Master degree program
Translation Studies in the field of International and Legal Relations

Translation Studies in the field of International and Legal Relations

QUALIFICATION

  • Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Philological Sciences

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

LO1 Тo develop algorithms for scientific research in translation studies based on methodological principles and translation strategies, theoretical foundations of intercultural communication, international and legal management, theory of foreign and native languages at the professional level, specifics of translation in accordance with requirements and norms of international and legal law in the process of interpretation.
LO2 To solve professional tasks based on a high level of active knowledge of original and translation language, quick reaction, clear diction, ability to focus, noise immunity, mental stability, good physical condition.
LO3 To collect and classify legal terms for translating legal documents, including translations for notarization and protocol functions in accordance with peculiarities of diplomatic protocol and etiquette of the Republic of Kazakhstan and foreign countries.
LO4 To evaluate and be able to draw up diplomatic documents, draft agreements, contracts, and programs of events and observe the norms of regional diplomatic etiquette in international contacts of business entities; carry out diplomatic correspondence with foreign partners or foreign policy bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
LO5 To know the features of diplomatic documents, types of diplomatic documents of intradepartmental and external diplomatic correspondence, requirements for diplomatic documentation in professional activities.
LO6 To perform translation in the field of international and legal relations: to achieve a high level of concentration and accuracy; demonstrate psychological stability under prolonged stress, manage emotions and behavior (interpreter – neutral translator); to use oral speech techniques and achieve smooth reading of a text in accordance with deployment of speaker's speech, good diction, correct intonation.
LO7 To prepare analytical reviews, systematizing information in the field of international relations using methodological principles and theoretical knowledge of the course.
LO8 To demonstrate a tolerant attitude to social, ethnic, religious, cultural and other differences between participants in international and legal negotiations and implement forms of intercultural communication among representatives of different cultures in the process of interpretation in order to ensure cooperation and full-fledged dialogue in accordance with international speech etiquette.
LO9 To provide with measures to use and develop professional knowledge and exchange experience in the field of theory and methodology of linguistics, psychological and pedagogical knowledge, linguistic and translation analysis, demonstrating the ability to adapt language and style to the speech of speaker and audience;
LO10 To distinguish language accents and regional variations, demonstrate a professional level of communicative and receptive (reading, listening) and productive (speaking and writing) skills in a foreign language for successful synchronization of speaker's speech in the process of translation activities in their practical professional activities.
LO11 To use translation recording techniques for consecutive translation effectively; apply text compression techniques; overcome psychological and emotional stress in two-way translation;
LO12 To perform probabilistic forecasting in conditions of simultaneous translation; use synchronous equipment, programs of text editors, electronic dictionaries. To train your working memory to increase the amount of information they can store.
LO13 To have an idea of the modern philosophy of science, including the main philosophical and methodological problems; use the skills of foreign language communication in specific professional, business, scientific, technical, political fields and situations; apply pedagogical and psychological methods of studying individuals and social groups in order to improve management efficiency.

Program passport

Speciality Name
Translation Studies in the field of International and Legal Relations
Speciality Code
7M02304
Faculty
International Relations

disciplines

Diplomatic documentation and diplomatic protocol
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Aim оf the discipline is to create ability to understand basic principles, rules and norms of maintaining diplomatic documentation. The course is aimed at developing the skill of drawing up diplomatic documents in accordance with the specifics of the situation and the requirements for writing and arranging diplomatic documentation.

Foreign Language (professional)
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form practical skills in various types of speech activity in a foreign language. The training course builds the ability to perceive, understand and translate information in the modern global space, participate in scientific events to test their own research. The discipline is aimed at improving competencies in accordance with international standards of foreign language education.

Foreign language in the context of intercultural communication (second) (French, Spanish, German, Italian, Chinese) Part 1
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Course purpose: to form communicative competences in four types of speech activity based on speech topics and language material. The issues studied: construction of correct grammatical forms, strategies for understanding speech and texts, language skills in different communication situations, argumentation skills, professional communication skills, common expressions in a foreign language.

Foreign language in the context of intercultural communication (second) (French, Spanish, German, Italian, Chinese) Part 2
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Course purpose: to form communicative competences in four types of speech activity based on speech topics and language material. The issues studied: strategies for improving speaking, listening and reading skills, new grammatical structures and vocabulary, written communication skills, cultural normative behavior patterns, skills for effective communication with representatives of another culture, cultural stereotypes.

History and Philosophy of Science
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form a holistic systemic understanding of philosophy as a special form of cognition of the world, its main sections, problems and methods of their study in the context of future professional activity. The training course forms the theoretical and methodological basis of research work.

Intercultural communication and translation problems
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form intercultural competence among undergraduates, which is achieved on the basis of mastering the strategies of intercultural communication and knowledge in the field of native and foreign cultures. As a result of studying the discipline, the undergraduate will be able to master the strategies of intercultural communication; study the features of native and foreign cultures; analyze translation as a special area of intercultural and interlingual communications.

Organization and Planning of Scientific Research (in English)
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline to form the ability to apply practical skills in the organization and planning of scientific research. The discipline studies: forms and methods of planning, organization and design of scientific articles and dissertations; forms of summarizing the results of scientific research in presentations, speeches, projects, articles.

Pedagogy of Higher Education
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to teach in universities and colleges based on knowledge of higher school didactics, theory of education and management of education, analysis and self-assessment of teaching activities. The training course is aimed at studying the trends in the development of education and the Bologna process. The course will help you master teaching and curatorial skills, various strategies and methods of teaching and education.

Practice of simultaneous interpreting
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to develop ability to apply fundamentals of simultaneous translation theory and practice to solve problems and difficulties in simultaneous translation. Subject area: features of simultaneous translation, technique of translation at international conference, within certain discourse, norms of lexical equivalence, grammatical and stylistic norms.

