Interpreting - MA

at London Metropolitan University

Modular structure

The modules listed below are for the academic year 2022/23 and represent the course modules at this time. Modules and module details (including, but not limited to, location and time) are subject to change over time.

Year 1 modules include:
 

• Consecutive interpreting (A into English or C2 into English) (core, 20 credits)
• Consecutive interpreting (English into A, or C1 into English) (core, 20 credits)
• Interpreting Theory and Interpreting Assignment Preparation Strategies (core, 20 credits)
• Public Service Interpreting (core, 20 credits)
• Simultaneous interpreting (A<>English , or C1 and C2 into English) (core, 20 credits)
• The Interpreter's Professional Environment (core, 20 credits)
• MA Research Project (option, 60 credits)

You will be required to have:
 

• a 2.1 first degree or a 2.2 with professional experience in interpreting (candidates with substantial experience as a professional interpreter but no degree will also be considered)
• certificate and diploma-level English and one other language, or MA level English and one or two other language(s)
• near-native proficiency in your first foreign language (language B) and a good command of your second foreign language (language C)
• a very good command of English with a Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE): Grade AM

Application forms are processed by the admissions tutor. Once you've demonstrated that you match the entry criteria, you'll be invited to London Metropolitan University to attend the entrance aptitude test. For international students, the test can be done remotely.

The entrance aptitude test is free and runs on Fridays between 10am and 1pm twice a month. It includes:
 

• translations into and from English
• presentations in the various language combinations
• consecutive interpreting into the A language (mother tongue)
• essay writing
• an interview with the admissions tutor and interpreting lecturers

UK/Home Fees

Cost
£11,500 per year

Overseas Fees

Cost
£17,000 per year

Please note, in addition to the tuition fee there may be additional costs for things like equipment, materials, printing, textbooks, trips or professional body fees.

Additionally, there may be other activities that are not formally part of your course and not required to complete your course, but which you may find helpful (for example, optional field trips). The costs of these are additional to your tuition fee and the fees set out above and will be notified when the activity is being arranged.

Career prospects for graduates are excellent, with many proceeding to work as in-house or freelance interpreters and typically finding positions in translation and interpreting agencies; international, European and national organisations and bodies; local authorities, hospitals, the police, immigration services and refugee and asylum organisations.