COLLABORATIVE TRAINING
AUGUST 2009
INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSLATION OF CONTRACT (E-LEARNING) (748)
Teacher: Trad. Publ. Cynthia Farber.
date: Monday 3 August.
Duration: 4 weeks.
Fee: $ 200.
Objectives:
This course is intended that the translator is familiar with the typical Anglo-Saxon institutions of contract law and to identify the extent and consequences of the concepts you read in the text that is presented to translate, so to solve the translation of a satisfactory manner, respecting sense while adapting forms and writing to the particularities of the target language
Agenda: Unit 1
Contract Definition - Elements. Contract Definition
Civil Code and the UCC. Differences and similarities.
Parties capacity.
Agreement wills. Consideration
.
Form (formal contracts).
existence and validity requirements.
Unit 2 Structure of the Contract. Heading
.
recitals.
typical Clauses: Definition, Privacy, fortuitous and Force Majeure, Applicable Law, Jurisdiction, Address, Severability, Arbitration among others. Unit 3
Classification of Contracts.
Comparison of classifications in the two systems: unilateral and bilateral contracts / Unilateral and Bilateral Contracts, among others. Continued
Analysis, drafting and translation of typical clauses. Terminology, money and uses. Unit 4
Compliance and breach of contract. Terms and conditions
. Implicit and explicit conditions.
Default. Alternative dispute resolution. Exceptions. Enforceability, invalidity, annulment, nullity.
most common repair pathways in the two systems.
Termination of contracts.
Start Date: 03/08/2009 Closing
Registration: 25/07/2009
PROOFREADING IN SPANISH MODULE I (E-LEARNING) (860)
MODULE I . CORRECTION LEVEL: GRAMMAR AND TEXTUAL
Teacher: Ms. Claudia Aguirre. MODULE I . CORRECTION LEVEL: GRAMMAR AND TEXTUAL
Start date: Monday 10 August.
Duration: 4 weeks.
Fee: $ 200.
The course is geared specifically to the correction of texts in English.
is work specific problems that arise in the task of proofreading and editing of translations, and will aim to reflection on key aspects of the activity.
The methodology will be practical. Students will receive weekly theoretical material, PowerPoint presentations, and application exercises to correct a text which will focus, in particular, the subjects discussed in the unit. The exercises resolved and corrected text will be delivered to the teacher on a date scheduled in advance. The activity will be complemented by discussions in the forums and chat sessions.
Due to the number and complexity of the issues that are intended to cover, the contents are divided into three modules, independently of each other, four weeks each.
Agenda: Introduction
. Levels of correction of a text: spelling, spelling, morphosyntactic, stylistic and vocabulary. Reliable sources: lexical dictionaries, dictionaries of doubt, web sites, manuals and style guides. Posing of the questions raised against the work of correction and editing.
1. The tenses and modes, uses and meanings. Verbal correlations. Misuse of the subjunctive conditional. Times obsolete. The gerund: restrictions. Regular and irregular participles. Uses of the infinitive.
2. Special Match: article and noun, noun and adjective, noun and verb. The position of the adjective in English. Special plural: compound words, Latin words, foreign words. Appositional compounds.
3. Pronouns and connectors. Uses, functions and common concerns. Common Mistakes of cohesion and coherence. Inaccuracies in the reference. Rules on the use of adverbs. Coordination problems.
4. Syntactic inconsistencies, incorrect use of some prepositions and prepositional phrases, queísmo, dequeísmo, link verbs with different prepositions, anacolutha, disagreements, etc.
Start Date: 10/08/2009 Closing
Registration: 05/08/2009
TRANSLATION TEXT ON ENVIRONMENT MODULE I (E-LEARNING) (844)
Teacher: Trad. Publ. Diana Rivas. date: Monday 31 August.
Duration: 4 weeks.
Fee: $ 200 .-
Agenda:
Waste Management Typology R.
RSU. The three Rs. Recovery.
The way of waste.
