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    Course

  • Location

    London

London Metropolitan University exists to transforms lives. We take pride in helping students reach their goals and succeed in their future careers.A globalised world has warranted a growing trend in the need for translators. This BA Translation course is of interest to students wishing to engage with all aspects of technical translation but also some aspects of literary translation. It focuses on practical work and the development of professional skills needed for a successful professional career in translation.

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London
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31 Jewry Street, EC3N 2EY

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SeptemberEnrolment now closed

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  • Translation
  • IT
  • University
  • Skills and Training

Course programme

London Met invests in you: from our purpose-built newsroom to our state-of-the-art superlab, we aim to create a stimulating and unique learning environment for our students. Our courses have received top marks from the UK's Quality Assurance Agency and many are accredited by a wide range of professional bodies. Our lecturers are leaders in their field: in the latest Research Assessment Exercise, over two-thirds of the University’s research output was judged to be world-leading, internationally excellent or internationally recognised.

We go the extra mile with our investment. We do this through our five-star promise, our pledge to connect our students with opportunities to boost their career skills. We put employability at the heart of our curriculum through helping you find placements, work experience and voluntary opportunities across a wide variety of organisations.

Course overview

This vocational course provides an excellent grounding in language, culture mediation and translation theory and practice. It will equip you with the transferable professional skills required by the translation industry and also give you a thorough knowledge of translation theories, methods and procedures.

You will also study interpreting skills and familiarise yourself with various techniques used in liaison interpreting, in business settings. This BA Translation course offers English language combined with French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Portuguese, German, Polish or Russian.

In particular cases, there also may be possibilities of learning a further foreign language outside your translation pair.

Here's a selection of translation technology software used in our courses:

  • SDL Trados Studio
  • SDL MultiTerm
  • Wordfast Anywhere
  • Crowdin - Localization Management Platform
  • Memsource - The Translation Platform

Translation

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