Program Overview

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Overview

Why Lancaster?

Gain the linguistic and technical skills that are sought after in specialist industries such as legal, technical or medical translation

Translate in a professional environment through a work placement, boosting your employability and expanding your industry contacts

Develop technical skills in the market leading Computer Assisted Translation tools, Trados

Explore the creative and critical possibilities in literary translation at a university renowned for its literary research

Learn from our guest speakers in the profession and literary translators in residence

With this dynamic course, you

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ll develop the linguistic and technical skills to move into a wide range of careers in translation. This could be in literary translation, or in humanitarian fields like medical and legal translation.

Translation dynamics

You’ll gain a thorough understanding of Trados Studio, a Computer Assisted Translation tool. This industry leading software is a translator’s best friend, and will allow you to manage your translation work more effectively.

If you choose to specialise in the study of literary translation, you’ll spend time looking into creative and critical possibilities that translation can offer, as well as the role of translation in art and culture – one of the research strengths of the department.

A flexible approach

We combine language-specific practice in either one or two languages in addition to English. You can specialise in translation from:

German into English

French into English

Spanish into English

English into Mandarin Chinese.

You also have the possibility of studying more than one language combination during your MA.

At Lancaster University, you have the chance to shape your study, building skills in areas of translation that are most important to you. This allows you to start shaping your career direction early in the programme, whether that’s a route into the business and legal fields, or technical translation. If you are already working in a translation role, you could use this course to advance your career and move into new avenues.

Careers

Translation is crucial to international communication and the skills you develop on this course allow you to pursue a wide range of diverse career paths. By the time you finish this course, you will have the skills needed to find work in a number of different sectors.

You may choose to pursue a career in:

International business affairs

Marketing

E-commerce

Medical translation

Legal translation

Literary translation

Technical translation

Alternatively, you might choose to further your studies to deepen your knowledge and conduct research, by working towards a PhD.

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Your department

Languages and Cultures

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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