Landfill.
Hazardous waste: treatment, storage and disposal.
Environmental Responsibility.
Legislation.
resources and attractions.
Start Date: 31/08/2009 Closing
Registration: 25/08/2009
SEPTIEMBRE 2009
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (E-LEARNING) (750)
Profesora: Trad. Públ. Cynthia Farber.
Fecha de inicio: Martes 1 de septiembre.
Duración: 6 semanas.
Arancel: $300.-
Objetivos :
The course is designed for translators who wish to get acquainted with typical business administration concepts in order to provide a meaningful translation, while adapting structures and style to the target language. This intensive program will also prove useful for other professionals, such as English teachers, who work in companies training staff and would like to feel more confident concerning the main branches of business administration - i.e., management and strategy, microeconomics and macroeconomics, finance and accounting, marketing and human resources.
Temario :
UNIT 1- MANAGEMENT & STRATEGY
- Exploring Mission and Vision.
- Business Strategy and the SWOT Analysis.
- BCG: The Growth-Share Matrix.
- Business Strategy and Market Structure.
- Porter's Model of Competitive Analysis.
- Generic Strategies.
- The Value Chain.
- Distinguishing Core Competence and Competitive Advantage.
- Of Strategy, Deliberate and Emergent.
- Understanding Cooperation and Coopetition.
* * *
Michael Porter, Peter Drucker, Peter Senge, Tom Peters and other great minds of business management.
What is business? What is the difference between business management and business administration (if any)?
Confront the terms Strategy and Tactic.
Competitive Advantage or Competitive Edge? And Core Competences? Competence or Competition? What is it to be “Competitive”?
Competitors / Players; Suppliers/ Providers/ Vendors and many other related concepts.
UNIT 2 - ECONOMICS
- Macroeconomics.
- Aggregate Income - GDP/ GNP.
- Employment - Unemployment.
- The Business Cycles.
- Inflation, Hyperinflation, Deflation, and other related concepts.
- Recession and Depression.
- Fiscal Policy versus Monetary Policy.
- Deficit in the National Budget.
- Foreign Trade.
- Microeconomics.
- The Laws of Supply and Demand.
- The Language of Graphs and Trends.
- The Concept of Scarcity and the Opportunity Cost.
- Costs of Production - Direct/Indirect costs - Fixed/Variable Costs.
- Market Structures.
* * *
Distinguishing microeconomic from macroeconomic affairs.
The Language of Economists. How do economists think (and write)?
UNIT 3 - ACCOUNTING & FINANCE
- Money.
- Finance Defined.
- Accounting Defined.
- The Financial versus the Economic Approach.
- The Annual Report.
- The Balance Sheet.
- Assets.
- Liabilities.
- Stockholders' Equity (Net Worth, Net Assets?).
- The Income Statement (Profit and Loss Account?).
- The Statement of Cash Flows.
- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles - GAAP.
- Accounting Methods: Cash v. Accrual
* * * Several
We will pose questions for research and analysis (Both in Inglés and in English): What is economic and financial what?, Do states are accounting or finance?, "Balance and balance sheet are the same ?, will the cash flow and statement of sources and uses of funds are the same?, "Taxes or tribute?," charges, levies, duties, tariffs?, "gross or net?," providing o previsión?, ¿Índices o coeficientes?, ¿Financiación o financiamiento?, ¿Depreciación o amortización?
Income statement or P&L account?
Net worth? Net assets? Or stockholders' equity?
Shareholders or stockholders? Shares, stock, or shares of stock?
Confronting liability and eiabilities? Confronting interest and interests.
And much more…
UNIT 4 - MARKETING
- What is Marketing?
- What does a Marketing Manager do?
- The Marketing Mix.
- Product Life Cycles.
- Customer Analysis.
- Market Segmentation.
- Competitive Analysis.
- What is a Product?
- Services Marketing.
- Pricing Basics.
- What is a Distribution Channel?
