School of Continuing Studies credit and non-credit programs, courses, and other academic information for 2019-20 are now available on McGill's eCalendar.
Programs, courses, and other academic information for the School of Continuing Studies has been updated to reflect new offerings for the 2018–19 academic year. Current and future students can see what's new on the eCalendar! Browse Continuing Studies' offerings in both English and French to find out more.
School of Continuing Studies credit and non-credit programs, courses, and other academic information for 2018-19 are now available on McGill's eCalendar.
Professionals and researchers from around the world will be coming together in April to reflect on the ideological nature of translation and the ways in which engaged translators have promoted a wide variety of conceptual agendas throughout history. Researchers and practicing translators will reflect on translations as artefacts of sociopolitical change.
Dr. James Archibald has been appointed to the ISO/TC 37 mirror committee on language and terminology in The Standards Council of Canada. The Standards Council of Canada is the Canadian arm of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the ISO/TC 37 has published internationally recognized standards on a variety of translation-related issues and technologies.
Read an interview with McGill School of Continuing Studies' former director of Translation Studies, James Archibald, in Métro. The flexibility of the program, along with the internship component and use of innovative software, was highlighted.
The article is available in French only. Click here to read the article.
One of the world’s 7,000 languages vanishes every other week, and half – including scores of indigenous North American languages -- might not survive the 21st century, experts say. To preserve as much linguistic diversity as possible in the face of this threat, McGill University scientists are proposing to borrow a leaf from conservation biology.
Make no mistake: Veronica Boggia is bilingual. But when it came to writing, “I felt any mistakes I made were glaringly obvious.”
When she enrolled in an online language program, “my boss and colleagues noticed right away. There’s no question that it’s helped my productivity.”
Read more on The Next Page, the School of Continuing Studies' online magazine.
The Department of Language, Mediation and Intercultural Communication at the University of Milan has launched a new peer-reviewed journal, Lingue, Culture, Mediazione/ Languages, Cultures, Mediation. The first issue was co-edited by James Archibald, director of Translation and Written Communication at McGill's School of Continuing Studies, and focuses on the definition of linguistic and cultural mediation.
Click here to view the inaugural issue.
The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at McGill University is offering a 2-year fellowship to an incoming master’s student to participate in the recently funded Digging into Data project, “Global Currents: Cultures of Literary Networks, 1050-1900,” directed by Prof. Andrew Piper.