Graduate Diploma in Interpreting, Translation and Transcultural Communication

Facilitate understanding

This one-year degree is for students fluent in both Chinese and English seeking a career as a professional interpreter and/or translator.

It has received qualification endorsement of the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI).

What will you do?

In our Graduate Diploma in Interpreting, Translation and Transcultural Communication you’ll:

  • take courses in cultural and social studies
  • explore approaches to cross-cultural communication
  • build practical interpreting and translation skills
  • undertake a professional internship.

Where could it take you?

When you graduate, you’ll be eligible to take NAATI’s Certified Interpreter and Certified Translator tests. From here you might become a medical, judiciary or literary translator. You could pursue interpreting roles in business, tourism, education or public relations. Perhaps you’ll work with government alongside foreign affairs ministers.