Business and Public Service Interpreting and Translation Studies MA

at University of Leeds

Throughout the year you’ll be introduced to the key methods and approaches in translation studies in a core module. In your first semester you’ll also begin to develop interpreting skills and work on specialised translation in your chosen languages. You may continue with translation in the following semester, while you’ll build on your interpreting skills by practising simultaneous and liaison.
 

In either semester, you can choose optional modules on topics like public speaking and genre analysis in translation. You’ll also complete a summer project by the end of the course in September, which could be either a dissertation or two extended pieces of translation work.
 

The Business and Public Service Interpreting course offers AB language pathway training. In your interpreting modules (including business interpreting and public service interpreting), you will be trained to interpret both ways between Chinese and English.

Modules

Year 1

Compulsory modules

• Methods and Approaches in Translation Studies    
• Public Service Interpreting    
• Simultaneous Interpreting: Chinese    
• Interpreting Skills: Consecutive and Simultaneous    
• Retour Interpreting: Consecutive    
• Business Interpreting    
• Advanced Retour Interpreting: Simultaneous    

A bachelor degree with a 2:1 (Hons). We welcome applicants from a diverse range of subject disciplines. Applicants are required to have an excellent command of English and one or more foreign languages. Applicants will be interviewed and undertake translation tests in their chosen language/s. If you do not have a degree, equivalent experience will be considered.

English language requirements

IELTS 7.0 overall, with no less than 6.5 in Reading and Writing and 7.5 in Speaking and Listening. 
 

Documents and information you'll need
 

You must upload the following documents before we are able to assess your application:

• Official degree certificate(s) and transcript of marks or enrolment certificate and partial transcript of marks
• Evidence of English language proficiency
• Translation Test(s)
• - Submit both “Chinese into English” and “English into Chinese” translation tests.
   

Fees

• UK: £11,250 (total)
• International: £21,750 (total)
   

Postgraduate qualifications from the Centre for Translation Studies are prestigious and respected. They equip you with valuable skills to succeed in a thriving and competitive industry, as well as advanced communication, research, IT and analytical skills.
 

Graduates from our interpreting programmes are working in some of the world’s leading government bodies, media organisations, NGOs, private companies and international political organisations. These include the BBC, UN, EU, World Bank, World Trade Organization, SAP and translation companies such as thebigword and SDL.