NOTIS

Education
 

General

Lexicool Translating and Interpreting Courses
A searchable commercial directory of programs and courses in several countries.

United States

Acebo
Commercial translator and interpreter training material only.

Bellevue Community College
Bellevue, Washington. BCC offers a comprehensive evening certificate program in translation and interpreting in partnership with the Translation & Interpretation Institute. Weekend workshops in translation, localization, and interpreting are also available.

Boston University
Offers weekend classes in a certificate program for Legal, Medical, and Community Interpreting for Cantonese, Mandarin, Portuguese or Spanish. They also have an Interpreting Internship Program for graduates of the program.

California State University at Chico Localization Program
Localization and international e-business training in cutting edge industry developments and technologies. The Certification in Localization has two components: 46 hours of online instruction in form of videos, power points, lecture notes, and interactive quizzes, and 24 hours of face-to-face interaction and lab work at California State University located in Chico, CA.

Center for Interpretation and Translation Studies (CITS)
University of Hawaii at Manoa

Center for Translation Studies
University of Texas at Dallas

Cross Cultural Health Care Program
Seattle, Washington. CCHCP offers a 40-hour basic training course in medical interpreting entitled 'Bridging the Gap.' The course includes an extensive manual, a medical glossary, culture-specific materials, and a guide to medication. The Interpreter Training Coordinator can be reached at +1(206) 860-0329.

PDF Health Care Interpreter Training in the State of California (1473 KB)
A survey of medical interpreter training programs, including an analysis of trends and a compendium of training programs. Updated 03/07/2003.

new! The Institute for Health Professionals at Portland Community College
The Institute offers numerous medical-interpreting courses, including Spanish Medical Terminology, Healthcare Interpreting Practicum, and English Medical Terminology.

new! Institute for Intercultural Communication
The Institute has a large resource library on intercultural topics. Every summer it runs The Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication at Pacific University in Forest Grove

Kent State University
The Institute for Applied Linguistics offers a two-year Master of Arts degree in translation, focusing on French/German/Spanish to English translation, with some options for variation on individual projects.

Monterey Institute of International Studies
Monterey, California. MA Programs in translation and interpretation, conference interpretation, and translation. Also offers Certificate Programs.

New York University 
The NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies in New York City offers a Translation Certificate. Beginning in Spring 2001, the German-English Certificate Program will be offered online.

San Francisco State University 
The College of Extended Learning offers a Spanish/English Legal/Court Interpretation Certificate.

Seattle Central Community College
Seattle, WA. Courses offered on interpreter training for Sign Language.

Southern California School of Interpretation
Lectures in criminal proceedings and sight translations.

Translation and Interpretation Institute
Bellevue, Washington. A variety of practical courses is available in translation, interpretation, business ethics and practices, and technology for T&I. A comprehensive certificate program is offered in both translation and interpretation in several language pairs. 

Translation Research Group
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

Graduate Program in Bilingual Legal Interpreting
University of Charleston, South Carolina. In addition to a M.A. program in Spanish/English legal interpreting, the University's Bilingual Interpreting Program has added a graduate certificate option allowing students to attain additional skills in legal interpreting in an abbreviated time frame.

University of Arizona's National Center for Interpretation
A research and public service unit that works with all aspects of language service along their theoretical, practical, and pedagogical dimensions. Their offerings include the Agnese Haury Institute for Court Interpretation, an annual summer institute offering a three week intensive course designed to help beginning and intermediate level Spanish interpreters improve their skills. Contact them for more information.

University of Washington, Extension
Seattle, Washington. Offers a certificate program in localization. Non-credit courses are also available on topics that may be of interest to translators and interpreters. Course offerings vary from quarter to quarter.

Canada

Court and Health Care Interpreting Programs
Vancouver Community College in British Columbia offers four certificate programs in interpreting – Court Interpreting, Health Care and Community Services Interpreting, Community Interpreting (web-based) and Court Interpreting (distance education) –, in addition to professional development courses for translators and interpreters.

