The Translation MA equips professional translators for creative, cultural, performative, and literary markets. Its interdisciplinary make-up offers unrivalled access to diverse disciplines and language experts, blending practical techniques with critical theory across written, spoken, and semiotic modes. You will master translating for specific audiences, processing digital information, mediating interculturally, and leveraging AI tools and translation technologies effectively.
The Translation and Culture post-enrolment specialism is interdisciplinary with access to experts across diverse languages and disciplines from Europe and beyond. It provides you opportunities to gain practical translation experience and understanding of professional practices, while accessing modules in an unrivalled variety of languages and disciplines.
The MA post-enrolment specialism gives you access to a truly interdisciplinary MA. You can customise your study based on language competencies and professional interests, developing practical translation, language, and technology skills. In addition to covering theoretical, applied, technological translation topics, students can focus on cultural studies, philosophy, history, or develop language skills in languages offered by the School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS). This refines your practice for successful professional or academic career paths.
The course aims to provide graduates with a range of vocational skills to enable them to pursue careers in the fields of translation and interpreting. Our graduates are highly valued by employers for their interdisciplinary skills and linguistic and cultural knowledge. Transferable skills include intercultural understanding, translation and communication skills, and analytical rigour.
Students graduating from this course will have demonstrated intellectual flexibility in engaging successfully with a diverse range of subject areas and disciplinary approaches to translation studies. They will be able to develop and sustain convincing arguments and will have experience in producing coherent research and analysis.
76.5% of CenTraS master’s degree graduates secure highly skilled positions or pursue graduate study.
The transferrable skills acquired at CenTraS enable our master’s degree graduates to pursue varied careers in publishing, journalism, or translation (33.3%), IT, technology and telecomms (8%), teaching or other educational activities (7.4%), media (6.2%) , academic research and higher education (4.3%) and charities, NGOs and international development (2.5%)
Major international organisations employ our CenTraS graduates, including Transperfect Translations Ltd, RWS Group, Codex Global Ltd, WordsTalk, VSI, TikTok, Sky, Shenzhen Airport, Rosetta Translation, Oxford University Press, Mother Tongue Ltd, Morning Side Translation, European Parliament, Cisco Systems and Cambridge University Press and Assessment.*