Practice of translation and interpretation
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the course is to develop knowledge and skills of translation required by a specialist in the field of professional communication. The training course is aimed at studying various types of written and oral translation by postgraduates: translation from a piece of paper, translation of conversations and negotiations, consecutive translation, simultaneous interpretation; shaping the ability of future specialists to perform translation analysis and solve translation issues.

Psychology of management
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to provide scientific training of highly qualified specialists based on the study of fundamental concepts of management psychology, creating prerequisites for a theoretical understanding and practical application of the most important aspects of the field of management in the process of professional formation. The course is aimed at studying the patterns of development and functioning of mental processes, the basics of effective interaction and conflict resolution, self-development and self-presentation.

Data for 2022-2025 years

disciplines

Art of diplomatic communication
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Course purpose: to develop students’ understanding of diplomatic etiquette, rules of conduct in international relations and their diplomatic language. The issues studied: forms of address, priorities in presentation sequence, rules of dress code, gifts and ceremonies; diplomatic ranks and their impact on protocol norms; culture of diplomatic speech and communication.

Innovative technologies and methods of teaching translation disciplines
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Course purpose: to introduce modern technologies and methods of teaching translation disciplines, innovative approaches in educational process. The issues studied: online platforms and mobile applications in teaching, interactive learning materials and simulations, artificial intelligence in translation training, modern methods of teaching translation, project techniques, teamwork, translation programs and tools.

Methods of teaching legal translation
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Course purpose: to develop practical skills in developing curricula, methods and technologies for teaching specialized translation. The issues studied: vocabulary and grammar of legal and diplomatic texts, terminology and its translation, types of legal and diplomatic documents and their translation, innovative teaching methods, methods of assessing students’ performance.

Modern court and military translation
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: basics of military affairs, knowledge of the military and judicial system of Kazakhstan and abroad, military and judicial terminology, the formation of the ability to make oral and written translations in the military and judicial spheres. The course provides an understanding of the theoretical foundations of military and forensic translation. The subject studies the features of oral and written translation of military and judicial terminology.

Modern international politics discourse
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Course purpose: to develop students' understanding of modern international political discourse, ability to analyze and interpret political events in a global context in a foreign language. The issues studied: aspects of world polarity, globalization and its consequences, military conflicts in international politics, nuclear proliferation, ideology and propaganda, forms of government.

Modern methodology of translation theory and practice
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: the formation of knowledge in the field of theory and practice of translation, the specifics of legal translation, mastering the practice of translation of the legal text. The course forms the concept of the application of theoretical and practical knowledge for the successful implementation of translation activities. The discipline studies the basic rules of translation theory and speech; methodology of translation and the concept of interlanguage and intercultural communication.

Practice of consecutive interpreting
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop the skills of pre-translation analysis of technical texts for the implementation of adequate sequential translation at international events. The following subjects will be studied: the methods of forming a vocabulary for the main industries of Kazakhstan; ways to expand background knowledge on the topic; methods of written and oral translation of medical texts, technical instructions; information texts; a set of translation transformations.

Practice of translation and interpretation
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the course is to develop knowledge and skills of translation required by a specialist in the field of professional communication. The training course is aimed at studying various types of written and oral translation by postgraduates: translation from a piece of paper, translation of conversations and negotiations, consecutive translation, simultaneous interpretation; shaping the ability of future specialists to perform translation analysis and solve translation issues.

Technique of translation recording
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course is to develop skills of translation speed-writing/recording as one of professional translator’s major skills. The study course is aimed at learning hearing perception of authentic speech at a natural pace for native speakers, regardless of the pronunciation and speech channel features (from live voice to audio and video recordings); ability to master basics of using abbreviated translation records when performing consecutive interpretation.

Translation and text linguistics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course is to develop the ability to perform interpretation and translation in compliance with the norms of lexical equivalence, grammatical, syntactic and stylistic norms of text translation and temporal characteristics of original text. Modern ideas about text linguistics, its grammatical, informative and stylistic resources; linguistic and stylistic research of text; oral text genres of native and foreign languages, socio-political, regional, historical and cultural information will be studied.

Translation of business negotiations and conferences
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to develop the skills of performing consecutive interpretation and simultaneous translation in compliance with the norms of lexical equivalence, in compliance with the grammatical, syntactic and stylistic norms of the text. The following subjects will be studied: the specifics of oral and written speech in various areas of professional communication, in various business negotiations and conferences; national and cultural features of the construction and organization of the text.

Translation of scientific texts
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course is to master knowledge of translation peculiarities of scientific texts as a type of linguistic activity and skills necessary for such translation. The training course is aimed at studying the main ways of translating structures of scientific texts; applying the knowledge gained in the course to further work with scientific texts.

Translation studies in the age of digitalization
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Course purpose: to develop critical thinking and understanding of impact of digitalization on modern translation studies. The issues studied: interactive teaching methods, artificial intelligence in translation studies, use of machine translation and neural networks in translation, tools for post-editing machine translation, digital platforms and translation project management, online resources.

Data for 2022-2025 years

INTERNSHIPS

Pedagogical
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Formation of practical, educational-methodical skills of conducting lectures, seminars, creatively apply scientific, theoretical knowledge, practical skills in teaching activities, conduct training sessions in the disciplines of the specialty; own modern professional techniques, methods of training, use in practice the latest theoretical, methodological advances, make educational, methodological documentation.

Research
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - The purpose of the practice: gaining experience in the study of an actual scientific problem, expand the professional knowledge gained in the learning process, and developing practical skills for conducting independent scientific work. The practice is aimed at developing the skills of research, analysis and application of economic knowledge.

Data for 2022-2025 years