ABSTRACT

The undergraduate certificate in translation studies at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI), is housed in the Department of World Languages and Cultures. It is offered primarily in French, German, Spanish, and American Sign Language, although students can arrange independently to work with other languages taught in the department such as Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese. Once admitted, students are required to take nine courses distributed over three categories: core, translation, and a final project. The core includes advanced professional writing, advanced grammar or linguistics in the source language, and an upper-level course in the source culture. The courses in translation include an introduction to translation studies and interpreting, two translation workshops, an introduction to computers and translation, and a course in terminology that is not only specific to a source language but to a field. The course in business terminology requires students to complete two participatory projects.