APG5606 · Specialised legal interpreting

Overview

This unit specialises in an important area of interpreting practice: police, legal and courtroom settings. Content knowledge and specialist language are acquired that relate to the contexts of this field. You will also acquire knowledge of the discourse and communication features of the interlocutors that legal interpreters work with: police officers, lawyers, judicial officers, prison and parole officers as well as people without specialist knowledge of the legal system. This unit builds on skills acquired in APG5049 and APG5885. You are required to have proficiency in dialogue interpreting, sight translation, bi-directional consecutive interpreting of speeches and some experience in simultaneous interpreting. This unit focuses on dialogue interpreting at a high level, consecutive interpreting (both into and from English), and simultaneous interpreting (both into and from English). Interactional approaches to interpreting are presented as are theoretical concepts relating to legal interpreting as an emerging research field.

Areas of study: Interpreting and Translation

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Apply interpreting skills in the field of legal interpreting;
2. Bi-directionally interpret dialogues and passages that are delivered in professional settings, and that are of moderate to high levels of difficulty;
3. Provide LOTE-English / English-LOTE consecutive interpreting in the specialised area of legal interpreting;
4. Provide LOTE-English / English-LOTE simultaneous interpreting in the specialised area of legal interpreting, including the use of chuchotage (whispered interpreting);
5. Identify key areas of research within the field of legal interpreting.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.