Translation and Translation Studies

What do translators and interpreters do?
• They provide cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communication in various professional fields;
• translate various texts in the field of research and popular science, official, business and technical documents, media texts, fiction, etc.
• render materials in different languages;
• translate materials for localization;
• perform consecutive and simultaneous interpretation of business negotiations, conference speeches, interviews, etc.;

Curriculum:
• general philological and special translation disciplines;
• computer-assisted translation and simultaneous interpreting in modern language labs;
• general linguistics: theoretical phonetics, lexicology, stylistics, etc.;
• literature, culture, and history of English-, German- and French-speaking countries;
• practical language disciplines: practical courses of the first (English) and second (French / German) foreign languages, workshops on the culture of speech communication of the first and second foreign languages, etc.
• translation theory: fundamentals of scientific and technical translation; practical courses of translation and interpreting of the first and second foreign languages in special areas, etc.

Where do interpreters and translators work?
• translation bureaus or agencies,
• international departments / foreign relations departments;
• organizations and enterprises engaged in various international and foreign economic activities;
• mass media;
• state and municipal institutions,
• information and analytical services of foreign and Russian companies.

Infrastructure

The Institute of Philology, Foreign Languages and Media Communications is equipped with:
• modern multimedia classrooms and computer classes;
• language laboratories;
• consecutive and simultaneous translation rooms;
• methodical offices.