MA Chinese-English Translation and Professional Practice

Become a fully-fledged professional translator and equip yourself with the technological skills and strategies to succeed. This course introduces you to techniques and technology, including Machine Translation and AI, that will significantly improve your English and Chinese language competency to a higher level and develop your translation skills so you can deliver professional translation in specialised fields, such as technical, scientific literary, socio-political, legal or technical and scientific and audio-visual translation. Our training includes theories of translation, interpreting, audiovisual studies that will lay a solid foundation for further studies, as well as hands-on practice for you to become familiar with the latest technologies used by professionals in their everyday work.

Key topics include:

• Principle of Translation and Interpreting
• Translation with Transcreation and Localisation
• Technologies of Translation
• Audiovisual Translation
• Subtitling

We are 1st in UK for research impact in modern languages and linguistics (Grade Point Average, Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Additionally, we offer a variety of enriching opportunities to further your expertise:

• Weekly seminars led by pioneering academic researchers, industry experts, practitioners and professional bodies
• Opportunities to visit top translation and localisation companies, allowing you to gain insights into the industry from real-world experience
• The chance to participate in organising our annual Multilingual Conference, where you can take on various roles that suit your interests and develop transferrable professional skills

Within our Department of Language and Linguistics, we also offer supervision for PhD and MPhil students in a variety of areas, including:

• Translation studies
• Culture and communication
• Psycholinguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Computational linguistics
• Language acquisition
• Language learning and language teaching
• Language disorders
• Theoretical and descriptive linguistics

If you want a global outlook, are interested in communication, and want to study for a degree with real-world practical value in a world-class department, welcome to Essex.