The objective of this professionally-oriented program is to train legal translators or revisers, primarily to meet the needs of Canada, where two legal systems (common law and civil law) operate. It is intended for law graduates who wish to specialize in legal translation and revision from English to French. Graduates of this program will be able to work as legal translators or revisers in government, industry or law firms.

Languages

Given that the demand for legal translators and revisers is primarily for those working from English into French, the program is intended for students whose dominant language is French. Courses in this program will be offered in French.

The professors included in the list below are members of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. This means that they are authorized to supervise or co-supervise theses. A complete list of the faculty and staff members associated with the program can be found at http://www.translation.uottawa.ca

BASALAMAH, Salah, Associate Professor
Translation studies (theory); postcolonialism; cultural studies; philosophy of translation; translation and law (copyright)

BOWKER, Lynne, Associate Professor
Machine (-assisted) translation; corpus linguistics; terminology; translation pedagogy; organization of information

BRISSET, Annie, Full Professor
Discourse analyses; culture and translation; translation theory; pedagogy of translation and interpretation (curriculum development)

CHARRON, Marc, Associate Professor
Literary translation; translation methodology ; adaptation; translation studies ; hispanic literatures ; new media sociology

DELISLE, Jean, Emeritus Professor
Pedagogy of Translation, History of Translation

FOLKART, Barbara, Adjunct Professor
Translation and enunciation; modes of writing; literary of translation

FOZ, Clara, Associate Professor
History of translation; hispanic translation; technical translation (pedagogy)

FRASER, Ryan, Assistant Professor

GRUTMAN, Rainier, Full Professor
Bilingual writers and multilingual writing (involving combinations of French, English, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and German), self-translation (in Canada, Spain and Belgium), the poetics and politics of intertextuality - in particular in the Romantic era

MARSHMAN, Elizabeth, Assistant Professor
Corpus-based terminology; conceptual relation extraction; translation and terminology tools

VON FLOTOW, Luise, Full Professor
Literary translation; gender and translation; audiovisual translation; Canadian studies

WILLIAMS, Malcolm, Replacement Professor
Translation teaching (quality assessment)

• An undergraduate degree in Law, or the equivalent, with a minimum 70 per cent (B) average, calculated in accordance with FGPS guidelines;
• Successful completion of the School of Translation and Interpretation (STI) entrance examination.

Students whose entrance examination results reveal slight weaknesses in either French or English will be required to register for an additional language course. The results of the examination are valid for one year. Individuals reapplying after that time must retake it.

Students who meet requirements 1 and 2 above and who, in addition, have completed university courses in translation, may be granted equivalencies for some or all of the 15 credits of undergraduate translation courses that are normally required for the master's program. To be eligible, they must achieve an excellent result (above 80%) in the entrance examination.

Admission Procedure

In addition to completing our on-line application and paying the application fee to the Ontario Universities’ Application Centre, students must also assemble all relevant documentation and forward the complete application package to the director of the School of Translation and Interpretation. Applications will not be processed without the application fee and the complete file.

To find the application deadline, please check the “program-specific requirements” under Application Procedures and Information at the following address: www.grad.uottawa.ca/apply.

Period of Study

Requirements (51 credits)

Duration of the Program

Minimum Standards

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