Colleges offering this course
Aims and Objectives of the course:
- To develop the foundational knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to ensure good quality translation, which is: clear to the readers, faithful to the original meaning, natural for the receptor audience and acceptable to the people and the church.
- To study the meaning of biblical passages within their original historical and cultural contexts.
- To understand principles of linguistics, translation, interpretation and communication which are essential to Bible translation.
- To undertake processes for ensuring a quality translation.
- To apply the principles and methods which have been learnt to the practical task of translation.
- To attain foundation-level qualifications, after which students may progress to intermediate and advanced studies in Bible translation.
Medium of the course: The course can be taught/ examined in the following languages; English, Hindi, Bengali & Telugu.
Duration of the course: The course is an external/distance programme run by experts or qualified tutors, designed for 2 years and can be extended upto 4 years.
Academic Year & Examinations: Academic year is from January – October and Examinations are held once a year by end of October every year. All the examinations are conducted and examined by the Senate of Serampore College.