Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 10:58
This course focuses on the intensive practice of consecutive and simultaneous interpreting. It provides students with the advanced skills, strategies and practical knowledge to perform interpreting tasks in a professional way and with confidence. It encourages students to analyse and reflect upon their own interpreting practice. Compared to the Introduction to Conference Interpreting course in 1HS, this course puts greater emphasis on detailed and nuanced renditions, the projection of the speaker’s intentions and the delivery of the target speech. The course will also put more emphasis on the preparation of more complex interpreting assignments. This course will run if there is a minimum of 3 students per language combination.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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One or more of these courses have a limited number of places. Priority access will be given to students for whom this course is compulsory. Please refer to the Frequently Asked Questions for more details on this process.
This course will:
Introduce the principles and practice of interpreting consecutively and simultaneously from one language bilaterally (from and into English) on a range of topics, and to develop students’ practice to an advanced level;
Develop the ability to construe meaning, intuition, and speed of reaction in order to ensure optimal interlinguistic mediation in the professional context of conference interpreting;
Instruct students in the principles and practice of note-taking for conference interpreting purposes;
Foster skills of public speaking at a high level.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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Speech of 750-850 words. 30 minutes per student. |
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Speech of 800-900 words. 30 minutes per student. |
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There are no assessments for this course.
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| Procedural | Understand | Take and use notes effectively and interpret confidently without notes, according to the requirements of the situation. |
| Procedural | Apply | Interpret, to a standard approaching professional level, in a wide variety of contexts including speeches, presentations, meetings and negotiations, company tours, official functions, escorting guests |
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