Translation, Communication, Language Technology Heidelberg University

Overview

In the Master’s degree programme Translation, Communication, Language Technology at Heidelberg University, students acquire advanced scientific knowledge and skills in the field of Translation Studies. 

Graduates of the MA programme:

• have mastered their chosen foreign language at the C2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, have academically substantiated intercultural skills and therefore also excellent language mediation competencies, 
• have comprehensive knowledge of linguistics, cultural studies, multilingual communication and translation studies,
• have strong textual and discourse-analytical competencies. They can contrastingly analyse complex texts from language-internal and -external perspectives and translate these professionally in consideration of text type conventions.
• are able to independently conduct scientific work and have developed professional competencies in their research, 
• have advanced skills in multilingual terminology work and have comprehensive knowledge of theories, techniques and methods of translation of creative texts and/or of specialised communication,
• have differentiated and extremely high professional and research-oriented skills in the area of language technologies due to continuous use of applications and tools associated with computer-aided translation, machine translation, corpus analysis, terminology management and localisation,
• can work independently and in a team, e.g. in group projects to foster acquisition of professional skills.