Modern Languages (Spanish and French) Honours Baccalaureate

Baccalaureate Honours or Specialized in Modern Languages ( Spanish and French) ?

Which Online or Distance University provides the BEST program ?

Could it be related to Translation ( English-Spanish, English-French) ?

Thanks to all !

 

Translation Bacc. degree made for distance learning

It seems there is no Distance or Online College/University offering a Translation Baccalaureate degree, English-Spanish ?

 

The Univesity of London has Bachelors degree programs in both French and Spanish. I don't know that they're the best (that's what you asked, maybe that's why nobody answered).

http://www.londonexternal.ac.uk/prospective_students/undergraduate/index.php

 

Not necessarily the best but among the good !

I am sorry if I misstated what I am really looking for ; lesson learned. What I meant to say is a Translation Bacc. program degree that is respected and effective.
Thanks for singling the awkwardly phrased request

 

Translation program

The University of London Bachelors degree seems an excellent one ; but I want a Translation program , English-Spanish with a strong bent on Business text and/or Newspaper text , not Literature texts.

 

At the Baccalaureate level The UK Open University has many language-related degrees and courses including their open BA where you can choose the courses that best fit your needs:
Language degrees

University of Portsmouth has a MA degree in translation with french and spanish (& other languages):
MA Translation Studies

If I may give you some advice, it might be better at the Baccalaureate level to learn extremely well the languages you want to specialize in and focus on translation studies at the master level.

 

If you're interested/able to study in french you could also look at the baccalaureate distance degree:
Licence en Langues étrangères appliquées
Universite Paris 10 Nanterre
Degree PDF

Tuition is about 300EUR/year, you shouldn't have any problem transferring it to a european/canadian/US university to continue with a masters degree.

If you have any experience you can also consider getting a french degree through VAE.

 

Master or Baccalaureate for practical translation

You seem to know well what you are talking about ( translation studies ?).

But , paradoxically, this is what I found at the University of Ottawa ( Canada) on their Master in Translation :

http://www.etudesup.uottawa.ca/Default.aspx?tabid=1727&monControl=Renseignements&ProgId=609

Can you elaborate on that ?

 

Thank you for this solid piece of information , you are a godsend !

But, are you serious when you say 300 euros per year ?

Can you also explain what is VAE ?

 

I occasionally work as an English-French Translator and get to meet a number of professional translators/interpreters.

The Translation MA at University of Ottawa seems like a solid program. They also seem to have translation baccalaureate degrees in the languages you want. You could probably get your BA and MA there.

Concerning the L.E.A (Licence en Langues étrangères appliquées) at Université Paris 10 Nanterre, the price listed on the website is 320 EUR per year. The majority of french public universities do not charge more than 500 EUR/year for any given program and if you can show that you make very little money the tuition goes down to 0 EUR.

The only downside to this degree is that you have to come in june to Paris for the exam session (usually a week) and again in september if you messed up and would like to redo an exam (rattrapage). This may or may not be a problem for you, there are a number of low-cost airlines between Canada and France (350-500 EUR A/R).

You could also ask if Université Paris 10 has any exchange agreements with universities in Canada (check Concordia, McGill), this way you could do your exams there.

Finally VAE (Validation des Acquis de l'Expérience) is a process that can help you get credit or a full degree at any french university, if you can show that your work experience is equivalent to the degree. The VAE webpage for Université Paris 10 Nanterre is here.

 

Valuable information offered on Languages Degrees !

I wish I knew all this 10 years ago but IT IS NEVER TOO LATE to do the right thing !

You have rendered a tremendous service to me , certainly, and to all other subscribers to this forum and you must be congratulated for this.

I wonder if a tradition should start to acknowledge contributors like you who provide an important service to present and future forum readers.

Thanks !

 

Finally VAE (Validation des Acquis de l'Expérience) is a process that can help you get credit or a full degree at any french university, if you can show that your work experience is equivalent to the degree. The VAE webpage for Université Paris 10 Nanterre is here.[/QUOTE]


Would the VAE be able to validate work experience and academic work towards a MA in Translation when the two working languages are English/Spanish?
Or it has to be a combination has to include French?

 

Thanks vnazaire but I'm not that big of a contributor on this excellent forum.
I do hope that you find success towards becoming a translator

Concerning mateo's question, it really depends on the requirement of the universities. Most require french to be one of the working languages, some don't. However you will need some french to go through the VAE process (answer questions on what you know...). In any case you need to find a degree that corresponds to what you know at any french university, you can then start the VAE process at that university.

 

Universite Parix X Admission Deadline

The French seem to be VERY STRICT and zealous.

I checked with the Distance Education part of Universite Paris X for their Distance Education L E A Admission.

I was told in very clear terms that if I was not a European resident the deadline had already passed to apply for admission to their once a year Fall entrance for the university academic year 2009-2010 as they accept requests for admission for that year ONLY during the period of December 1 , 2008 to January 15 2009; in other words, EIGHT MONTHS before the start of classes.

Very rigid for a DISTANCE education program.

 

Université Paris X receives a very important number of international applications but that does seem really early for a deadline.
If I were you I would send an application anyway stating that you don't need any visa documents. Most of the time people that answer e-mails and phone don't really know your situation and just say no.

After a search for distance Ed L.E.A, I also came up with this one:

Université de Toulouse

And this following page has most of the Distance Ed language degrees available in France (including L.E.A).
TELESUP

Info:
L1= first year of Licence
L2=...
L3= Last year of licence
M1= First year of master's...
D.U = Diplome d'université

Hope it works out.

 

This is a better link for TELESUP

 

Hope re-ignited !

I am re-energized by these new links to push for the French L.E.A. studies.

Yes, I will go ahead with a new energy to pursue these avenues for study.

Thank you again for your efforts.

 

Thanks again for helping , but it seems it's a GENERAL approach by ALL French Distance universities.
Universite de Toulouse also gave a Deadline of January 31 for a series of countries including Canada.
Apparently, it would have nothing to do with a question of Visa but of Administrative approach for their own " good " reasons.
Here is the text taken from their website , same as Universite Paris

http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/35479369/0/fiche___pagelibre/

It is VERY clear and does not seem to be concerned with Visas.

I will try to phone them directly and find out .

Thanks anyway for looking up for more outlets.