The Certificate in Translation program is designed to provide students with the fundamentals of translation. The program is the equivalent of one year of full-time university study and requires the completion of 30 credits. Courses are offered part-time during evenings. Non-credit preparatory courses must be completed by students who do not succeed in the Entrance Examination. The Comparative Stylistics course is designed to alert students to the uses of language and to the problems of translation; the translation courses provide practical experience in the actual translation of texts in a variety of fields. In the first stages of the program equal time is devoted to translation in the two languages of choice. In the final stage, students are divided according to the language of specialization they have chosen.
