Translation - 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:
 

• Characteristics of Specialised Texts (core, 20 credits)
• Placement for Employability Skills (core, 20 credits)
• The Translator and the Specialised Text (core, 20 credits)
• The Translator and the Translation Process (core, 20 credits)
• Translation Tools and the Translator (core, 20 credits)
• Independent Research Project (alternative core, 30 credits)
• Independent Translation Project (alternative core, 30 credits)
• Subtitling (option, 20 credits)
• Translating for International Organisations (option, 20 credits)
• Website and Software Localisation (option, 20 credits)

You will be required to have:
 

• a first degree at 2:1 or above in translation, interpreting, modern languages or a related field (applications from candidates with a second class degree or from non-language based disciplines will be considered but an entry test will be required. Applicants with substantial work experience in translation but no first degree will also be considered)
• native knowledge of the native language, English 
• near-native proficiency in the first foreign language
• good command of the second foreign language (if applicable)

UK/Home Fees

Cost
£9,300 per year

Overseas Fees

Cost
£16,500 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.

This course will prepare you for different professions in the translation industry (translator, translation project manager, editor, proof-reader, localiser, subtitling). Graduates of this course have become freelance translators or in-house translators in EU and international institutions, multinational companies, news corporations, NGOs, government bodies and many more.