Undergraduate Translating and Interpreting 2024-2025

This course will introduce students to the key concepts of translation and interpreting and to the metalanguage of both disciplines.

This course will explore and examine the different ways in which we, as translators and interpreters, work with texts in our professional lives. It will consider what is meant by a “text”, and deal with the many different varieties of text and their individual challenges for the translator, as well as allow students to develop strategies for dealing with these challenges when they face them.

This course enables students to gain an insight into the theoretical framework of translation and of interpreting.

This course introduces the skills of liaison interpreting, develops confidence in conversation management and performance evaluation as well as students´ research and documentation skills.

It also provides opportunities for students to practice intercultural mediation through liaison interpreting in a structured and supported manner.

This second-year French language course which runs in the second half-session is only open to students who have followed Advanced French Language 1 with Translation. It will improve their written, oral and aural skills, and provide for further development of student’s translation skills.

This course follows Spanish Language 4 with Translation and aims to prepare non beginners intending Honours students of Spanish and Latin American Studies for their compulsory period abroad in a Spanish-speaking country. 

The course will develop further Spanish language skills, expanding on the vocabulary and introducing formal documents and letters. Classes on grammatical and linguistic analysis will contribute to the development of both sets of skills. In addition students will complete a structured self learning programme of vocabulary and grammatical reinforcement study. 

The course gives students an opportunity to take up a work placement in a native speaking country of the foreign language they study. Students’ request of taking up such a placement is subject to approval of the School.

The course aims to encourage students to examine critically issues relating to the cultural, political, economic and social environment in which they are living during their period of residence abroad. This course will extend students’ cultural and linguistic awareness and provide them with an opportunity to conduct their own research.

The course aims to encourage students to examine critically issues relating to the cultural, political, economic and social environment in which they are living during their period of residence abroad. This course will extend students’ cultural and linguistic awareness and provide them with an opportunity to conduct their own research.

The Dissertation will enable students to research, plan, structure and coherently present a sustained piece of writing; It will also enable students to acquire the scholarly and academic skills needed to present their findings in the appropriate forms.

The Extended Translation will give students the opportunity to translate a lengthy, (semi-)specialised text. Students will also have to write a commentary, in which the analyse translation problems and present the solutions they have found to them. In addition, students compile a translator’s glossary and present a bibliography of sources consulted. Students may choose to translate from French/ German/ Spanish into English or vice versa.

This course will build up on the skills practised in Year 2.  

• Note-taking 
• Memory/analytical skills – active listening 
• Protocol 

• Clarification/explanation/Repetition  
• Triadic position  

• Terminology  
• Linguistic skills