Language, Culture, Translation and Interpreting - Spanish

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

• understand the function of language variations (social, geographical or historical) and use the appropriate grammatical, lexical and idiomatic structures of their working languages (01 – Language and culture); 
• identify cultural elements, values and references in the written or oral text (including presuppositions, allusions and stereotypes) and write in accordance with the cultural conventions, and conventions of genre and rhetorical standards (02 – Language and culture); 
• draft texts for specific purposes in one or more of their working languages, taking into account specific situations, recipients and constraints (9 – Translation). 

• identify and employ documentation that is pertinent and useful in comprehending, and enlarging upon, the themes and questions addressed; 
• read, understand and summarise Spanish written texts and audio-visual material relating to themes and questions addressed;  
• classify chronologically the most significant political processes of the countries studied, applying high-quality analysis and clear expression and respecting the terminology specific to the topic; 
• bring together similar elements from miscellaneous sources to achieve a coherent, high-quality informational whole; 
• understand, explain, situate and illustrate both the concepts addressed in the course and the implicit cultural, historical and political references present in the material to be translated or interpreted;  
• fluently extemporize ideas and opinions on current political, economic, social and cultural affairs with clarity and attention to accuracy;  
• render the essential content of complex messages in Spanish with rapidity and in a structured way with the aim of facilitating intercultural and interlinguistic mediation;  
• present, orally and in written form, an individual work of analysis dealing with historical, cultural and linguistic topics addressed in the course and observing the rules specific to writing and public speaking in Spanish; 
• apply to translating and interpreting the concepts addressed in the course.