School of Interpretation and Translation
University of Ottawa

Central and South America

Escuela Profesional de Traducción e Interpretación
5a. Av. 16-72, zona 14 01014, Guatemala, Guatemala, goicolea@intelnet.net.gt 

Europe

Conférence internationale permanente d'instituts universitaires de traducteurs et interprètes (CIUTI)
A listing of languages offered at member institutions in Europe.

Institut für Übersetzer- und Dolmetscherausbildung
Graz, Austria

Institut für Übersetzer- und Dolmetscherausbildung
Institute of Translation and Interpretation at the University of Innsbruck, Austria

Institut supérieur de traducteurs et interprètes (ISTI)
Centre de recherche en terminologie, Brussels, Belgium

Ecole d'Interprètes Internationaux
L'Ecole d'Interprètes Internationaux fait partie de la Haute Ecole du Hainaut, tout en restant intégrée à l'Université de MONS-HAINAUT, Belge (Belgium).

Savonlinna School of Translation Studies
Finland

Department of Translation Studies
University of Tampere, Finland

Translation courses at the British Institute in Paris
University of London, Paris, France

Ecole Supérieure d'Interprètes et de Traducteurs (ESIT)
Université de Paris 3 (Sorbonne Nouvelle), Paris, France

Institut Supérieur d'Interprétation et de Traduction (ISIT)
This is a four-year theory-intensive program with an emphasis on financial terminology. Paris, France

Neuphilologische Fakultät (Modern Philology)
Institut für Übersetzen und Dolmetschen, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany

FASK-Germersheim
Universität Mainz, Germany

Studiengang Technikübersetzen
Fachhochschule Flensburg, Germany

Studiengang Übersetzen und Dolmetschen
Fachhochschule Köln, Germany

Diplomstudiengang Internationale Fachkommunikation
Universität Hildesheim, Germany

Fachbereich Fachkommunikation
Fachhochschule Magdeburg, Germany

School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies
Dublin City University, Ireland

Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori (SSLiMIT)
Bologna/Forlì, Italy

Online University Master’s Program in Technical and Scientific Translation
from: English, French, and German into: Italian
The Universities of Bari, Genoa, and Pisa (IT), in cooperation with ICoN (Consortium Italian Culture on the Net)

Traducción e Interpretación - UAX
Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio, Madrid, Spain

NEW! Instituto Español Murallas de Ávila
Small, commercial institute with an advanced Spanish course focused on translation. In Avila, Spain.

Instituto Universitario de Lenguas Modernas y Traductores
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

UAB Facultat de Traducció i d'Interpretació
Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona, Spain

Ecole de traduction et d'interprétation
Université de Genève, Switzerland

Department of Modern Languages
University of Bradford, UK

Department of Language Engineering
University of Science and Technology in Manchester, UK

Department of Linguistic and International Studies
University of Surrey, UK

MA/Diploma in Translating
Department of European Studies and Modern Language, University of Bath, UK

University of Leeds
School of Modern Languages, MA in Applied Translation Studies, Leeds, UK

Asia/Africa

NEW! École Supérieure Roi Fahd de Traduction
Route Du Charf, B.P. 104, 90000 Tanger, Morocco. 

University of South Africa
The Department of Linguistics at the University of South Africa in Pretoria offers distance learning courses in translation. There is no page with specific information on this program, but general information from the University should get you started. Pretoria, South Africa

Australia

Translation and Linguistics Courses
University of Western Sydney Macarthur, Australia

Deakin University
Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. Also attached to the unit at Deakin is a National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia (NLLIA) Centre for Research and Development of Interpreting and Translating (CRDIT).

University of Queensland
Master of Arts in Japanese Interpreting and Translation. Brisbane, Australia


Home Page | About NOTIS | Return to Resource Links

Copyright © 1996-2008 Northwest Translators and Interpreters Society. All rights reserved.
Last updated March 20, 2008
Privacy Statement