History
- Date
- Event
- Late 1970s -
early 1980s - TSC and UTPA/Brownsville offered graduate topics courses in Spanish Translation and Interpreting.
- Late 1990s
- An Associate of Arts in Spanish Translation degree was launched.
- Early 2000s
- UTB/TSC students were given the opportunity to earn a Bachelor’s degree in Spanish with a minor in Translation and Interpreting.
- 2005
- The UTB/TSC Department of Modern Languages established the Office of Translation and Interpreting.
- 2007
- UTB/TSC began to offer a graduate diploma in Translation Studies referred to as the “Diplomate.”
- 2007
- $442,837 FIPSE grant awarded to UTPA for the development of an undergraduate program in Medical Spanish, with an emphasis in Healthcare Interpreting.
- 2009
- Approval from the University of Texas System to launch its B.A. in Spanish Translation and Interpreting in the Fall of the same year.
- 2009
- $299,566 FIPSE grant awarded for the development of online graduate courses with aims to constitute a future MA degree in Spanish Translation and Interpreting.
- 2010
- The only MA degree in the State of Texas in Spanish Translation and Interpreting began its offering. This was also the only such program in the nation offered on a 100% online basis (it was soon followed by a handful of programs elsewhere.)
- 2011
- Undergraduate Certificate in Medical Interpreting - launched.
- 2012
- The first and only 100% online Graduate Certificate in Court Interpreting in the nation was launched.
- 2016
- Three additional, fully online graduate certificates in Healthcare Interpreting, Localization and Audiovisual Translation, and Literary Translation started.