* * * Consumer vs. User
; Client vs. Customer
"Marketing, marketing or marketing?
"Market analysis or market research?
segments, squares, markets, sectors, industries.
UNIT 5 - HUMAN RESOURCES
- Human Resource Strategy and Tactic.
- Key HR Challenges for Today's Managers.
- Organizational Structure.
- Teams.
- Job Design Job vs. Job Description vs. Analysis.
- The Flexible Workforce - Teleworkers.
- The Hiring Process.
- What is Performance Appraisal?
- Training versus Development.
- What is Compensation?
- What Are Employee Separations?
* * * Staff, personnel, or human resources?
Coaching, Training, Development.
Organizational structure and the Organizational Chart.
Hiring, firing, and related concepts
Compensation, Remuneration, pay, salary, Wages, perks.
Start Date: 01/09/2009 Closing
Registration: 24/08/2009
PROOFREADING IN SPANISH MODULE II (E-LEARNING) (861)
MODULE II. CORRECTION LEVEL Stylistics
Teacher: Ms. Claudia Aguirre.
Start date: Monday 14 September.
Duration: 4 weeks.
Fee: $ 200.
The course is geared specifically to the correction of texts in English.
is work specific problems that arise in the task of proofreading and editing of translations, and aim to reflect on key aspects of the activity.
The methodology will be practical. Students will receive weekly theoretical material, PowerPoint presentations, and application exercises to correct a text which will focus, in particular, the subjects discussed in the unit. The exercises resolved and corrected text will be delivered to the teacher on a date scheduled in advance. The activity will be complemented by discussions in the forums and chat sessions.
Due to the number and complexity of the issues that are intended to cover, the contents are divided into three modules, independently of each other, four weeks each. Agenda
:
1. and 2. Concept of style and fitness: type textual and communicative situation. New practices of reading, the text effectively. Criteria for Standardization: dictionaries, style manuals and style guides. Typographic legibility: the visual perception of text. Linguistic legibility. The construction of the paragraph. Prayer: the order of sentence components. The length of the sentence. Extent and location of sections.
3. The subordination and coordination. The abstraction and depersonalization in the speech. Nominalization. The passive voice. Passive "se" and passive periphrastic. The "se" impersonal. Asymmetries. Cacophony. Negative statements.
4. Issues of vocabulary: improprieties, crutches, topics, words, wildcard, periphrasis words "archisilábicas" cultism inadequate. The standard English (international or neutral) and regionalism. Neologisms and foreign words.
Start Date: 14/09/2009 Registration
Close : 07/09/2009
proofreading and editing of texts translated into English (E-LEARNING) (828)
Professor: Alejandro Parini.
Start date: Monday 21 September.
Duration: 5 weeks.
Fee: $ 250 .-
Objectives:
The course aims to improve the redaccción in English and in turn address the complex relationship between language, culture and society through translations and proofreading English. Agenda
:
Among the topics to be discussed include:
1. features textual coherence and cohesion
2. election the vocabulary in context
3. social and cultural aspects of language
These three themes are developed through the correction of selected texts from different sources and on various topics.
Start Date: 21/09/2009 Closing
Registration: 09/14/2009
OCTOBER 2009
PROOFREADING IN SPANISH MODULE III (E-LEARNING) (862)
MODULE III. CORRECTION LEVEL: Orthographic and
Spelling Teacher: Ms. Claudia Aguirre.
Date Start: Monday 19 October.
Duration: 4 weeks.
Fee: $ 200.
The course is designed specifically for the correction of texts in English.
is work specific problems that arise in the task of proofreading and editing of translations, and aim to reflect on key aspects of the activity.
The methodology will be practical. Students will receive weekly theoretical material, PowerPoint presentations, and application exercises to correct a text which will focus, in particular, the subjects discussed in the unit. The exercises resolved and corrected text will be presented to Professor on a date scheduled in advance. The activity will be complemented by discussions in the forums and chat sessions.
