Gain the sought-after skills you need for a career in specialist language work on this practical and respected master’s course.
Our MA Translation and Professional Language Skills course prepares you to work as a professional linguist at a high level.
Throughout the course, you’ll develop the skills required in a number of roles within international organisations and language service providers. You’ll mostly work with the written word to provide translations and specialised language services, such as:
Through your core units, you’ll advance your editing, revision, and proofreading abilities. According to many employers and agencies, they seek these key areas of expertise in people they recruit.
You should have a bachelor’s honours degree or international equivalent, typically a 2:1 or above.
To apply for this course you should have mother tongue competence in English.
We may make an offer based on a lower grade if you can provide evidence of your suitability for the degree.
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We have an excellent reputation for training professional translators, editors and précis-writers. This course draws on that expertise and extends into new and specialised areas of language work where there is a great demand for highly trained linguists with English as their first or ‘A’ language.
Our graduates have gone on to work for the following organisations:
Year 1
Semester 1
You’ll choose 10 credits of optional units across Semester 1 and Semester 2.
Compulsory units
Optional units
Semester 2
You’ll choose 10 credits of optional units across Semester 1 and Semester 2. You can only choose one public service and commercial interpreting unit.
Compulsory units
Optional units
Summer
Compulsory units
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