Graduate Diploma in Legal Translation (Grad. Dip.)

The Graduate Diploma in Legal Translation program offered by the School of Continuing Studies is a 30-credit graduate-level, online program designed to meet the need for professionally trained legal translators and jurilinguists in Canada in both the public and private sectors. The program provides training not only in translation, but also in revision, co-writing of legal texts, consultancy in legal aspects of language in multiple professional settings, and principles and practices encountered in jurilinguistics and legal translation in key, high-demand sectors.

Keywords: continuing education, graduate diploma, legal translation, legal communication, translation, translators, jurilinguistics, official languages, common law, civil law, access to justice

• An eligible Bachelor's degree with a minimum 3.0 GPA out of a possible 4.0 GPA. For this program, Applicants must have an undergraduate or graduate degree, or its equivalent, in Translation, Law or a related discipline for which faculty approval rests with the School of Continuing Studies. A minimum cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 3.0 over 4.0 is required, or, of 3.2 out of 4.0 in the last two years of full-time studies.
• This program also requires an entrance examination

Each program has specific admission requirements including required application documents. Please visit the program website for more details.

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