Translation Studies

The Translation Studies course at University College Cork offers an introduction to contemporary translation theory and practice, with seminars and hands-on workshops focused on developing general and language-specific translation and intercultural communication skills.

Working individually and in groups, and supported by expert tutors, students will receive training in the key methods, strategies, processes, and tools involved in the provision of professional language services.

Through a broad range of elective modules, students of the Translation Studies course at University College Cork have the opportunity to gain specialist knowledge in diverse areas of practice and research, which they can further develop through a dedicated research piece at the end of the program.

Careers Information

Thanks to our program's focus on fostering high-level professional communication skills, graduates of the MA in Translation Studies find employment in Ireland and abroad in a broad range of fields:

• Within the language industry, working as freelancers or in-house for language service providers in a number of roles: translators, interpreters, post-editors, project managers, language specialists, localisation testers, terminologists, subtitlers, videogame localisers, etc.

• In supranational organisations (e.g. EU institutions)

• With global companies (e.g. Amazon, Apple, Facebook, etc.)

• In a wide range of related areas such as content creation, technical writing, marketing and sales, publishing, journalism, etc.

Courses include:

• Translation and Professional Communication Skills

• Contemporary Translation Theory and Practice

• Work-integrated Learning in Translation

• Translation Technologies

• Translation in Contemporary Korean Culture & Current Affairs