İngilizce Mütercim ve Tercümanlık Lisans Diploması

ISCO 08

ISCO 08

• To educate professionals who are well-versed in translation and translation studies; capable of communicating effectively in both Turkish and English and have comprehensive world knowledge besides linguistic and textual skills.
• To equip students with advanced translation and interpreting skills.
• To infuse students with the ethical principles and values of translation profession.
• To provide students with the essential research skills for translation process.
• To improve students’ critical and creative thinking, problem solving and analysis-synthesis-assessment skills.
• To raise translators capable of performing textual analysis, transfer and text generation stages in translation process according to the purpose of translation.
• To ensure students to be acquainted and keep up with the approaches, theories, latest developments and technologies in translation studies as well as the translation norms in Turkish society.
• To provide students various competences on editorship, language/culture counseling, technical writership, project management etc., besides being a translator.

Learning environment consists of formal education. Besides, professional training is provided in laboratories and workshops within higher education institutions or as internships or workplace training in the sector.

• The student has a firm grasp on Turkish and English cultures as well as a world knowledge at national and international levels.
• The student has an advanced command of Turkish and English languages to use in any communicative situation of written and spoken medium.
• The student has a translation oriented terminology and specialized knowledge in literary, scientific or technical field which she/he chooses to work in.
• The student has a good knowledge of discussions, approaches and theories in the fields of translation and Translation Studies.
• The student has a high level of professional knowledge, translation competence and translational culture at both national and international levels.
• The student can translate a written, oral or audio-visual text in accordance with the client's needs, textual-linguistic requirements, conditions of text-reception, specific jargon of the related field and local register.
• Approaching a finished translation from a critical perspective, the student can evaluate its suitability in terms of the qualities of the source text and the skopos of the target text.
• The student can handle translation project management and work in harmony with the other members of a project in teamwork.
• The student can do the necessary research during the translation process.
• The student can do a monolingual or multilingual terminology study in a field and use the information technologies related to the field of translation.
• With the acquired translation competence, the student can realize the text-analysis, transfer and text-production phases of the translation process according to the skopos of the translation.
• The student can identify translation problems during the process, find creative solutions to them; and thus, produce skopos-oriented, functional target texts.
• The student follows closely national and international developments in translation and Translation Studies and being aware of translation norms, develops his/her professional knowledge and skills.
• The student can use translation technologies, translation memories and translation-oriented software during translation process.

Students have the key competencies listed below.

• Literacy competency
• Multilingual proficiency
• Mathematical competence and competence in science, technology and engineering
• Digital competence
• Personal, social and learning to learn competence
• Civic competence
• Entrepreneurial competence
• Cultural awareness and expression competence

The academic standings of the students of English Translation and Interpretation Department is determined with regard to the Regulations of Haliç University on Associate Degree and Undergraduate Education.
(1) Final grade refers to the equivalent of raw final grade in 4.00 grading system specified by reckoning students’ studies in a half year/year and their mid-term/final exam grades based on the prevenient weights; apart from single course, grade-increase and exemption exams. 
(2) Relative or absolute evaluation systems are used to calculate students’ final grades. The type of evaluation system is designated by the concerned Board of Directors before the beginning of an academic year. The Equivalence Table issued by the Council of Higher Education is utilized for the equivalence between 4.00 and 100 grading systems. 
(3) On the purpose of success evaluation in a course; mid-term exams, additional exams, trainings in fields and working places, practices, assignments, projects, workshops, seminars, class attendance, laboratory and other relevant studies in a mid-term comprise 40% of the course evaluation score. The instructor of the relevant course announces mid-term study types and the contributions of these studies and final exam grades to the final grade in the course and proclaims all the mid-term studies and final exam grades to the students.
(4) In absolute evaluation system, academic ranking is determined for raw academic rankings according to the absolute ranges laid down in this Directive. However, in relative evaluation system, academic ranking is ascertained based upon average raw academic rankings and their statistical distribution. 
(5) Assessment and evaluation principles of relative and absolute evaluation systems, provisions and limitations of final grade calculations in the relative evaluation system and academic success levels are defined by the Senate and published on the website of University. 
(6) In both evaluation systems, the students, who do not take a final or re-sit examination of a course and who has not received 40 points out of 100 in the aforesaid examinations; fails the course. 

