El objetivo del máster es ofrecer a los estudiantes la posibilidad de compaginar dos vertientes que están estrechamente relacionadas en los ámbitos jurídico y judicial: la traducción escrita y la interpretación oral para lograr una formación sólida que les permita ampliar sus conocimientos y destrezas y afrontar las demandas de un mercado cada vez más exigente. El objetivo principal del curso consiste en la formación de traductores especializados en las áreas principales de la traducción jurídica.Ofrecer una formación de este tipo corresponde a la demanda social y profesional. De la misma manera como una sociedad no puede prescindir del Derecho y en consecuencia de profesionales formados para su ejercicio, así una sociedad cada vez más trans, inter, y multinacional necesita de profesionales de la traducción jurídica en los diferentes ámbitos del Derecho. Al finalizar el máster, los estudiantes habrán alcanzado los objetivos generales y específicos además de Comparar las prácticas de traducción jurídica e interpretación judicial, relacionar conocimientos y ponerlos en práctica y Analizar de forma crítica la práctica de la traducción jurídica o Interpretación judicial.

La traducción y la interpretación son herramientas esenciales para asegurar el acceso igualitario de los ciudadanos extranjeros a la sanidad, la educación, los servicios sociales o la justicia. El curso proporciona motivos para una mayor capacitación en campos tales como Traducción e interpretación para servicios públicos e instituciones, Traducción jurídica y Derechos humanos. Sus objetivos son: Proporcionar los conocimientos teóricos  y las destrezas, habilidades  y herramientas necesarias   para   actuar   de   enlace   lingüístico   y   cultural   entre   el   personal   de   las instituciones administrativas, educativas, etc. y los usuarios que no hablan español.  Conocer   y   practicar   las   principales   técnicas   de este   tipo   de   interpretación (interpretación  bilateral,  consecutiva,  traducción a  la  vista,  terminología  específica, toma de notas, etc.) Las explicaciones básicas se dan en español, se espera que los estudiantes dominen el español en el nivel B2-C1 para seguir las explicaciones, tomar notas y hacer preguntas, así como proporcionar las respuestas para las actividades generales relacionadas con la capacitación del curso en español.

The Course gives an overview of recent EU projects on translation and interpreting. Among them are:

AVIDICUS 3: Assessment of Video-Mediated Interpreting in Criminal and Civil Justice - Assessing the Implementation (2013-2015), conducting a comprehensive assessment of the VC solutions and working out training materials in bilingual videoconferencing;

LIT Search (2013-2015), setting up a database of legal interpreters and translators on the e-Justice portal to link up the participating counties in procedural safeguarding;

JUSTISIGHNS (2013-2016), focusing on identifying competencies for sign language interpreting in legal settings and providing training for both qualified and qualifying signed language interpreters in this domain;

TraiLLD: Training in Languages of Lesser Diffusion (2013-2015), sharing the expertise in training legal interpreters in languages of lesser diffusion and testing a framework of best practices in training methodologies.

These and some other EU projects are of great practical value. They can heavily contribute to the programme of legal translation and interpreting in terms of materials and methodology.

The Course looks at practices and standards worked out by the EU Council's Translation Department to harmonise and ensure high quality of translations in the multilingual environment. Quality assurance rests on three broad areas: staff, methods and procedures, and tools. Each of those areas are investigated to work out best practices to produce texts and their translations of a suitable high standards. Computer-assisted tools (CAT) are a means of ensuring technological and phraseological consistency, inside a document as well as across families of related documents, all of which contribute to translation quality. The issues of  quality management as well as the role of quality controllers are also central. Among challenges in translating EU documents the Course focuses on technical and/or linguistic errors and their prevention. 

   The course introduces students to the interdisciplinary studies of language and law, a new branch of applied linguistics -Forensic Linguistics. It covers closely related aspects of legal language and law development and their interrelationship.  The course is intended to integrate theoretical frameworks of different fields of linguistics such as Speech Act theory, Cognitive Linguistics, Legal Semiotics, Discourse analysis to encourage a diverse range of research methodologies and to address various issues related to the role of language in legal setting .

