Schools listed below are offering the courses in the 2024-2025 school year and are not a guarantee of future offerings.
This is the first course the Translation and Interpretation Pathway, which prepares students to transition into post-secondary training programs to become translator and interpreters. Translation and Interpretation I is an intense revision of advanced Spanish grammar in the context of translation from English into Spanish as well as Spanish into English. Students will learn the fundamental concepts of translation theory and will put them into practice by analyzing and translating literature, advertisement, business, healthcare, legal and educational documents. The course will present opportunities to critically discuss and reflect on the specific tasks translators perform while analyzing fundamental differences in writing style and grammar structures in Spanish and English. Students also acquire knowledge of issues related to the translation profession such as ethics, decision-making, and professional standards.
This is the first course the Translation and Interpretation Pathway, which prepares students to transition into post-secondary training programs to become translator and interpreters. Translation and Interpretation I is an intense revision of advanced Spanish grammar in the context of translation from English into Spanish as well as Spanish into English. Students will learn the fundamental concepts of translation theory and will put them into practice by analyzing and translating literature, advertisement, business, healthcare, legal and educational documents. The course will present opportunities to critically discuss and reflect on the specific tasks translators perform while analyzing fundamental differences in writing style and grammar structures in Spanish and English. Students also acquire knowledge of issues related to the translation profession such as ethics, decision-making, and professional standards.
Translation and Interpretation 2 is the second and capstone course in the Translation and Interpretation CTE Pathway. This course involves the use of Spanish grammar in the context of interpretation from English into Spanish. Students will learn the fundamental concepts of interpretation theory and will put them into practice by analyzing and interpreting literature, advertisement, business, healthcare, legal and educational situations. The course will present opportunities to critically discuss and reflect on the specific tasks interpreters perform while analyzing fundamental differences in style, cultural norms and grammar structures in Spanish and English. Each unit will explore specific problems and techniques of some aspect of interpretation, including but not limited to: Grammatical problems, Lexical (word) problems, Miscellaneous problems in Spanish-English interpreting. There will be a continued emphasis on the ethnics and cultural proficiency skills in high-quality translation and interpretation.
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