The UNSW Graduate Certificate in Translation and Interpreting allows you to build professional translating and interpreting skills and begin to specialise according to your career goals. You'll develop practical techniques with access to current real-world technologies and with translation studies and interpreting coursework led by industry-experienced lecturers.

This postgraduate program is endorsed by the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI) and prepares you for their certification exams.

Why study a graduate certificate?
This is the fastest pathway to a professional qualification or further study at UNSW - you can be qualified in less than a year. In comparison, the graduate diploma takes one year to complete, and the master’s degree takes two years.

Both higher programs offer more knowledge and opportunities for specialisation and professional development – they also credit this certificate as recognition for prior learning. If you wish to quickly achieve a professional standard from a recognised institution, this certificate is ideal for you.

Key features

Customised study plan
Choose courses that focus on your preferred specialisation, including legal, medical, business, media, and community translation and interpreting. Depending on demand, you’ll build your specialisation in Chinese (Mandarin), Chinese (Cantonese), French, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Portuguese, Serbian or Spanish.

Real-world technology
You'll have access to the latest interpreting and translation technology and equipment including training stations, simultaneous interpreting booths, a moot courtroom, translation memories, machine translation, audio-visual translation (subtitling and captioning) and corpus linguistics software.

NAATI endorsement
The National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI) endorses this graduate certificate, which means you will be prepared to sit the following exams with NAATI:

• Certified Provisional Interpreter
• Certified Interpreter
• Certified Translator