EPTI Weekly Schedule
EPTI students spend each morning honing their English skills and attend afternoon workshops with faculty from the Translation, Interpretation, and Localization Management program. Students gain additional English practice through content-related field trips, debates, panel discussions, and guest lectures which vary from week to week.
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Writing Skills |
Oral Skills |
Panel Discussion |
| Cultural Content & Applied Skills |
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Cultural Content & Applied Skills |
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Debate Preparation | |
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Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
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Pronunciation Workshop |
T & I Workshop |
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This course will comprise three themes identified as key knowledge areas for the T&I program: Business and Economics, Politics and Law, and Science. Within these three broad themes, daily lessons will include focus on specific topics with a goal of familiarizing you with the vocabulary and background knowledge needed to comprehend and communicate in written and oral discourse. In addition to the above content focus, this course will help you develop your comprehension and production of written English with the aim to refine the language skills that are necessary for effective translation. In this class you will also encounter various types of spoken English. Paraphrasing and summarizing materials relevant to one of three themes, working on your skills and confidence in public speaking, and acquiring a host of new listening and speaking strategies will be the principal means by which we will work on developing your fluency and accuracy in English that are significant tools for effective interpretation.
Cultural Content & Applied Skills
Having sufficient background knowledge of global issues is an essential factor in the process of translation and interpretation. Therefore this class is designed to increase your awareness of current events and to enrich your knowledge and understanding of the world and American institutions. During the six-week program, we will cover the following themes: international organizations (UN, NATO, IGOs, the G8 and G20); trade and globalization (WTO, globalization, OECD); finance and economics (finance, business ethics, and political economy); politics (terrorism, human rights, immigration); the American judiciary; and science (genetically modified food, genetics, cyberspace). For each of these topics we will read articles and listen to audio/video clips. In class, we will further explore these topics through various activities such as discussions, debates, and presentations.
Description forthcoming.
Translation & Interpretation Workshop
Description forthcoming.