Due to the number and complexity of the issues that are intended to cover, the contents are divided into three modules, independently of each other, four weeks each. Agenda
:
1. Rules on the use of punctuation marks: comma, semicolon, colon, and followed point, full stop, period. Non-linguistic uses some signs. Amounts score. The capital letter after the colon.
2. Rules on the use of punctuation marks: dashes, parentheses, quotation marks, ellipsis, brackets, slash, apostrophe, asterisk and double bar. Use of italics. Typographical foreign words.
3. Rules on the use of uppercase and lowercase. Problematic issues for translation. Abbreviations: Abbreviations, shortening, acronyms, and symbols Siglon. Frequent problems in translation.
4. The exclamation and interrogation. Diacritical accent. Monosyllables. Words with double emphasis. Special cases of stress. The accentuation of compounds. Latino accent. Frequently Asked Questions in the accentuation of certain words.
Start Date: 19/10/2009
Close Registration: 14/10/2009
CONTRACT LAW TO EXPLORE AND TECHNICAL WRITING AND TRANSLATION OF CONTRACT (E-LEARNING) (749)
Teacher: Trad. Publ. Cynthia Farber.
date: Monday 26 October.
Duration: 4 weeks.
Fee: $ 200 .-
Objectives:
This course is intended that the translator deepen their knowledge of the typical Anglo-Saxon institutions of contract law and to identify the extent and consequences of the concepts you read in the text it has to translate, in order to achieve a final translation of high quality, respecting the meaning and the same time adapting forms and writing to the particularities of the target language. To do this, we will analyze various types contractual clauses that may present special difficulties and will last a reference to the format and presentation aspects of the contracts.
Agenda: Unit 1
Drafting of contracts.
Consideration of the alternatives over the life of the contract: 'whatiffing Contracts. " Movement of Plain
Inglés and their characteristics. Advantages and disadvantages. When to use. Comparison with the legalese.
resolution of the translation of typical complex clauses.
Unit 2
Special contracts. Terms
contractual characteristics of different types: franchise, licensing, distribution, among others.
standard clauses of these contracts and qualifications as the object of each contract. Unit 3
Special contracts.
typical clauses for international contracts: Jurisdiction, Applicable law, contract language, conflict resolution, methods of payment, among others.
Unit 4 Revision of the translation of a contract. Format
Contract indices and subscripts, titles, captions and automatic numbering of additional clauses, paragraphs and inciscos. Page numbering.
Period: no later / sooner Than; advance minimum / maximum, consecutive days, working days, calendar days, calendar days, business days, working days.
Parties: frequent errors of distraction and confusion of the parties. Errors in the original
: how to proceed?
Start Date: 26/10/2009 Closing
Registration: 20/10/2009
ASSISTED TRAINING
TRADOS MODULE 1 (E-LEARNING) (679)
Course distance e-learning-assisted training.
Teacher: Trad. Publ. Gabriela González.
VERY IMPORTANT: DO NOT READ THE DETAILS OF TRAINING COURSES ASSISTED UNDER "aided training." Agenda
:
Introduction to translation memories and machine translation compared.
Workbench.
Configuration Workbench to work with a MS Word document. Settings
substitutes.
Creating a translation memory, translation of a short document using all the commands in the template of Trados. Recognition
terms.
Using the matching button. Cleaning
document.
Analysis with an existing memory.
Translation footnotes.
display and resolution of problems - log file.
Opening: April 20, 2009.
Close: November 30, 2009.
Fee: $ 200.
Start Date: 20/04/2009 Closing
Registration: 30/11/2009
TRADOS MODULE 2 (E-LEARNING) (680)
Distance learning e-learning training assisted.
Teacher: Trad. Publ. Gabriela González.
VERY IMPORTANT: DO NOT READ THE DETAILS OF TRAINING COURSES ASSISTED UNDER "TRAINING ASSISTED.
Agenda:
Introduction to the translation of web pages, HTML, tags, download sites and word.
work environment settings TagEditor web pages.
translation practice with the various TagEditor supported formats (html, xml, Powerpoint, Excel).
