You'll gain essential skills in interpreting, analysis, active listening and note-taking, then build on this foundation by practising specialised liaison and simultaneous interpreting in our interpreting facilities. You'll also develop an awareness of the markets and environments in which interpreters work including international business as well as an understanding of legal and medical interpreting. You can also choose from optional modules informed by the leading research of our staff such as genre analysis, corpus linguistics, computer-assisted translation and machine translation.
In your first semester you'll begin to develop interpreting skills and work on specialised translation in your chosen languages. You may continue with translation in the following semester, while you'll build on your interpreting skills by practising simultaneous and liaison.
In your interpreting modules (including business interpreting and public service interpreting), you will be trained to interpret both ways between one active language (currently Chinese, French, Portuguese) and English. We don't offer training in any combination of languages that doesn't include your first language.