StudyQA — Master: Translating and Interpreting — Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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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.
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Personal Statement
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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.