Accreditation
This accreditation commission of evalag, Evalag-Baden-Württemberg
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Mission
The mission of the Department of Modern Languages and Translation is to enable students to promote interlinguistic communication. They will achieve a complete knowledge and practice of Arabic, French and English simultaneously with the other international languages elective acquisition as well as the art of translation and interpretation from one of these languages into another. Together with their increased professional standing, graduates will be in a position to equip Lebanon, at the confluence of the East and the West, with a historically healthy multilingualism and a capacity for openness, dialogue, communication and exchange, providing enrichment at all levels: economic, sociopolitical, educational and cultural etc. The Department is concerned with promoting multilingualism and rewardingly, to train professionals in the practice of written translation and interpretation.
Program Educational Objectives
1. Enable our future professional translators to communicate successfully in Arabic, French and English in multicultural contexts, in order to produce quality translations.
2. Train our future graduates to teach translation and modern languages in primary and secondary classes.
3. Build the professional competencies and skills of our future graduates who leave us equipped with lifelong learning habits.
Student Learning Outcomes
a. Students will acquire an ability to teach English.
b. An ability to teach the French language.
c. An ability to teach Arabic.
d. An ability to work in the development of bilingual glossaries.
e. An ability to teach general translation.
f. An ability to contribute to the lingual monitoring in their native language, Arabic.
g. An ability to contribute to lingual monitoring in a foreign language.
h. An ability to perform economic specialist translations.
i. An ability to perform legal specialist translations.
j. An ability to intervene in international negotiations and mediations.