ITD (Interpreting and Translation Diploma Program) is a unique and challenging 8 week program. The course is divided into two main components; the first is for translation and interpretation, the other is for speaking and pronunciation. The class is designed to take your English to the next level by improving your vocabulary and strengthening your grammar. Through this program, you will learn how to analyze complex sentences that you come across on a daily basis in various texts such as news articles, magazines, and radio programmes etc. Using real world material introduces students to a much broader range of vocabulary and more challenging, yet practical sentence structures. To maintain balance, students will have the opportunity to work extensively on their speaking and pronunciation.

The program is delivered by both Korean and Canadian instructors.

Tests

1) Vocabulary Test:

Every Monday morning, you will take a vocabulary test based on the words you learned the week before. To help you study for the test, the list of vocabulary will be given to you beforehand. The test is composed of two types of questions; one is to complete each sentence with a proper word and translate it, the other is to make a sentence using a given word.

2) TT Test (Translation Tips Test):

Every Wednesday morning you will take a test based on the translation tips you learned the week before. ‘Translation tips are taught every Thursday morning and are based on certain words or grammar points that are mentioned during the class. On the test, you must translate sentences, either English to Korean or Korean to English.

3) Weekly Test:

This test is based entirely on the articles or the example sentences that you translated during the week. To pass the test, you must get at least 60%.

4) Final Test:

Every forth week, you will take a final test. The final test is cumulative, which means it will include everything we learned over the month. Please do not cram right before the test. I strongly recommend that you set aside time to review every day.

Assignments

1) Weekly assignments:

Presentation: you and your partner –one person speaks in English, the other in Korean, taking turns - must prepare a 15 minute presentation connected to the topic of the week.

You choose your own material by Thursday of the first week and translate it for a month. The project must be submitted by Tuesday of the fourth week. The printed material must be at least 1 page long (not double spaced), and the video/audio clip must be at least 3 minutes long.