2021-22 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Dec 26, 2024  
2021-22 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

SPA 371 - Medical Interpreting I: Practice & Translation

(4 credits, alternate years, consult department)
An advanced level course introducing the students to the complex field of medical interpreting. The first of four courses, students will become familiar with the three interpreting modes - sight-translation, consecutive interpreting and simultaneous interpreting - and will then focus on sight-translation; in addition, students will also learn the methods, techniques and problems involved in written medical translation. Students will work from English into Spanish and Spanish into English. All source materials will be medical in nature.

Prerequisite: Acceptance into the T&I program as demonstrated by a high level of fluency in both English and Spanish.