| Useful Links to Interpreter Education and Training
 The American Translation Association has a publication called Translation and Interpretation Programs in North America, which lists all the training institutions, public and private, that offer individual classes or full programs in translation and interpretation.
Some Community Colleges are beginning to offer translation and interpretation courses in Spanish, including healthcare interpretation. Contact your local CC and check their offerings.
Interpreter Education Resources
www.bu.edu/professional/programs/certificate/Interpreter/index.html
Boston University offers certificate programs in legal and medical interpretation for people able to speak, read, and write English and Spanish or English and Portuguese fluently.
www.ccde.umb.edu/certificates/spanishcourt/index.html
University
of Massachusetts, Boston offers an intensive six-credit undergraduate certificate program especially designed to provide qualified applicants with a comprehensive introduction to professional court interpretation.
It also offers at Amherst a program to certify qualified students in general language interpretation in French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, or Portuguese.
ncrtrp@pop.u.arizona.edu
Contact the Agnese Haury Institute for Court Interpretation of the National Center for Interpretation at this email address or call them at (850) 621-3615. They offer intensive 3-week courses in Spanish only, every July at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
www.web.arizona.edu/~ncitrp/
The National Center for interpretation also offers FCICE Test preparation classes. Interpretation seminars, medical interpreter training, and translators seminars and workshops.
www.uncc.edu/langweb/A/index.htm
The Department of Languages and Culture Studies at UNC Charlotte offers an undergraduate Certificate in Translating (CT) in English French, German, or Spanish. At the graduate level, it offers a Master of Arts in Spanish.
www.miis.edu/index.htm
The Monterrey Institute of International Studies offers master-level programs in interpretation. It has eliminated its court-specific interpreting program.
www.cel.sfsu.edu/catpro/home.cfm?selection=Ici
The San Francisco State University, College of Extended Learning offers the only court-specific interpreting training program in Northern California.
www.interpreting.com
The Southern California School of Interpretation, Santa Fe Springs, offers 55-60 hrs programs in interpretation and translation for legal and health venues. Spanish/English.
California State University, Long Beach, offers a B.A. program in translation and interpretation in multiple venues. Spanish only.
www.calstatela.edu/exed.certificate/legaltrans.htm
California State University, Los Angeles offers a program of 430 hours of translation and interpretation for legal and medical venues. Certificate in legal interpretation and translation. Spanish only.
Interpreter & Translator
Certification and Testing
The Consortium for State Court Interpreter Certification is a multi-state partnership dedicated to developing court interpreter proficiency tests, making tests available to member states, and regulating the use of tests. The member states are: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Illinois/Cook County, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon,
Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.
www.ncsconline.org/D_Research/CourtInterp/CICourtConsort.html
There is reciprocity among most states, an interpreter who is certified in one state can work in most other states without having to take the Certification test in that state (with some restrictions). The only states that require that the interpreters take the test in that state are California and Washington. At this time, there is no certification process in Alaska, Hawaii, Illinois, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
http://www.uscourts.gov/interpretprog/interp_prog.html
Federal Court Interpreter Program
http://www.cps.ca.gov/fcice%2Dspanish/
Federal Court Interpreter Certification Examination process
http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/programs/courtinterpreters/
The California Court Interpreters Program
http://www.courts.state.co.us/chs/hr/interpreters/courtinterpreterpage.htm
Colorado Court Interpreter Certification Program.
Court Interpreter Certification Testing in Michigan: Testing in Spanish will be held on September 14 and 15, 2006. For more information, contact Sharon Fox at
fox@courts.mi.gov.
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