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The qualification holder  will be able to:

(general competences)

• autonomously learn and develop professionally,
• think in an analytical and synthetic manner which is important for understanding written and oral technical texts in foreign language,
• master research methods of interlingual studies and translatology,
• combine the methodology of intercultural studies and translatology with the methodology of another discipline, in order to obtain new research results,
• critically assess own and others’ research findings of the German and Slovenian language, German literature and intercultural components on which they are based,
• develop communication skills for a tolerant and fair professional discourse in German,
• participate in a group work in a constructive manner and participate in work among groups,
• establish the principle of autonomy and connectedness in own professional work,
• practically apply their knowledge, e.g. presentations, business correspondence in German,
• work with technical means of a modern workplace, e.g. electronic translation tools and information systems.

(subject-specific competences)

• publicly engage in encouraging a higher written and reading culture in Slovenian,
• demonstrate knowledge of the characteristics in the fields of history, culture, media, education and economy of the German-speaking area and Slovenian territory,
• demonstrate knowledge of fundamental principles and goals of the most important international organisations,
• autonomously follow current world events and put international organisations in this context,
• demonstrate knowledge of the fundamental principles of professional ethics and find meaning for ethical values in the discipline,
• demonstrate knowledge of the common professional practice and conditions for self-employment,
• demonstrate knowledge of general business communication,
• build a professional awareness and demonstrate familiarity with the role of a professional interlingual clerk and translator,
• master the standard German and Slovenian spelling and pronunciation,
• master and understand morphemic, morphological and lexical categories, demonstrate knowledge of syntactic and textual structure of both languages,
• understand word-formation, semantic and phraseological relations in the German and Slovenian language from the point of view of modern theoretical approaches in linguistics,
• demonstrate knowledge of older and modern flows of the English and Slovenian literature,
• independently follow current linguistic and literary phenomena, and put them in the context of already acquired knowledge of both languages,
• perform a contrastive analysis of texts and phenomena on the basis of the previously acquired knowledge of the stated fields from an intercultural point of view,
• translate less complex texts from Slovenian to German on the basis of functional approach,
• translate medium complex texts from various fields from German to Slovenian on the basis of functional and expressive approaches,
• offer arguments for possible translations in the language pair German–Slovenian from the point of view of translatologic and theoretical models,
• search and use parallel texts,
• create alternative translations,
• demonstrate knowledge of the basic techniques of consecutive, simultaneous and whispered interpreting,
• demonstrate knowledge of the technique for making written notes in the consecutive interpreting,
• perform consecutive, simultaneous and whispered interpreting of less complex texts,
• make glossaries,
• use electronic accessories and manuals.