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Apr 19, 2024
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STSI 102 - Conference Procedures for interpreters
This course provides intensive training on interpreting skills and essential procedures in conferences including listening, processing, storage, retrieval and other interpreting competencies.

Part of the: Professional Diploma in Simultaneous Interpreting

Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this course, learners will be able to
1. respond to decontextualized words, isolated phrases and sentences by producing their equivalents;
2. respond to terminology in various fields by producing equivalents;
3. overcome mike and audience fright;
4. identify conference procedures;
5. respond to conference procedures;
6. produce comprehensible and accurate interpreting of conference speech for up to 2 minutes;
7. have good memory retention skills; remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures etc. ;
8. have acceptable note-taking skills; take notes during consecutive interpretation assignments to ensure accuracy of the information given;
9. handle stress, breathing and public speaking fright;
10. communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand; and;
11. have a clear voice and easily comprehensible in both source and target languages;

Admission Requirements for the above certificate(s):
• Completion of the Foundation Certificate in Translation and Interpreting.
• Applicants must be university graduates (could be waived on a case-by-case basis).
• Applicant must pass the Oral Standardized English Proficiency Test (OSEPT) and score course SCMM B2 1 or pass course SCMM B1 3.
• Applicants who score SCMM B1 2 in Oral SEPT or pass SCMM B1 1, must take English for Translators SLEI 101 60 hours.

Term duration: 12 Weeks
Schedule: 1 Session/week - 2.5 Hrs/Session
Or
Term duration: 6 Weeks
Schedule: 2 Sessions/week - 2.5 Hrs/Session

Assessments and Attendance:
Learners are assessed throughout the term by tests, quizzes, assignments, projects or other means of evaluation. End-of-term achievement tests measure learners’ overall
3.000 Continuing Education Units
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Continuing Education
Schedule Types: Lab

SCE Language Department

Course Attributes:
SCE-TRAN-REG

Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Programs:     
      Simultaneous Interpreting
Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels:     
      Continuing Education
Must be enrolled in one of the following Colleges:     
      School of Continuing Education
Must be enrolled in one of the following Majors:     
      SCE Translation
Must be enrolled in one of the following Departments:     
      SCE Language

Prerequisites:
(Continuing Education level STTI 101 Minimum Grade of D and Continuing Education level STTI 102 Minimum Grade of D and Continuing Education level STTI 103 Minimum Grade of D and Continuing Education level STTI 104 Minimum Grade of D) and ( SCE Oral Standrdzd Engl Test 031 or SCE Test-Online Oral Placement 031 or SCE Day Stand Engl Oral Test 031 or Continuing Education level SCMM B13 Minimum Grade of D)

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