College of Letters and Science Faculty Document No. 558 April 10, 2000 ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE GRADUATE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IN TRANSLATION Annual Report, 1998-1999 Enrollments At the start of its second year, the program had 9 students. In the course of the year (through August 21, 1999), 5 qualifying exams were administered and 4 students were accepted into the program. A fifth was accepted by portfolio. The program will enter its third year with 14 students: 6 in Spanish, 4 in French, 2 in German, and 1 each in Irish and Italian. Ten of the 14 are pursuing an MA as well as the Certificate. Program Courses Offered Semester 1: Introduction to Translation (Spanish 347) Seminar in Advanced Translation (French 526) Translation Theory (CompLit 820) Semester 2:   Terminology Management and Computer Use in Translation (MAFLL 726) Translation Internship (MAFLL 730) Students also could take Advanced Technical Writing (English 435) and Introduction to Reference Services and Resources (LibSci 510). Program Broadened In May, 1999, the program was modified, broadening the available electives to include Editing and Publishing (English 434), Writing for Computer Technology (English 436), and "a course in the student's area of specialization" (a field such as economics, pre-law, health and pre-medicine, one of the sciences, etc., in which there is translation work available). Service to the Campus Community In the Spring semester, student Kathleen Farrell translated from French into English a 27-page academic paper on the French writer Beaumarchais, which was given subsequently at a Conference on Eighteenth-Century literature held in Milwaukee in March. CIPD Grant Student Helene Wimmerlin and mentor Madeleine Velguth received a CIPD grant for an "ATA Technology Survey and Development of Curriculum for the Training of Francophone Translators." American Translators Association Conference Helene Wimmerlin accompanied Coordinator Velguth to the annual ATA conference, Hilton Head, SC, Nov. 4-7, 1998. MA Exams, Graduation, and Employment In April, Nina Familiant (English>Russian) and Helene Wimmerlin (English>French) successfully completed comprehensive examinations for the MA. They graduated in the May commencement, the first two students to earn a Graduate Certificate in Translation and an MA, Translation Track. Ms. Wimmerlin went on to a job with Iverson Language Associates, the firm at which she interned; Ms. Familiant will pursue a Ph.D. in Russian.