Translating and Interpreting

There is a great need in Hong Kong and elsewhere in the world for professionally trained translators and interpreters who can work at a high level of competence in either Chinese or English. This programme meets that demand by offering language industry professionals the opportunity to upgrade their qualifications, catch up on new developments in translation and interpreting, and to expand their existing skills or acquire new skills.

We provide practical professional training. The elements of theory that we introduce are directly relevant to improving the efficiency of practitioners. The programme has a broad-based curriculum, which allows students to prepare for later professional specialisation. Graduates have enhanced skills that are marketable in both the private and public sectors.

Compulsory Subjects

• Advanced Translation
• Interpreting: Consecutive
• Interpreting: Principles
• Translation Studies
• Translation: Discourse and the Translator
• Translation: Text and Context

Elective Subjects

• Advanced Interpreting
• Advanced Liaison Interpreting
• Advanced Legal Translation
• Advanced Translation for Media
• Advanced Translation for Business and Commerce
• Computer Assisted Translation
• Computer Tools for the Language Professionals
• Contrastive Analysis
• MATI Dissertation
• Specialised Interpreting Programme I
• Specialised Interpreting Programme II

Other Elective Subjects under MA scheme:

• Applied Chinese Language Studies
• Applied Corpus Linguistics
• Applied Lexicology and Lexicography
• Computer Assisted Chinese Language Teaching
• Hong Kong Literature
• Intercultural Communication
• Introduction to Cantonese Studies
• Introduction to Chinese Language Testing
• Introduction to Educational Linguistics
• Literary Discourse Analysis
• Modern Chinese Characters and Information Technology
• Modern Rhetoric
• Poetry of the Tang and Song Era
• Psycholinguistics
• Research Methods in Language Teaching and Language Studies
• Selected Readings of Vernacular Fiction
• Selected Readings of Eight Writers of the Tang and Song Era
• Teaching Chinese Grammar to Non-native Speakers
• Teaching Chinese Vocabulary to Non-native Learners
• Teaching of Chinese Characters and Words to Non-native Learners
• The Psychology of Reading and Reading Difficulties
• Using Reading to Teach Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree from a recognised institution.
• CV
• Personal Statement
• Transcript / Certificate
• Applicants are expected to meet ONE of the following requirements:
  • A Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) score of at least 96 for the Internet-based test, or a TOEFL score of at least 590 for the paper-based test;
    OR
  • A score of at least 7.0 on listening and reading sections with no sub-score below 6.5 in the International English Language Testing System (IELTS);
    OR
  • A level of competence in English, as demonstrated by performance in the admission test set by MATI, which indicates that the applicant* is capable of studying successfully at the taught MA level.

• Notes:

  *This only applies to either native English speakers or non-native English applicants with a Bachelor’s degree from a university using English as the medium of instruction (EMI).

  Non-native speakers or applicants without a Bachelor’s degree from an EMI university (but meeting the requirement as stated in the third bullet point) still have to fulfil the University-wide minimum language requirements. Exceptional cases are considered on a case-by-case basis.