The Oregon Spanish Healthcare Interpreter Training Program, offered by Oregon AHEC and the Oregon Department of Community Colleges (cascadeseast.org), is a 124-credit-hour course designed to train bilingual students to become healthcare interpreters in urban and rural areas. A majority of the courses required to complete the program are offered online, and the course comprises a combined distance learning and weekend classroom format that integrates traditional in-person lectures with the online learning environment. The Southern California School of Interpretation (interpreting.com) also offers a Medical Interpretation Program online for around $1,600. The course is also for fluent speakers of Spanish and English. For $378 per credit hour, Western Kentucky University (wku.edu/online/ug_certificates) offers a Cross Cultural Communication in Healthcare program, aimed at individuals who want to pursue a healthcare interpretation and/or translation career in addition to those interested in Language Access Service programs. The University of Massachusetts at Amherst's Translation Center (umasstranslation.com) offers online courses towards a Medical Interpreting Certificate. The medical interpretation certificate is designed to train students how to interpret for doctors, nurses and patients in a medical setting, such as a hospital. The total cost of the Medical Interpreting Certificate is $1,296 -- which breaks down to $417 for each course credit and a $45 enrollment fee.
New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies (scps.nyu.edu) offers online courses in Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpretation. NYU's online courses offer real-time lectures from professors, and aim to create a sense of community among students. Courses in legal translation and interpretation include English to French, English to Portuguese, English to Spanish, French to English, German to English and Spanish to English. NYU-SCPS online courses cost about $700 a semester for a standard 10-session course. The professional Certificate in Translation offered by NYU-SCPS requires students to take a total of six courses and pass with a grade average of B or better. The University of California at San Diego's Extension School (extension.ucsd.edu) offers online courses that count toward the Professional Certificate in Translation and Interpretation -- Spanish/English, with an option to specialize in legal translation. Eight core courses are required for the certificate with a minimum of three electives from either the Translation Skills or Interpretation Skills category. Applicants do not need a college degree to enroll in the certificate program, whose total cost is approximately $4,400, including course fees, entrance exam fees and certificate enrollment fee.
Commercial interpretation courses are also available online from New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies. Courses are offered in English to Spanish commercial translation, French to English, German to English and Spanish to English. UC San Diego's Extension School also offers a course in Business Translation for its Spanish/English certificate. The Center for Translation Studies at the University of Illinois -- Urbana-Champaign (french.uiuc.edu) offers an online Professional Development Sequence in French Translation certificate. At the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, the Department of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures offers an online Postgraduate Certificate in Translation Studies (LLC.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate). The program is completely online and is designed for students who are only able to commit to a part-time study schedule.
The International Medical Interpreters Association (imiaweb.org) maintains a comprehensive list of available medical interpreting certificates on their website, and also indicates whether these courses are available online. Online medical interpretation courses are available via the Oregon Department of Community Colleges, Southern California School of Interpretation, Western Kentucky University and Mohawk College in Ontario, among others. Also visit the American Translators Association website (atanet.org) for guidelines on becoming a fully accredited translator or interpreter.