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OF ART
Ugo Nespolo
DEPARTMENT LANGUAGES
AND CULTURE
Master Interpreting and Traslation
in Arabic Language
Educational objectives
This master's program aims at training professionals
capable of managing, with excellent language command
and competency, relationships of interpreting in an international context with particular reference
to the Mediterranean area and Persian Gulf market. Its peculiar value is the ability to connect the
language with a deep knowledge of Arabic life and culture.
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Structurae of the master
The course last one academic year and it revolves around three different teaching phases
Phase 1 - Conventional classroom - The course takes place in Rome at the Training Centre.
Two semesters of classroom activities, with the help of modern audio-visual technology, during
which several mother tongue teachers will work at reaching the following aims:
Language structure - acquisition of language command in grammatical and syntactic structure
of thought, logical construction and oral transposition of concepts, logical construction and written
transposition, simultaneous and delayed interpreting, context analysis, new elaboration and
personalization of discourse.
Language
sector - language acquisition and command of sectorial languages in
terms of semantics
and utilization in context; at least two dhifferent sectors are sceduled: the social-political and
economic,
and the tourist and multimedia sectors.
Arabic
culture and environment - the knowledge of a language is completed
with the knowledge
of culture and the environment of the place where the language is spoken. Civil and religious usages,
customs and traditions together with a basic knowledge of literature complete the cycle of studies.
Phase 2 - On the job classroom - three months of training on the job at companies of Arabic
language in Italy or companies that deal mainly with countries of Arabic language.
The aim of this phase is the perfect command typically sectorial, utilized in the guest company,
and the involvement of the learner in typical communicative and procedural activities.
Phase 3 - Classroom in the environment - Study trip of one month to a country where the
Arabic language is spoken to improve and verify in place one's ability to communicate.
The teachers of the Master program come from the most famous arabs university and their specific
experience is teaching the Arabic language to foreign students. Teachers of Arabic mother tongue
with perfect command of the Italian language will help them in their relationship with the students.
Study program
The one-year academic program includes 12 courses and an internship for a total of 810 hours of
training in addition to the optional study trip in an Arab country.
Basic courses
1 -
Advanced composition and conversation (70h)
2 - Phonetics (14h) + language laboratory (28h)
3 - Lexical etymology, proverbs and sayings, language
gestures (14h)
4 - Sectorial language I e II (28h)
5 - Code of ethics of the interpreter/translator (14)
6 - History of Arabic literature - (42h)
7 - Civilization and culture of the Arab world - (42h)
8 - Most representative writers and poets of the contemporary
Arabic world - (28h)
9 - Arabic art (28h)
10 - Economics resources and political realities in the
contemporary Arab world - (28h)
11 - Current political, economic and social events in the
Arab world (28h)
Optional courses
Economic
geography of the Arab world - (14h)
Islam and other religions in the Arab world - (14h)
All courses are taught on a semester basis
First semester:
Courses 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, and an optional course
Second semester:
Courses 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11
The diploma of University Master, with the indication of the acquired 60 credits, will be awarded
at the same time by the Italian and Arabic universities.
Stage
Three-months training on-the-job at companies of Arabic language in Italy or at firms that deal
mainly with countries of Arabic language. The aims of the phase is the perfect command of
the language, typically sectorial utilized in the guest company and the involvement of the
learner in communicative and procedural activities. It is up to the Master Administration to
locate companies and firms appropriate to the student's languages needs.
Study trip
Optional one-month study trip in a country where the Arabic language is spoken to improve and
verify in place one's ability level to communicate.