(7) The point and letter equivalences of academic ranking levels in the absolute evaluation system is given below: Final Grade Letter Grade Meaning Grade Range 4.00 AA Excellent 90-100 3.50 BA Very Good 80-89 3.00 BB Good 70-79 2.50 CB Fair 65-69 2.00 Acceptable 60-64 1.50 DC Partially Acceptable 55-59 1.00 DD Partially Acceptable 50-54 0.00 FF Fail 0-49 0.00 NA Not Attended 0 
(8) Apart from the final grades in Article 7, students’ academic success level in a course is determined by use of nonnumeric expressions as shown below:

a) NA (Not Attended): It is given for the courses which students have failed due to absence and treated as FF grade for credit courses and U grade for non-credit courses.

b) I (Incomplete): It is given when students are not able to complete necessary course studies such as internship, project, assignment, laboratory experiments etc., even though they pass the course. It is mandatory to give a grade to those students who have received I grade, when they make up their incomplete studies in 15 days after the exam period. Otherwise, this grade turns into FF grade.

c) S (Satisfactory): It is given to the students who have successfully completed their internships and credit courses.

ç) T (Transfer/Exempt): It is given for the courses which had been taken in another higher education institution and accepted as exempt when its accreditation was approved by the concerned board of directors.

d) W (Withdrawal): It is given for the courses from which students have withdrawn. e) P (Passing): It is given when students still attend non-credit courses which expand more than one semester. 

(9) The letter grades and coefficients mentioned in this Article applies for students’ course accreditation or evaluation of numeric grades taken in another higher education institution. 
(10) A student who receives one of AA, BA, BB, CB and CC is regarded as successful in the relevant course.

With the objective to monitor the quality of higher education programs:

• CoHE is responsible for planning, organizing, managing and supervising education, training and other activities in higher education institutions.

• "University Monitoring and Evaluation Reports" of higher education institutions, prepared within the framework of the criteria determined by CoHE, are published annually. Reports prepared according to these reports, containing quantitative and qualitative evaluations for higher education institutions, are shared with the public by CoHE.

• The "Foundation Higher Education Institutions Report", which includes academic, administrative, and financial data of foundation higher education institutions, is published annually by CoHE. These reports, which include quantitative and qualitative evaluations of foundation higher education institutions, are shared with the public by CoHE. Quality assurance of undergraduate programs in higher education is provided according to the "Procedures and Principles for Providing Quality Assurance of Higher Education Diploma Programs":

1. Creation and Approval of Curriculum: CoHE determines the minimum standards and criteria required to open undergraduate departments and programs in higher education institutions.

1.1. The curriculum of undergraduate programs in higher education institutions and the learning outcomes that each program will bring to the student are determined by the senates of higher education institutions under the basic principles determined by CoHE on these issues.

1.2. Higher education institutions implement the curriculum of National Core Education Programs with the approval of CoHE after being accepted by the relevant Deans Council.

2. Measurement-Evaluation: How to measure and evaluate the learning outcomes that each undergraduate program will provide to the student is carried out in accordance with the teaching and examination regulations prepared by higher education institutions in accordance with the basic principles determined by CoHE on these issues.

3. Certification: Students enrolled in undergraduate programs if they successfully complete the course credits and other obligations determined by higher education institutions; receives a bachelor's degree.

4. Self-Evaluation-External Evaluation: In the context of continuous monitoring, higher education institutions enter the "Institution Internal Evaluation Reports" of the previous year into the Information System prepared by Turkish Higher Education Quality Council (THEQC) at the beginning of each year. The "Institutional Feedback Report" prepared by THEQC regarding the external evaluation of higher education institutions is shared with the public. In addition, accreditation decisions made by accreditation bodies authorized or recognized by 

THEQC also show that the quality assurance of the qualifications of the programs is ensured. It carries out regular review activities regarding the qualifications determined in accordance with the THEQC legislation.

Accreditation Body Name; Association for Curriculum Evaluation and Accreditation of Science, Literature, Science-Literature, Language and History-Geography Faculties (FEDEK)

• Applicant students for the Department of English Translation and Interpretation are required to pass central placement exam held by OSYM and to not be registered in any higher education institution. 
• The candidates entitled to be placed with their DİL-1 scores and order of choice can make their final registration by applying the concerned department of University in person or through the medium of their proxies between the registration dates assigned by OSYM and the University. 
• Original documents or copies certified by the University are accepted for registration. 
• Associate and undergraduate degree programs accept students according to the exam held by the Center for Evaluation, Selection And Placement (OSYM) or the decisions of the Council Of Higher Education (CoHE).

Our graduates are able to study for master’s degree in translation studies or other relevant fields.

1. Higher Education Law No. 2547

1.1. Regulation on the Principles of Transfer Between Associate and Undergraduate Programs in Higher Education Institutions, Double Major, Minor and Inter-Institutional Credit Transfer

1.2. Regulation on the Continuation of Undergraduate Education for Graduates of Vocational Schools and Open Education Associate Degree Programs

2. Higher Education Law No. 2547 (Additional Article-35)

2.1. Higher Education Quality Assurance and Higher Education Quality Board Regulation

Qualification is continuous