This module serves as the final graduation project for students at the end of their MA study on both the MA in Chinese-English Bilingual Translation and Interpreting and the MA in Translation, and is completed over the summer.
Students will produce a piece of work of 15,000-18,000 words or equivalent on an area agreed in advance with your supervisor: possibilities include a translation project, a comparison of existing translations, or an analysis of the role of translation in a particular culture or another research project. Students who choose to do an extended translation of a text will translate an approximately 9,500-word text and compose a 7,500-9,000 word commentary. The word count for the translation may be negotiable if the student opts for more difficult and complex genres (e.g. poetry and song) or with technical challenges (e.g. subtitle a video clip).