MA Translation and Intercultural Studies at University of Bristol

This interdisciplinary MA programme explores how humans communicate across linguistic, cultural, and societal difference. Crossing the fields of literary, media, technology, and accessibility studies, the programme allows you to develop deep disciplinary knowledge and skills alongside an ability to recognise the value of interdisciplinary approaches, and to use them to design your own research projects. A balance of individual and group work, combined with feedback from lecturers and peers, will allow you to grow in confidence as a transcultural thinker and communicator.

Faculty: Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences  |  Department: School of Modern Languages  |  Duration: One year full-time, Two years part-time  |  Study mode: full-time, part-time  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Bristol, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

On a full-time schedule, you will take the three mandatory core units of Translation Practice and Analysis (Multilingual); Research Methods in Translation and Interdisciplinary Studies; and Language, Ethics, and Communication in Teaching Block 1. Through optional unit choices taken in Teaching Block 2, you may choose to follow one of three pathways to be specified on your degree certificate: Literary Translation - for those interested in practice-based work in translating literary texts and in the academic study of areas such as literature, publishing, and translation theory. Media and Accessibility - for those seeking to specialise in translation for accessibility in media beyond the written text, through the practice and exploration of academic and applied areas such as disability studies, subtitling, and audio description.

Career pathways

Professionals achieve better results when they pay attention to the language they use in exchanges with their stakeholders; graduates of this programme will enable their clients to make these improvements, across sectors and domains and especially around higher-order decisions. It is clear that recent technological changes have not made multi-stakeholder communication more seamless.

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