9
TRNSLTN 710
Comparative Systems for Translation
TRNSLTN 726
Computer-Assisted Translation
TRNSLTN 730
Internship in Translation/Interpreting
Required Language-specific courses (two courses in same language pair)6
TRNSLTN 704
TRNSLTN 714
Introduction to Translation: Arabic to English
and Advanced Translation: Arabic to English
TRNSLTN 706
TRNSLTN 716
Introduction to Translation: French to English
and Seminar in Advanced Translation: French to English
TRNSLTN 708
TRNSLTN 718
Introduction to Translation: German to English
and Seminar in Advanced German Translation
TRNSLTN 719
TRNSLTN 729
Introduction to Translation: Russian to English
and Seminar in Advanced Translation: Russian to English
TRNSLTN 707
TRNSLTN 717
Introduction to Translation: Spanish to English
and Seminar in Advanced Translation: Spanish to English
Electives 9
TRNSLTN 530
Business and Professional Aspects of Translation
TRNSLTN 700
Consecutive Interpreting
TRNSLTN 720
Topics in Translation:
TRNSLTN 711
Ethics in Translation and Interpreting
TRNSLTN 727
Project Management in Translation
TRNSLTN 728
Editing for Translation
ENGLISH 708
Advanced Professional Writing
ENGLISH 709
Rhetoric, Writing, and Information Technology
INFOST 511
Organization of Information
INFOST 571
Information Access and Retrieval
Or other approved elective
Total Credits30