Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Learning Outcomes of UE

- knowledge of general frameworks,
- elementary knowledge of the scientific approach
- knowledge of the main tools (dictionaries, encyclopedias, bibliographies, monographs and articles, online resources).
- carry out personal research on specific subjects in this field, and make a presentation of limited dimensions on an aspect of the history of the Arab-Muslim world.

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

1) A historical curve indicates the different stages of the historical evolution of the southern shore of the Mediterranean. An analysis of these stages and their influence on each other is made as part of the course.
Cultural differentiation is central to the course.

2) a historical chronology which extends over more than fourteen centuries and which covers all the territories witnessing the exceptional human, political, spiritual, cultural and scientific history of the Arab-Muslim civilization.

Prior Experience

Not applicable