Center for Applied Liberal Arts

Legal Translation

Topics covered in this course include birth, marriage, and death certificates, concepts and structures of contracts, the organization of companies, with emphasis on types of partnership and corporations, court systems, the judiciary, and the legal profession, and the prosecuting of civil and criminal cases. Online discussions present factual information about the civil-law and common-law approaches to the pertinent topics, as well as discussions of terminology and terminology resources. Materials for translation include contracts, articles of incorporation, minutes of meetings, summonses and complaints, petitions, motions, judgments, and orders.
Course Number
TRAN1-GC3401
Associated Degrees