The SSLMIT: history, organisation and teaching provision
The Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators (SSLMIT) was founded in 1989. Together with three other Faculties, the School is part of the Polo Scientifico-Didattico of Forlì and is a decentralised body of the University of Bologna.
The School aims to train highly-skilled professionals in the interpreting and translation fields. The School is one of the two Italian higher education institutions recognised by CIUTI - the Conference Internationale d'Instituts Universitaires de Traducteurs et Interprètes.
First-cycle degree Course
The teaching provision includes the first-cycle degree course in Applied Inter-Linguistic Communications, (class 3), lasting 3 years (this is the new title of the old degree course in Translation and Liaison Interpreting). To be admitted to the first-cycle degree course, students must pass a language proficiency test, which assesses the student's language skills in Italian and in a foreign language of his/her choice (French, English, Spanish or German). The entry test is generally held on September and no more that 180 students are admitted each year.
Second-cycle degree Courses
The School's post-graduate teaching provision includes two second-cycle degree courses each lasting 2 years: Conference Interpreting and Translation for Special Purposes and Publishing. To be admitted to the second-cycle degree courses, students must pass the relevant entry test, which is generally held in September of each year. The specific entry test aims to assess the student's language skills in Italian and two foreign languages of his/her choice (French, English, Russian, Spanish or German).
All the degree course programmes provide for the study of at least a third language: students can choose from between Arabic, Finnish, French, Japanese, English, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croat, Slovakian, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Hungarian. Starting from the academic year 2005/06, a course in Chinese is scheduled to start.
For all the courses, which are organised in 2 semesters (October to December and February to May), lecture attendance is compulsory.
Within the Erasmus programme, most of the School's students are expected to attend at least one semester at a foreign partner university.