The key objective of the course is to develop professional translation skills on the material of most common types of documents. The course is based on the theory of translation and contributes to general practices of translation within the legal domain.

Theoretical part of the course contains the legal background and definitions and outlines the structure and elements of a certain document along with the analysis of its distinguishing linguistic features. Most of this material is connected with the English legal system so that the students acquire a general knowledge about the document under study. This helps them in rendering a document into Russian. The next step is practicing translation of a similar Russian document into English.

Seminars suggest discussing variants of translation and address common errors and language misuse in terms of grammar/structure, syntax, lexis/phrases, legal context and legal culture.

This manual is intended for students of 1-2 courses of non-linguistic humanitarian specialties and Master's program. It contributes to the development of a communicative and, in a basic, translation competence of future specialists on the material of texts on problems of intercultural communication. The manual is developed on the basis of authentic texts.

Each section includes assignments for consolidation of linguistic material, development of communicative skills and skills to be abstracted on a foreign text.

The main purpose of the course is to introduce students to a wide range of computer-assisted tools that can be used in legal translation, as well as a number of translation-related IT topics from file management to information research and management. Special emphasis will be placed on terminology management.

The course content is designed to provide students with the basic theoretical knowledge, and practical skills, international and national panorama of the discipline. Special emphasis is laid on interdisciplinary environment that embraces aspects of Linguistics and Information Technology.

Throughout the course students will be trained to use technology to their advantage and will learn what types of tech­nology will serve them best in different circumstances. The course aims to explain the main concepts and general issues associated with the technology. Students will learn funda­mental concepts, and tutorials will allow them to get hands-on experience using the specific products that are currently available.

The main purpose is to introduce students to the Legal English peculiarities, discourse conventions, communicative strategies and tactics, legal branches terminology, legal documents style and grammar specificity.

The course content is designed to provide students with the basic knowledge, international and national panorama of the discipline. Special emphasis is laid on interdisciplinary environment  that embraces cognitive, cultural, pragmatic, linguistics  aspects  of legal  English within a broad extra linguistic context  related to a particular pair of national legal systems and cultures.

The course makes students aware of  legal English terminology specificity, the nature, principles, procedures, conventions  of Legal  English genres, helps students realize the implications of the similarities and differences between legal cultures embedded in the language.

The main purpose of the course is to introduce students to the pedagogy and psychology of higher education.

The course content is designed to provide students with the basic theoretical knowledge, international and national panorama of the discipline. Special emphasis is laid on interdisciplinary environment that embraces cognitive, cultural, pragmatic aspects of pedagogical and psychological research and practice within a broad socio cultural context related to a particular pedagogical and psychological systems and cultures.

Public Service Interpreting or Community Interpreting is a fast growing field of professional activity around the world. Intensive global movement of populations has resulted in growing number of multicultural and multilingual societies in which ethnic minorities are facing with numerous, including linguistic, barriers. The increased interaction between persons with limited language proficiency and public service institutions has trigged the professionalization of Public Service Interpreting. The professionalization of this field is reflected in emergence of educational programs run by mostly European and North American universities.

The main purpose of the course is to introduce students to the interdisciplinary context of theoretical and    empirical research within the framework of  Translation  Studies.

 The course content is designed to provide students with the basic theoretical knowledge, international and national panorama of the discipline. Special emphasis is laid on interdisciplinary environment  that embraces cognitive, cultural, pragmatic, linguistics  aspects  of translation research and practice within a broad extra linguistic context  related to a particular pair of national cultures.

 The course acquaints students with the nature, principles and procedures, classification and levels of translation analysis, its stages, and angles.

 The course helps students realize the implications of the similarities and differences between  translation techniques that can be applied as far as different registers are concerned.