Postgraduate certificate in translation in Open university

This postgraduate certificate enables you to start developing your skills as a translator. You'll engage in authentic translation tasks to develop useful employability skills, explore different approaches to translation and develop an understanding of the links between theory and practice. With a focus on recent research, you'll develop an awareness of the wider cultural, ethical and professional contexts of translation.Engage in authentic translation tasks to develop useful employability skills.Choose from French, German, Spanish, Italian, Mandarin Chinese or Modern Standard Arabic in combination with English.Develop your professional skills with a combination of collaborative activities and peer-reviews.The Open University is recognised as a HE Language Partner of the Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL) and is a Corporate Member of the Institute of Translation & Interpreting (ITI). We are also members of the Association of Programmes in Translation and Interpreting Studies of the UK and Ireland (APTIS K).

A UK honours degree (preferably a 2:1 or above) or other recognised equivalent qualification

Community interpreters.Conference interpreters.Coordinating interpreters.Educational interpreters.Escort interpreters.Federal court interpreters.Foreign language interpreters and translators.Health or medical interpreters and translators.

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