Modern Languages, Translation and Interpreting BA Honours

Course overview

This Modern Languages, Translation and Interpreting BA Honours degree focuses on developing your language skills in two languages to near-native fluency. You can choose from French, German, Portuguese and Spanish, as well as Chinese or Japanese. You'll also be equipped with specialist and in-demand skills such as translating and interpreting.

You will have the option of spending the third year of your degree abroad, so you can develop your language skills among native speakers and experience a different culture.

Alternatively, you'll have the options to undertake a Careers Placement Year in the UK or to complete your degree in 3 years without either a Year Abroad or a Careers Placement Year.

Regardless of what you choose to do, you will confirm this with us in Stage 2.

Your knowledge and skills in translation and interpreting also ensure you leave Newcastle University as a sought-after graduate with attributes highly prized by employers.

You'll become a confident linguist, ready to embark on your career as a global citizen.

Find out more about our undergraduate programmes on the School of Modern Languages website

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Your future

Studying for our degree in Modern Languages, Translation and Interpreting will open the door to a wide variety of career paths, while adding the specific skills of translation and interpreting to your portfolio.

You may decide to embark directly upon a career in translation and interpreting, or you could follow in the tracks of some graduates, and find work in areas as diverse as tourism, marketing, management, the civil service, advertising and the media, teaching and banking.

Alternatively, if you want to study translation and interpreting further, our degree is excellent preparation for a postgraduate professional qualification.

The degree aims to provide a firm foundation for a career as a freelance translator or interpreter for agencies and commercial clients in the private or public sectors, and work in international organisations.