University Course
Community Interpreting
The Community Interpreting university course is aimed at bilingual or multilingual people who wish to train and develop their skills, techniques and methods as community interpreters and want to use and apply them in their work with public authorities, public institutions and organisations.
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Info
Degree
Continuing Education Programme Certificate
Duration/ECTS-Credits
1 Semester / 5 ECTS-Credits
Start
05.04.2025
Preliminary discussion: 07.03.2025
subject to approval by the Senate
Cost
410 EUR (excl. ÖH-Contribution)
Language
German
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Qualification profile
- General basic knowledge of interpreting
- Knowledge of interpreting modes, techniques and strategies
- Information on preparation and follow-up for an interpreting assignment (research skills)
- Knowledge of the role of a community interpreter (role awareness, distancing, dealing with conflicts, compensation strategies)
- Awareness of one’s own limits and possibilities
- Basic knowledge of structures and processes in different fields of operation
- Knowledge of framework conditions of interpreting missions
Target group
Persons
- …who are bilingual or multilingual
- …who already work as community interpreters or want to work as community interpreters without subject-specific training (e.g. hospitals, police, public authorities, child welfare services, Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum (BFA), NGOs etc.)
- number of participants: 20 persons
Requirements
- Knowledge of the German language (B1)
- Knowledge of at least another language relevant to community interpreting (CI) (first language or at least level B2 acc. to the European Framework of Reference)
Contact
Samrawit Araya
Division for continuing education
Karl-Schönherr-Str. 3
6020 Innsbruck
Mag. Mag. Maria Helene Oberhofer
Department of Translation Studies
Mag. Mag. Katharina Redl
Department of Translation Studies
Dates (Summer semester 2025)
Preliminary discussion: 07.03.2025, 17:30 Uhr
05.04.2025, 09:00 - 16:00 Uhr
06.04.2025, 09:00 - 16:00 Uhr
25.04.2025, 09:00 - 16:00 Uhr
26.04.2025, 09:00 - 16:00 Uhr
10.05.2025, 09:00 - 16:00 Uhr
11.05.2025, 09:00 - 16:00 Uhr
16.05.2025: Final exams
17.05.2025: Final exams
The exact examination dates will be agreed on during the course.
Location
tba
Methodology
- keynote speeches, partly by external speakers
- individual, partner and group exercises
- interpreting simulations in different fields of operation acc. to Şebnem Bahadır
- exchange of experiences
Registration
General Information for the Registration for Continuing Education Programmes.
The decision on the admission of applicants is made by the scientific management of the university programme. Persons who have been admitted to the continuing education programme and have paid the course fee will be admitted to the University of Innsbruck as non-degree students (“ao. Studierende”) by the Rectorate.
Enrolment is carried out independently by the applicants at the Admission Department.
Graduates of the university course Community Interpreting have the possibility to be registered on the list of lay interpreters in Tyrol.
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