2014/15 Taught Postgraduate Programme Catalogue

MA Conference Interpreting and Translation Studies - Bidirectional

Total credits: 180

Entry requirements:

- A good undergraduate degree (2:1 honours or above, or the equivalent) and an excellent command of one or more foreign languages.
- Exceptionally, candidates with equivalent qualifications or experience will be considered.
- All candidates must pass an entry test in translation.
- Applicants will also need to attend an interview to assess their suitability for interpreting training.

School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:

School of Languages, Cultures and Societies

Examination board through which the programme will be considered:

School of Languages, Cultures and Societies

Programme specification:

The programme will provide linguists, from the UK and abroad, who meet the entry requirements of the programme, with the opportunity to develop the skills of professional interpreting and translating and consolidate these skills by acquiring familiarity with a wide range of issues in the field of international affairs, politics, international business and science and technology.

It will also provide an introduction to translation theory and research methods.

Such training will enable graduates to apply the skills gained at the highest level in major international, governmental and non-governmental organisations as well as in commerce, diplomacy, industry and the academic world.

Intensive 'hands-on' teaching of interpreting is geared to international practice and includes a high level of participation of practising professional conference interpreters.

Interpreting classes take place in state-of-the-art interpreting suites housed within the Language Centre, and simulated conferences in this suite comprise a major part of the training offered to students, enabling them to experience an environment as close as possible to that which they will be working in the future.

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[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment, Learning Context]

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study one of the following Interpreting Skills modules:

Candidates will be required to study one of the following 'summer project' modules:

Candidates will be required to study 15 credits from the following modules:

Candidates will be required to study 15 credits from the following modules:

- Candidates will be required to study 15 credits from the following language modules.
- Native speakers of Arabic, Chinese or Japanese may choose to translate only out of English into their mother tongue.

- Candidates may study up to 30 credits from the following optional modules.
- Candidates may not select a module from this group that they have selected in another group.

Elective modules:

Alternatively, candidates may study up to 30 credits of Discovery modules offered within the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, the Language Centre, or (with the Programme Director's agreement) elsewhere in the University.

Last updated: 29/01/2015

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