ABOUT MATI
The Master of Arts in Translation and Interpreting (MATI) is a new professional degree program that prepares students for careers in translation and interpreting in local government, corporations, private enterprises, non-governmental organizations and other institutions in the private and public sectors.
By offering a combination of practical and theoretical courses, the program provides a clear career path for bilingual students, training them to perform community, legal, medical and conference interpreting as well as written translation in various spheres of governmental and nongovernmental work.
The program combines rigorous theoretical grounding and hands on linguistic and professional training with instruction in computer-assisted technologies, software localization and other transferrable skills. This program is offered in the Chinese, Russian and Spanish language tracks with plans for more languages tracks in the future.