Translating and Interpreting for the Community

This course focuses on the concept of Community Translation and Interpreting, of which the purpose is to provide members of minority communities language access to public services offered both routinely and in a crisis scenario. This course will introduce functional translation theories as the theoretical framework with practical advice and discussion on both achievement of pragmatic equivalence and significance of self-reflection on students' development of individual translation/interpreting skills. This work will be supervised by a staff member from the relevant language programme or an external assessor if required.