Community Interpreting

The Certificate Program for Community Interpreters is for multilingual professionals who are able to speak, read, and write English and Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, or Vietnamese fluently.

Community interpreting is a broad and flexible field, encompassing work in education, social services, industry, public relations, and local government issues and affairs.  All students in the program take the Community Interpreting course.

Students will be exposed to the requirements and vocabulary of social service interpreting, educational plans, advocacy issues, and the proper interpreter ethic to use when interfacing between government representatives and individuals and groups in a variety of settings. Community interpreters facilitate access to legal, educational, medical and social services. They may work for state agencies, municipal agencies, neighborhood clinics, attorneys, investigators, union representatives, advertising firms, doctors, city mayors, news media or police departments. Often they develop private clients within the language community they serve.

This certificate program consists of the following sequence of courses:

Core Courses (Chinese)
Code	Course Title	Tuition
INT101M	Introduction to Communication and Written Translation (Chinese)	$1,300
INT102M	Interpreting I (Chinese)	$825
INT106M	Community/Public Service Interpreting (Chinese)	$825
INT103M	Interpreting II (Chinese)	$825
INT400	Interpreter Internship	$800

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