Master of Arts (MA) in Translation and Bilingual Communication (Full-time)

Aims

This Programme aims to provide, at the postgraduate level and with the needs of main target groups in mind, focused and vigorous training in Translation and Bilingual Communication.

Specifically, the Programme hopes to achieve the following objectives:

• To cater to the needs of students with different talents and abilities;
• To offer more vigorous and concentrated training and enabling future trainees to acquire more insightful and professional skills in translation and interpreting;
• To provide intellectual stimulation to mid-career translators and those whose work require bilingual/trilingual competence by encouraging them to reflect on their profession, develop conceptual, analytical, and linguistic skills that can further inform their work, and refine their organisational and presentational skills;
• To help takers of the Programme exercise their critical mind and appreciate better the relation between theory and practice, so that they can be more aware of and more articulate about the intricacies of bilingual communication and how they negotiate the challenges of translation;
• To provide a formal focus on new technology-based approaches to translation including translation memory, machine translation, localization and audiovisual translation;
• To make the programme available to applicants who have no knowledge of Chinese.