Graduate students in departments other than Spanish and Portuguese who choose to take Spanish or Portuguese as one of their language requirements for the Ph.D. may sit for the translation examination that is administered once each semester.

Spring 2012

(For graduate students in other departments who must

fulfill a foreign language requirement)

Date:         Thursday, March 1st, 2012

Time:      1:00pm – 3:00pm

Place:      Romance Languages Lounge, 82-90 Wall  

              Street, 3rd Floor

Dictionary may be used.

The exam consists of two passages in Spanish

or Portuguese to be translated into English. One passage consists of expository prose; the other is a narrative prose text.

Please notify Virginia Gutierrez, Registrar at the 

Spanish and Portuguese Department (432-5439)

or by e-mail virginia.gutierrez@yale.edu.  Please do so by Friday, February 17th if you plan to take the exam.

These language translation examinations consist of the translation from Spanish to English, or from Portuguese to English, of two prose texts. One of these texts is expository (it is taken from an academic journal that entertains topics of general interest), and the other is literary. In this two-hour exam the student devotes one hour to each exercise. For students taking the Spanish translation exam, Spanish/English and Spanish-language dictionaries may be used; likewise, for students taking the Portuguese exam, Portuguese/English and Portuguese-language dictionaries are permitted. No other materials are allowed.