Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Ethical and professional skills - Master the professional context of an interpretation.
• Respect the ethical conventions of the profession, particularly with regard to confidentiality, and accepting only those contracts that one is able to honour.
• Show good self-control including a professional degree of tact.
• Show their ability and willingness to work as part of a team.
• Negotiate the conditions under which an interpretation job will be undertaken with the organiser of the event and ensure accepted quality norms are met.
• Develop the ability to self-evaluate with a critical eye, in order to continually progress.
• Interpersonal and communication skills - Use and develop communication skills.
• Exercise their abilities to communicate and comprehend effectively.
• Capture the essence of a message in its original context and render it faithfully in another language.
• Be willing and ready to adapt to new and varied communication situations and environments; be flexible.
• Linguistic Skills - Apply linguistic knowledge to the practice of translation or interpretation.
• Master the French language at level C2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
• Master the foreign languages at level C2 in reading and listening, and level C1 in writing and speaking.
• Continuously assess and maintain that linguistic knowledge.
• Transmit a message expressed in another language, orally or in writing, all the while respecting the intention, the target audience, the linguistic register and the objectives of the original language and message.
• Cultural and Intercultural Competency - Utilise intercultural knowledge in order to understand, analyse, and contextualise in the practice of translation.
• Be familiar with the political, social and cultural environment of the working language and the chosen foreign languages, as well as a sustained effort to keep abreast of all new developments in those areas.
• Be able to recognise the socio-cultural components underlying an oral or written text.
• Analyse the assumptions, implicit or explicit, allusions, stereotypes and intertextuality of any oral or written document.
• Thematic Competency - Develop and apply thematic knowledge related to domains in which translation is practised.
• Identify what information and documentation is required.
• Cognitive Skills - Possess a solid theoretical grounding in translation and/or interpretation and be able to apply it to the professional practice thereof and actively pursue further independent development of it.
• Develop the necessary analytical and synthesis faculties to be able to understand and work on complex texts.
• Develop knowledge and skills autonomously, particularly in terms of researching new theoretical approaches and tools in the field, with the aim of improving professional skills.
• Ethical and professional skills - Master the professional context of an interpretation.
• Respect the ethical conventions of the profession, particularly with regard to confidentiality, and accepting only those contracts that one is able to honour.
• Show good self-control including a professional degree of tact.
• Show their ability and willingness to work as part of a team.
• Negotiate the conditions under which an interpretation job will be undertaken with the organiser of the event and ensure accepted quality norms are met.
• Develop the ability to self-evaluate with a critical eye, in order to continually progress.
• Interpersonal and communication skills - Use and develop communication skills.
• Exercise their abilities to communicate and comprehend effectively.
• Capture the essence of a message in its original context and render it faithfully in another language.
• Be willing and ready to adapt to new and varied communication situations and environments; be flexible.
• Professionnal skills specific to conference interpreting - Master the professional production of an interpretation.
• Interpret towards French, in consecutive or simultaneous mode, speeches from high-level specialists on a variety of topics.
• Interpret towards the foreign language speeches in French on general or current topics.

Learning Outcomes of UE

At the end of the first module of the master in interprenting, students will be able to:- understand the challenges of general translation and make the necessary research to solve those challenges;- translate general texts in written and with a high degree of precision, in a correct French and in the appropriate style;translate and/or summarize general texts orally, without any mistranslations and at the normal rhythm of speech delivery.At the end of this programme component, students will be able to :- implement the basic principles of terminological work;- select and to use terminological tools;- manage the terminology necessary to a translation project.

Content of UE

Consecutive and simultaneous interpretation of short and relatively non-specialized speeches. Memorization, note-taking and rendering in French. Exercises based on non-prepared speeches, freely-rendered written texts or recordings of original speeches. Introduction to interpretation theory, conference terminology and specificities of Belgian and international institutions.

Prior Experience

None.

Type of Assessment for UE in Q1

• Oral examination

Q1 UE Assessment Comments

N/A

Type of Assessment for UE in Q3

• Oral examination

Q3 UE Assessment Comments

N/A

Type of Resit Assessment for UE in Q1 (BAB1)

• Oral examination

Q1 UE Resit Assessment Comments (BAB1)

N/A