2009/2010

TRANSLATION STUDIES (FRENCH)

The MA in Translation Studies (French) is a full-time programme running over 12 months from the date of first registration.

Entry Requirements
Applicants should normally have a primary degree with at least a Second Class (Grade I) Honours in French (or in languages including French). Applicants will also be required to present themselves for an interview and attain a satisfactory standard in an aptitude test to determine suitability for a place on the programme.

Programme Requirements
Part I consists of taught modules to the value of 45 credits and Part II consists of a dissertation to the value of 45 credits.

Students take 90 credits as follows:

Part I
FR6501 Theory and Methodology of Advanced Translation (15 credits)
FR6901 Research Methods in French (10 credits)
FR6502 Methodology of Simultaneous and Consecutive Interpreting and of Terminology (10 credits)
and
10 credits from the following (subject to availability):
FR6102 Language Variation and Change: The Case of French (10 credits)
FR6103 Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (10 credits)
FR6104 Sociolinguistic Approaches to Language and Gender (10 credits)
FR6105 Language Policy and Language Practice in Canada (10 credits)
FR6106 The Evolution of the French Language: Issues and Milestones (10 credits)
FR6203 Orientalism, Ethnography and the Other (10 credits)
FR6204 Contemporary French Philosophy: Theory as Vision (10 credits)
FR6205 Reading the City (10 credits)
FR6303 Marguerite Duras: L'Écriture dans tous ses états (10 credits)
FR6304 Unsettling Identities: Auto-biographical Spaces in Contemporary Writing (10 credits)
FR6305 "Lorsque le theatre se fait femme": Women Writing for the Stage in France (10 credits)
FR6402 Myth in Modern Novel (10 credits)
FR6403 French Writers in Rome (10 credits)
FR6404 "Regards Croisés": Travel Writing around France in Ireland and Ireland in France (10 credits)
FR6405 Heroes and Heroines from Aeschylus to Cixous (10 credits)

Part II
FR6599 Dissertation (45 credits)

Module descriptions are contained in the Book of Modules 2009/2010.

Examinations
Full details and regulations governing Examinations for each programme will be contained in the Marks and Standards 2010 Book and for each module in the Book of Modules 2009/2010.

See also Regulations for the Degree of MA.

Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:

• Analyse documents for translation using the methodologies taught in the programme;
• Prepare linguistic documentation for translation French-English and English-French using the methodologies taught in the programme;
• Prepare and develop personal translation documentation using the methodologies taught in the programme;
• Draft and revise translations using methods of the translation professions;
• Prepare terminological material for input into databases;
• Take notes for consecutive interpretation;
• Interpret consecutively from English into French and from French into English;
• Interpret simultaneously from English into French and from French into English;
• Upskill both in consecutive and simultaneous interpretation using the practice and revision/correction methodologies taught in the programme;
• Work as a team and to a deadline to carry out a translation for a client.