Posting Reason:
New Position
Location:
Main Campus
Academic Period:
2027 Winter Semester
Faculty:
Faculté des arts / Faculty of Arts
Academic Unit:
École de traduction et d’interprétation \\ School of Translation and Interpretation
Course Title:
Translation specialization II
Course Code:
TRA5136
Section:
B
Course Description:
Assessing needs and producing fit-for-purpose documents in a specialized sub-field in high demand. Identifying, evaluating and using domain-specific resources for knowledge acquisition and text production, with and without computer tools. Adapting texts for key groups in the domain. This course may be taken twice in different subject fields.
Posting limited to:
Professeur à temps-partiel régulier / Regular Part-Time Professor
Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD):
2026/06/13
Applications must be received BEFORE (YYYY/MM/DD):
2026/07/14
Expected Enrolment:
20
Approval date:
2026/06/13
Number of credits:
3
Work Hours:
39
Hourly Rate:
Enseignement / Teaching: $239.47 (2024-2025)
The academic year starts on September 1 and ends on August 31.
These rates do not included vacation pay nor statutory pay.
These rates will be applied until a new collective agreement is ratified. Retro will be paid after the ratification.
Course type:
D
Posting type:
Régulier / Regular
Language of instruction:
Anglais | English
Competence in second language:
Active
Course Schedule:
Vendredi | Friday 8:30-11:30 - -
Requirements:
Qualifications:
- Professional-level language skills in English(active) and French (passive).
- Master’s degree in Translation or Translation Studies, membership in a recognized association or order of professional translators in the French to English language combination, and/or equivalent academic and professional experience.
- Extensive professional experience asa French to English legal translator in a Canadian context.
- University-level teaching experience anduniversity-level training in Laware assets
Duties:
- Deliver lectures and manage classroom activities and assessments mainly in English, occasionally in French.
- Build and maintain a site for the course in the university’s learning management system.
- Integrate relevant theoretical, conceptual and terminological content in the field of Law in Canada with instruction on translation. Select source texts appropriate to the levels of students and course learning outcomes.
- Provide detailed feedback and suggestions in translation-oriented exercises and assessments to help students develop translation and critical thinking skills.
- Integrate discussions of and/or exercises with appropriate technological tools in the course content, with reference to selected technologies and resources provided by the School.
- Coordinate with the Chair/Program Coordinator and colleagues to maintain program learning outcomes and coherence, while maintaining academic freedom
Additional Information and/or Comments:
Web Conference
An acceptable level of education and/or experience could be viewed as being equivalent to the educational required and/or demonstrated experience. If you are invited to continue the selection process, please notify us of any adaptive measures you might require. Information you send us will be handled respectfully and in complete confidence. Employees are required under provincial law to successfully complete all mandatory legislated training. The list of training may be modified by provincial law.
The hiring process will be governed by the current APTPUO collective agreements; you can click here for the main unit , here for the OLBI unit , or here for the Toronto/Windsor unit to find out more.
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