MA Business Translation and Interpreting (Chinese-English)

Our expert staff Our staff work on highly technical translation and interpreting projects Your lecturers teach you the skills you need for professional practices, and provide demonstrations and hands-on guidance as well as support We maintain excellent student-staff ratios with capped language-specific seminars Specialist facilities Our state-of-the-art interpreting lab provides 10 booths to interpret conferences of up to 20 people, and we also have a lecture theatre with five interpreting booths to interpret lectures of up to 350 people – we are the only university in the East of England with such facilities We regularly use two multimedia language teaching labs equipped with top-of-the-range computers integrating audio-visual projectors and large screens Use specialist software such as SDL Trados Studio 2014 and MemoQ for technical translation, Avidanet Live and Black Box for Interpreting, and WinCaps Qu4ntum for Subtitling Use our professional recording studios to video record a small audience, or for presentations Weekly multilingual interpreting conferences, field trips and workshops led by internationally renowned experts from the industry Our Languages for All programme offers you the opportunity to study an additional language alongside your course at no extra cost Your future Many interpreters and translators are working in business industries in mega-cities around the world There is high demand both in China and in the international market for highly qualified translators and interpreters to work for the commercial industries Our training gives you all the tools you need to succeed as a Chinese-English translator and interpreter, oriented toward business sectors We work with the University’s Employability and Careers Centre to help you find out about further work experience, internships, placements, and voluntary opportunities Within our Department of Language and Linguistics, we also offer supervision for PhD and MPhil We...