Protection and checking labels, use the spelling checker.
Cleaning the document and memory management.
segment level verification.
Verification document level - Add-Ins TagEditor.
Opening: April 20, 2009.
Close: November 30, 2009.
Fee: $ 200.
Start Date: 20/04/2009 Closing
Registration: 30/11/2009
TRADOS MODULE 3 (E-LEARNING) (681)
Distance learning e-learning-assisted training.
Teacher: Trad. Publ. Gabriela González.
VERY IMPORTANT: DO NOT READ THE DETAILS OF TRAINING COURSES ASSISTED UNDER "aided training."
Agenda:
WinAlign.
What is an alignment tool? (Recycling and editing documents.) Creating a project
alignment.
automatic alignment control. Export results
. Fusion
export in a memory, memory power and change languages. Reports for
Update: Maintenance, WB window, Concordance and from Options (Clean). Setting
segmentation rules.
Agreement: reference translation memory and setting rates.
Opening: April 20, 2009.
Close: November 30, 2009.
Fee: $ 200.
Start Date: 20/04/2009 Closing
Registration: 30/11/2009
TRADOS MODULE 4 (E-LEARNING) (682)
Distance learning e-learning training assisted.
Teacher: Trad. Publ. Gabriela González.
VERY IMPORTANT: DO NOT READ THE DETAILS OF TRAINING COURSES ASSISTED UNDER "aided training."
Agenda:
terminology databases. Multiterm
. Recognition
tabs and options.
Creating a termbase.
Definition of fields and database structure. Food
, Editing and Modification of the database manually.
MultiTerm Convert. Recognition
tabs and options. Conversion of existing bases
(MT 5v5, Excel and txt).
resulting file id: Explanation of the 4 files.
. XCD
.
XML. XDT
. LOG
Creating a database from the definition created in MT Convert (. XDT). Food
Base from imported logs (. XML).
Opening: April 20, 2009.
Close: November 30, 2009.
Fee: $ 200.
Start Date: 20/04/2009 Closing
Registration: 30/11/2009
TRADOS MODULE 5 (E-LEARNING) (683)
Distance learning e-learning-assisted training.
Teacher: Trad. Publ. Gabriela González.
VERY IMPORTANT: DO NOT READ THE DETAILS OF TRAINING COURSES ASSISTED UNDER "TRAINING ASSISTED.
Agenda:
MT interaction with WB, Microsoft Word and TagEditor.
When and how to apply the spelling - the creation of macros.
MT Food from WB and during the translation process.
Review Options term recognition.
Opening: April 20, 2009.
Close: November 30, 2009.
Fee: $ 200.
Start Date: 20/04/2009 Closing
Registration: 30/11/2009
TRANSLATION OF WEB PAGES (E-LEARNING) (687)
Distance learning e-learning-assisted training.
Teacher: Trad. Publ. Gabriela González.
VERY IMPORTANT: DO NOT READ THE DETAILS OF TRAINING COURSES ASSISTED UNDER "aided training."
Agenda:
Unit I: Concept website - design - html and meta tags - Tools for translation and editing.
Unit II: Displaying tabs and layout views and work - Awnings, Javas and Scripts - Buttons and banners - CGI - Downloads sites and word counts.
Unit III: Images, links, graphics and animation formats - SDL Trados TagEditor.
Unit IV: Flash - web technologies - FTP - Other web file formats.
Open: April 20, 2009.
Close: November 30, 2009.
Fee: $ 500.
Start Date: 20/04/2009 Closing
Registration: 30/11/2009
TRANSLATING WEB PAGES (E-LEARNING) (688) English language course
remote e-learning
assisted training.
Teacher: Trad. Publ. Gabriela González.
VERY IMPORTANT: DO NOT READ THE DETAILS OF TRAINING COURSES ASSISTED UNDER "aided training."
Unit I: Web page
concept.
