Linguistics and Translation - BA (Hons)

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Bachelor's degree

In Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Hong kong (Hong Kong)

  • Duration

    4 Years

  • Start date

    September

Characteristics

Leveraging the combined strengths of linguistics and translation to create a synergy of theories, applications and professional training; and
capitalising on advanced information and communication technologies (ICT) to prepare language professionals for digital applications across a wide range of language-related professions (e.g. machine translation/interpreting, automatic tools for text and speech processing).

Facilities

Location

Start date

Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
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11 Yuk Choi Rd, Hung Hom, Hong Kong

Start date

SeptemberEnrolment now open

About this course


To train language and knowledge professionals for our knowledge-rich and highly connected world, with a special focus on biliteracy and trilingual proficiency;
To endow our graduates with highly sophisticated communication skills, especially cultural and domain sensitivity in intercultural and corporate communication; inter-personal skills and empathy in face-to-face communication as well as over digital media; and the technological know-how to master current and future new media;
To equip our graduates with a general knowledge of underlying concepts and profession-specific literacy and skills in linguistics, speech sciences, translation and interpreting, and corporate communication; and
To equip our graduates with competence in handling data analytics for language content, and the ability to extract and distil relevant trends and information from big linguistic data to meet society's needs.

Applicants are invited to attend an interview, accompanied by a possible written test in English and Chinese, to evaluate their potential/suitability for admission to the programme, and to examine their communication skills and interest in the field of study.

With their high language proficiency and competence in technology, BALT graduates can develop careers in various professions, local and overseas, including but not limited to:

Linguistics research
Speech sciences+
Translation, interpreting
Administration and management
Education
Corporate communications
Language data analysis
Digital/social media content creation and editing
Social/cultural analysis
Editing and publishing
Civil service
Marketing and sales

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Subjects

  • Programming
  • Corporate Communication
  • Communication Training
  • Writing
  • Technology
  • English
  • Interpreting
  • Translation
  • Pragmatics
  • Literary Translation
  • Translation studies
  • Sounds
  • Meaning in Language
  • Sound Systems
  • Project in Language Studies
  • English for Advanced Academic Writing
  • Simultaneous Interpreting
  • Cognition and Brain

Course programme

Academic pathways for students to pursue:

1. Major and Minor/free Electives

2. Single Discipline Major

Compulsory Subjects (18 subjects + 3 training credits)

Introduction to Translation; Introduction to Linguistics; Work Integrated Education (WIE); Introduction to Bilingual Communication; Academic and Technical Chinese Writing; Introduction to Modern Chinese; Introduction to Interpreting; Consecutive Interpreting; Translation for Corporate Communication; Translation for the Media in the Digital Age; Programming and Data Analysis for Language Studies; Semantics: Meaning in Language; Sounds and Sound Systems of Language; Pragmatics: Language in Use; Project in Language Studies; Translation Studies, Comparative and Contrastive Studies of Chinese and English Grammar; English for Advanced Academic Writing

Elective Subjects (excluding subjects in Minor in Japanese and Minor in Korean within CBS)

Corporate Communication: Theory and Practice; Intercultural Communication in Corporate Context; Translation for Science and Technology; Translation for Legal Work; Simultaneous Interpreting; Literary Translation; Translation Criticism; Language and Society; Varieties of Chinese; Cantonese Linguistics; Fundamentals of Computational Linguistics; Syntax; Phonetics and Phonology; Corpus and Language Technology for Language Studies; Advanced Putonghua Communication Skills; Psycholinguistics; Language, Cognition and Brain; Language Acquisition; Analysis of Language Samples: Clinical Implications; Child Communication Disorders and Special Education Needs; Communication Disorders Across the Life Span; Language and Speech Production: Anatomical and Physiological Perspectives; Techniques in Language Sciences; Statistics for Language Studies; Programming Fundamentals; Data StructuresAcademic pathways for students to pursue:

1. Major and Minor/free Electives

2. Single Discipline Major

Compulsory Subjects (18 subjects + 3 training credits)

Introduction to Translation; Introduction to Linguistics; Work Integrated Education (WIE); Introduction to Bilingual Communication; Academic and Technical Chinese Writing; Introduction to Modern Chinese; Introduction to Interpreting; Consecutive Interpreting; Translation for Corporate Communication; Translation for the Media in the Digital Age; Programming and Data Analysis for Language Studies; Semantics: Meaning in Language; Sounds and Sound Systems of Language; Pragmatics: Language in Use; Project in Language Studies; Translation Studies, Comparative and Contrastive Studies of Chinese and English Grammar; English for Advanced Academic Writing

Elective Subjects (excluding subjects in Minor in Japanese and Minor in Korean within CBS)

Corporate Communication: Theory and Practice; Intercultural Communication in Corporate Context; Translation for Science and Technology; Translation for Legal Work; Simultaneous Interpreting; Literary Translation; Translation Criticism; Language and Society; Varieties of Chinese; Cantonese Linguistics; Fundamentals of Computational Linguistics; Syntax; Phonetics and Phonology; Corpus and Language Technology for Language Studies; Advanced Putonghua Communication Skills; Psycholinguistics; Language, Cognition and Brain; Language Acquisition; Analysis of Language Samples: Clinical Implications; Child Communication Disorders and Special Education Needs; Communication Disorders Across the Life Span; Language and Speech Production: Anatomical and Physiological Perspectives; Techniques in Language Sciences; Statistics for Language Studies; Programming Fundamentals; Data Structures

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Linguistics and Translation - BA (Hons)

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