Spanish Translation and Interpreting I

Catalog description

This course provides students with the foundational principles and basic skills necessary to begin translating texts and interpreting the spoken word using the English/Spanish language pairing. The course seeks to expose students to the entire process of preparation, translation and diagnosis. Practically, students will translate various kinds of documents and interpret spoken speech related to topics such as business, law, medicine, and technology. Students will learn strategies to assist in thinking cross-culturally with the aim of articulating and refining those strategies to deal with linguistic ambiguities. This course is taught in a classroom and lab. The time spent in the lab will be used to introduce students to the technological