Design.
HTML tags and meta tags.
Editing and translation tools.
Unit II: What Can not I translate
from a web page?
How to obtain the material to translate.
Word Count.
Graphic formats.
Unit III:
Image treatment.
Hypertext links.
Translating with SDL Trados Workbench and TagEditor.
Configurations to consider when using TagEditor:
Options and segment-level check .
Autotext in TagEditor.
Complements (Plug-ins) Document level check.
Viewing the translated webpage.
Unit IV:
Other web file extensions: xml and sgml.
Configuring the .ini file using tageditor.
Dreamweaver and Flash.
SWFDecompiler.
Apertura: 20 de abril de 2009.
Cierre: 30 de noviembre de 2009.
Arancel: $ 500.
Fecha de Inicio: 20/04/2009
Registration Close: 30/11/2009
WORD FOR TRANSLATORS (E-LEARNING) (689)
Course e-learning distance assisted training.
Teacher: Trad. Publ. Gabriela González.
VERY IMPORTANT: DO NOT READ THE DETAILS OF TRAINING COURSES ASSISTED UNDER "aided training."
Agenda:
Microsoft Word for translators.
Track Changes. Turning
markups.
Track Changes and Comments.
not see the toolbar in Word. Underline
spelling and grammar.
Smart Tags.
Hide and display text.
Features hidden.
I do not want that symbol!
Thesaurus. Drawing a line
. Formats
rebels.
buttons larger. Zoom
faster.
Printing multiple pages on one.
Search words without the search box. Optimization
paste format. Move paragraphs
safer.
SpellCheck: add words.
Find and Replace.
Copy and paste: copy format.
AutoText. AutoCorrect: pros and cons.
smart quotes or quotes.
The 4 "shortcuts" used the most. Views
normal and print layout. SpellCheck
or yes Print Layout.
headers and footers.
Tables. Text Styles.
Saving and backups. Cross references
.
Add a bookmark. Show
markers. Identity
document.
Creating macros.
Opening: April 20, 2009.
Close: November 30, 2009.
Fee: $ 100.
Start Date: 20/04/2009 Closing
Registration: 30/11/2009
MULTITERM (E-LEARNING) (690)
English language course in e-learning distance assisted training.
Teacher: Trad. Publ. Gabriela González.
VERY IMPORTANT: DO NOT READ THE DETAILS DE LOS CURSOS DE FORMACIÓN ASISTIDA EN EL APARTADO "FORMACIÓN ASISTIDA".
Content
Unit I
Introduction to termbases terminology.
Surfing MultiTerm Interface.
Creating a new termbase.
Termbase wizard: Designing termbases.
Select template, languages, descriptive fields and properties.
Defining Entry structure.
Adding new terms manually.
Editing terms.
Searching in MultiTerm.
Unit II
Converting glossaries to MultiTerm.
Recognizing file formats after conversion.
Creating new termbases with the resulting files from conversion.
Importing terms from conversion into a new termbase.
Unit III
Extracting terms from bilingual documents to add terms to already builtup termbases ( Demo).
Optimizing the use of Multiterm.
Working with several termbases.
Simple searches using filters.
Interfacing MultiTerm with Microsoft Word, Trados, Workbench and TagEditor.
Student will practice how to:
Create new termbase from scratch.
Define entry structure to customize termbase.
Add terms and complete the descriptive fields (manually).
Convert an Excel file with Multiterm Convert.
Create a new termbase from conversion files and import terminology (automatically). Extract terminology from bilingual documents.
Import those entries into Multiterm database.
Create and define a new termbase to import the terms resulting from the extraction of a monolingual document. Adding and editing Terms
while translating from Word, TagEditor, and Workbench (Concordance, Mantainance and Workbench source box).
Every module includes a tutorial and documents to practice.
Opening: April 20, 2009.
Close: November 30, 2009.
Fee: $ 300.
Start Date: 20/04/2009 Closing
Registration: 30/11/2009
