Admission and Unit Information - Graduate Diploma in Translation

This is a core unit for students in postgraduate coursework programs in Interpreting and Translation. It introduces students to the theory and practice of Translation. Lectures are held in English for students of all languages. The tutorials are language specific in Arabic, Japanese, Mandarin and Spanish.

This unit is aimed at providing students with the opportunity to make useful observations about practical aspects of the Interpreting and/or Translation professions and related fields (such as the Legal System), as well as with supervised practice in the workplace. Students will complete the practical work relevant to their field of specialisation, i.e., Interpreting or Translation or Interpreting and Translation.

This is a compulsory unit in all the postgraduate NAATI approved awards. It aims to provide practice and constructive feedback to students preparing for the accreditation examinations. A pass in the unit in at least one of the following options: Interpreting, Translation into English, or Translation from English with 70% will make students eligible for NAATI accreditation on completion of the rest of the requirements of the course.

This is a core unit for students in postgraduate coursework programs in Interpreting and Translation. It introduces students to the theory and practice of Translation. Lectures are held in English for students of all languages. The tutorials are language specific in Arabic, Japanese, Mandarin and Spanish.

This unit is aimed at providing students with the opportunity to make useful observations about practical aspects of the Interpreting and/or Translation professions and related fields (such as the Legal System), as well as with supervised practice in the workplace. Students will complete the practical work relevant to their field of specialisation, i.e., Interpreting or Translation or Interpreting and Translation.

This is a compulsory unit in all the postgraduate NAATI approved awards. It aims to provide practice and constructive feedback to students preparing for the accreditation examinations. A pass in the unit in at least one of the following options: Interpreting, Translation into English, or Translation from English with 70% will make students eligible for NAATI accreditation on completion of the rest of the requirements of the course.

This unit aims to develop skills in translation particularly into English in a number of specialised fields: institutional information; documents; medical and legal information; special event literature and advertising and material relevant to special groups (e.g., temporary visitors to sporting events and trade exhibitions). The aim of the unit is for students to develop skills in producing target texts in styles appropriate to specific groups and communities, and to the content and function of the source text. The unit also aims to develop skills in researching and using appropriate specialist terminology, editing and revising, and producing camera-ready documents. On the basis of these skills, the unit is to further develop students' ability to reflect upon translation in terms of strategies and appropriateness in relation to the target audience as well as make critical written and oral assessment of relevant translations. The unit will be available, depending on sufficient demand, for Arabic, Japanese, Mandarin and Spanish.

This unit aims to develop in students an appreciation of different literary genres in English and in their other language (LOTE) with an emphasis on stylistic and cultural issues to provide a basis for literary translation. The unit will cover literary translation theory and introduce relevant strategies to be applied in practice. The class will be non-language specific, but students will be expected to work from and into their language other than English.

This unit aims to equip students with the theoretical and practical knowledge needed to effectively apply information and communication technologies to translation and other language related tasks. It focuses on translation memory and terminology management systems, and on the workflow involved in the handling of multilingual content. Emphasis is also put on uses of the Internet as a resource tool, and to the principles of controlled language for text to be processed by machine translation (MT). Tutorials will be conducted in a computer lab where students will familiarize themselves with leading computer-assisted translation (CAT) software applications.

This unit explores the functional, discursive, rhetorical, syntactic, semantic and lexical features of texts in the following specialised fields: tourism, news media, legal texts, technical & scientific materials. Knowledge of the functions and textual features of specialised texts will provide a basis for translating these specialised texts from and into English. Students will analyse the texts in both languages, and discuss ways in which the texts are to be translated. The unit will be available, depending on sufficient demand, for Arabic, Japanese, Mandarin and Spanish.

This unit aims to develop in students an understanding of the intricacies of the language of the law when used in written documents and mainly in the context of the courtroom. It will provide students with a historical overview of the development of Law English, its aims and purposes and its current uses. Special emphasis will be placed on the implications of legal language on legal translations and court interpreting, but the unit is suitable for monolingual students interested in the language of the law.

This unit aims to introduce students to the framework of audiovisual translation in the form of subtitling for films, documentaries and other screen programs and captioning for hearing impaired viewers. The content of the unit will cover the principles, constraints, guiding rules, translation strategies that specifically govern subtitling and captioning. It will also introduce students to related translation theories and the application in practice. The class will be non-language specific, but students will be expected to work from and into their language other than English.