Variant of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0 for Alternative primary groupings

• 03 - Humanities
• 16. - Indigenous and foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics
• 16.01 - Linguistic, comparative and related language studies and services

16.0103 - Language interpretation and translation

This instructional program class comprises any program that prepares individuals to be professional interpreters and/or translators of documents and data files, either from English or French into another language or languages or vice versa. These programs include courses of an intensive nature in one or more languages plus courses in subjects such as single and multiple-language interpretation, one- or two-way interpretation, simultaneous interpretation, general and literary translation, business translation, technical translation, and other specific applications of linguistic skills.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • health care interpreting
  • interpreter translator
  • language interpretation and translation
  • languages and translation
  • translation
  • translation and interpretation

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • health(51.0000)
  • legal interpretation and translation(22.0304)
  • music performance(50.0903)
  • sign language interpretation(16.1603)