2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Programme Catalogue

PGDip in Conference Interpreting

Total credits: 120

Entry requirements:

Entry Requirements are available on the Course Search entry

School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:

School of Languages, Cultures and Societies

Examination board through which the programme will be considered:

Programme specification:

This programme will provide linguists, from the UK and abroad, who meet the entry requirements of the programme, with the opportunity to develop the skills of professional interpreting and translating and consolidate these skills by acquiring familiarity with a wide range of issues in the field of international affairs, politics, international business and science and technology.

Such training will enable graduates to apply the skills gained at the highest level in major international, governmental and non-governmental organisations as well as in commerce, diplomacy, industry and the academic world.

Intensive ‘hands-on’ teaching of interpreting is geared to international practice and includes a high level of participation of practicing professional conference interpreters.

Interpreting classes take place in state-of-the-art interpreting suites housed within the Language Centre, and simulated conferences in this suite comprise a major part of the training offered to students, enabling them to experience an environment as close as possible to that which they will be working in the future.

Our interpreting programmes are recognised by the International Association of Conference Interpreters (AIIC) and enjoy close ties with the UN (Geneva, Vienna) as well as the EU. We are regulated by a Memorandum of Understanding between the University of Leeds and the Directorate General for Interpretation and Conferences of the European Parliament in recognition of the excellence in the training of conference interpreters.

Key features:
- Research-led and specialised Conference Interpreting training
- Intensive ‘hands-on’ teaching of interpreting geared to domestic and international practices
- Market-oriented training with high level of participation of practicing professional interpreters and translators
- Practice in both consecutive and simultaneous interpreting
- Training in real life scenarios and mock conferences
- Practice in state of the art interpreting conference suites, translation labs and language lab
- Opportunity to take part in a study visit to the European Parliament / European Commission in Brussels or to the UN (Vienna or Geneva or IMO). The aim of the visits is to familiarize trainee interpreters with the work of professional conference interpreters and let them try their simultaneous skills in the booths.
- Close contact with various industry partners through the “CTS Professionalisation Talks” series

Year1 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Students applying to take this programme are required to decide (at the application stage) between two pathways:
- the ACC pathway - in which students work from two foreign languages into English; and
- the AB pathway - in which students work bidirectionally between one foreign language and English

Compulsory modules:

ALL STUDENTS: Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules

Optional modules:

AB Pathway
In addition, candidates taking the AB Pathway will also be required to take the following Compulsory modules:

Candidates doing the ACC Pathway will be required to take 30 credits of the following Consecutive Interpreting modules.

Candidates doing the AB Pathway will be required to take 15 credits of the following Consecutive Interpreting modules.

Candidates doing both Pathways will be required to take 15 credits of the following Advanced Consecutive Interpreting modules.

Candidates doing the ACC Pathway will be required to take 30 credits of the following Simultaneous Interpreting modules.

Candidates doing the AB Pathway will be required to take 15 credits of the following Simultaneous Interpreting modules.

Candidates doing both pathways will be required to take 30 credits from the following optional modules:

Basket one: Translation in practice

Basket 2: Skills for translators and interpreters

Basket 3 (ACC pathway only). Further advanced consecutive interpreting:

Last updated: 29/04/2024 16:08:15

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