BA in Translation Media And Modern Language With A Year Abroad

This course combines degree level learning of French, Spanish or Japanese language with the study of translation issues and media in today s fast-changing world. Alongside your chosen language you ll have the opportunity to choose from a range of specialist modules in culture, society, translation and media. You ll spend your third year abroad at a university in an appropriate country where your honours language is spoken. In translation competence modules you ll cover the theory and technique of translating, and questions of style and register in a range of specialised areas. In your translation issues modules, which deal with issues associated with globalisation, you ll be looking at various translation types. These include the transposition of text between languages, media and genres, multilingual websites or IT-mediated texts, film subtitles and theatre.