Faculty	Faculty of Interpreting and Translation
Studies Course name	Specialized translation and conference interpreting
Course type	Master's degree
Academic year	2023/2024
Order	D.M. 270/2004
Degree class	LM-94 -Specialist translation and interpreting
Type of access	Course with number of places programmed with selective knowledge test
Language in which the course is held	Italian

The Conference Interpreting curriculum will allow you to perfect your skills in the field of language mediation while also studying disciplines and subject matters that will complete your training.

The teaching of foreign languages in the Conference Interpreting Curriculum also includes sectorial language, so as to facilitate your entry into the labour market.

You will have the opportunity to improve your command and knowledge of the Italian language, essential for linguistic mediation, and to deepen your technical preparation and control of computer tools that will serve your future profession.
Your preparation will also be completed by the study of historical-legal disciplines and sociological and communicative processes.

Students of the Specialised Translation Curriculum have the possibility to obtain an Italian-French double degree by virtue of the agreements that IULM University has signed with the Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse and with the Institut de management et de communication interculturels (ISIT), Paris.


Double Degree with UHA Mulhouse

The Master's Degree Course in Specialised Translation and Interpreting, curriculum Specialised Translation and Interpreting, activated in the Faculty of Interpreting and Translation of the IULM University, offers a Double Diploma course with the Master in Traduction Scientifique et Technique of the Faculté des Lettres, Langues et Sciences Humaines of the Université de Haute-Alsace, UHA, in Mulhouse. This project is part of the broader framework of academic collaboration developed by the Università Italo Francese (UIF-UFI), a binational institution promoting university and scientific collaboration between Italy and France. The Double Diploma course was activated in 2017 and in 2022 it was the winner of the Vinci Call for Proposals for the funding of Double Master's/Master's Degrees, certifying the standard of qualitative excellence achieved.

The strength of the project is the international training provided to the selected candidates, who will study at the destination for a semester in the second year of their studies, following the activities planned for the courses activated there. In addition, students who choose this type of course will be exempt from paying tuition fees at the destination university. A prerequisite for selection is proficiency in French, Italian and English. At the end of the mobility period envisaged in the Dual Degree programme, having returned to their university, students will have acquired 30 ECTS and will sit the final degree examination before an examining board composed of members of the two partner universities, IULM and UHA.

The learning experience through attendance of a Double Degree course is intended to ensure that students acquire an international scientific, cultural and professional qualification, a requirement that is increasingly in high demand and necessary in today's global context.

Double Degree with ISIT Paris

The Master's Degree Course in Specialised Translation and Conference Interpreting, Specialised Translation curriculum, activated in the Faculty of Interpreting and Translation of IULM University, offers a Double Diploma pathway with the Master's Course in Communication Interculturelle et Traduction, Traduction pathway, of the ISIT (Institut de management et de communication interculturels), operating from 2021.

The strength of the project is the international training provided to the selected candidates, who will study at the foreign location during the second year of their studies, following the activities planned for the courses activated there. Moreover, students who choose this type of course will be exempt from paying tuition fees at the destination university. A prerequisite for selection is proficiency in French, Italian and English. At the end of the mobility period envisaged in the Dual Degree programme, students will have to have acquired 60 ECTS and will have to pass the final degree examination, which can be taken either at the university of origin or at the university of destination, according to the procedures in place respectively, and discussed before an examining board composed of members of the two partner universities, IULM and ISIT.

The learning experience through attendance of a Double Degree course is intended to ensure that students acquire an international scientific, cultural and professional profile, a requirement that is increasingly in demand and necessary in today's global context.

To view the call for applications, see the Erasmus mobility page

The degree course is divided into two curricula, Specialised Translation and Conference Interpreting, and defines its specific training objectives as follows.

Its main objective is the training of graduates with a highly specialized knowledge of English and of a second foreign language (German/French/Spanish/Russian/Chinese/Arabic), with a focus on specialised and technical-scientific translation and simultaneous and consecutive interpretation in work contexts where a high level of linguistic mediation is required in terms of form and cultural peculiarities.An in-depth training on the Italian language and culture, from a comparative and European perspective, will ensure a professional management of the linguistic/cultural apparatus in order to be competitive in the international and EU market.
The training of the student will be completed through internships in the professional area of reference.

Bachelor Degree students are provided with tools that make them aware of market requirements and job profiles; help them manage relationships and negotiations with clients; help them work under pressure and with other experts in multilingual and group contexts (including in virtual teams); help them meet requests (deadlines, commitments, interpersonal skills); help them develop a terminological and documentary search; help them use search engines effectively (terminology software, electronic corpora, electronic dictionaries).

As part of the Interpreting curriculum, given the high probability that the student will also work as a translator, pragmatic translation workshops are planned too.

The Translation curriculum includes workshops held in the chosen language by native speakers in order to give the students the oral skills required to both negotiate with customers and to translate audio or audiovisual materials, .

It is also possible for students of the specialised translation curriculum to obtain a double Italian-French master's degree by virtue of the agreement that the IULM University has perfected with the Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse