Duration

1 year

Starting Date

August

Tuition Fee

$ 17,982 per full (On campus)
$ 19,300 per full (Online)

Location

Kent, United States/Online

About the program

The Translation major comprises the following concentrations:

  • Arabic
  • French
  • German
  • Japanese
  • Russian
  • Spanish

Learning Outcomes

Graduates of this Translation program from Kent State University will be able to:

  • Translate authentic, industry-relevant content, both general and domain-specific, using appropriate tools and approaches
  • Define and describe the roles and responsibilities of various language industry stakeholders and various forms of language service provision, and demonstrate an understanding of the basics of entrepreneurship and translation as a business
  • Engage in effective research and information retrieval for a variety of language industry-relevant tasks
  • Utilize a range of computer-assisted technologies, including machine translation, for language industry-relevant tasks and demonstrate an understanding of the place, benefits and limitations of those technologies in a given project scenario
  • Demonstrate an understanding of professional and ethical considerations in various project scenarios
  • Successfully communicate and mediate communication across languages and cultures in multilingual, multicultural contexts
  • Apply theory to inform and justify their decision-making
  • Critically reflect on their work and that of others

Courses included:

  • Graduate Research and Writing in Translation Studies
  • Documents in Multilingual Contexts
  • Theory of Translation and Interpreting
  • Terminology and Computer Applications in Translation
  • Software Localization
  • Practice of Arabic Translation
  • Literary and Cultural Translation
  • Commercial, Legal and Diplomatic Translation
  • Scientific, Technical and Medical Translation

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