Interpreting, Translation and Applied Technologies MA

All our modules are taught by experienced academics and practitioners. You'll study six modules in Semesters 1 and 2 (three per semester) and two modules in the Summer Semester. You'll take core modules to develop translation and interpreting skills and to acquire expert knowledge of applied technologies. In addition, you'll develop research skills and will learn the theoretical foundations of translation and interpreting, as well as how they underpin practice.

Translation and interpreting modules combine language-specific practice seminars in which you will work between your working languages and non-language specific sessions. The latter focus on core skills, business aspects, technologies applied to either translation or interpreting workflows and practice in multilingual projects.

You'll specialise in translation and/or interpreting between your working languages. For the academic year 2025/26, we accept applications from candidates with English as your A or B language and one or more languages from Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish, as follows:

• A language: your main language, the one you master perfectly. You work into this language from your other working language(s). 
• B language: you master this language at a very high level are able to work from it into your A language and from your A language into this language but not from other languages (C languages) into this language. 
• C language: this is a language that you understand at a very high level but don't master actively, which means that you work from this language into your A language but not into it. You may have more than one C language.

Translation practice and assessment will be from and/or into English from one or two languages. For interpreting modules, AB, ABC and ACC pathways with the languages specified above are available. In any given combination, English must be your A or your B language. 

For example, a student with German A, English B and French C will interpret both ways between English and German and from French into German (ABC pathway); a student with Spanish A and English B will interpret both ways between Spanish and English and a student with English A and Spanish and Italian C will interpret from Spanish into English and from Italian into English.

You are welcome to join translation and/or interpreting practice sessions for language directions outside your stated combination if this allows you to maintain and improve your languages. Priority for booth access and feedback will be given to students taking that specific combination as part of their chosen pathway.