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The Master of Arts in Translation and Interpreting (MATI) offers a wide variety of courses in the theory and principles of translation and interpreting, translation technologies and language-specific skill-based courses in Chinese, Russian and Spanish paired with English. (The program may serve additional languages on a case-by-case basis. For more information, please contact the program director at jt3361@hunter.cuny.edu.)

  • Required Courses
  • Elective Courses

See Course Catalog for a List of All Courses

Required Courses

Non-Language Specific Core Courses
Title Course Number
Translation Theory TRN 75100
Computer Assisted Translation TRN 75900
Principles of Interpreting Practice TRN 76900
Core Translation Practice Courses with Language Component

Students must take a minimum of two in this group but may take all three, in which case the third course will count as an elective.

Title Course Number
Medical Translation TRN 75500
Legal and Business Translation TRN 75600
Professional Translators Workshop TRN 75200

Language-Specific Elective Courses

Students must take a minimum of three, or a maximum of 5, courses from this group.

Chinese
Title Course Number
Market Strategies and Critical Perspectives in Chinese-English Translation  TRNC 75100
Chinese-English Simultaneous Interpreting TRNC 76200
Chinese-English Editing and Revising in Translation TRNC 75400
Chinese-English Translation in Commercial Affairs  TRNC 75600
Chinese-English Sight Translation and Consecutive Interpreting TRNC 76100
Chinese-English Medical Interpreting TRNC 75600

Students without a background in translation studies or deemed below the required proficiency level for Chinese will take one of the following courses:

Title Course Number
Topics in Advanced Conversation ​ CHIN 70500
Topics in Advanced Writing CHIN 70600
Topics in Advanced Reading CHIN 70700
Topics in Chinese Culture and Society  CHIN 70800
Russian: Special Topics in Language
Title Course Number
Advanced Comparative Russian-English Grammar and Stylistics for Translators TRNR 75200
Russian to English Translation TRNR 75300
English to Russian Translation TRNR 75400
English and Russian Consecutive Bilingual Interpreting TRNR 76100
Russian and English Simultaneous Bidirectional Interpreting TRNR 76200
Literary Translation (Russian to English) TBA
Spanish
Title Course Number
Comparative English and Spanish Grammar & Stylistics for Translators* TRNS 75200
Spanish-English Consecutive Interpretation & Sight Translation  TRNS 76100
Spanish to English Translation TRNS 75300
English to Spanish Translation TRNS 75400
Simultaneous Interpretation TRNS 76200
Spanish-English Medical Interpreting TRNS 75600
Interdisciplinary or Independent Study
Title Course Number
English Linguistics ENG 60700
Rhetoric and Composition ENG 61500
The Nature of Written Language ENG 78550
Fundamentals of Health Policy and Management PH 75600
Healthcare Systems and Policy NURS 70400
Community Organizing and Development for Health COMHE 75200
Demographic Issues in Planning and Development URBG 70300
Social Welfare Policy and Services SSW 70150
Immigrants and Refugees SSW 70219
Literary Translation (Independent study)
Research and Methods (Independent study)
Translating New York: Émigré Literature in Translation  (Independent study)
Translation and Interpreting Internship  (by department permission)

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