Translation Studies University College Cork

Overview

Working individually and in groups, and supported by expert tutors, students will receive training in the key methods, strategies, processes, and tools involved in the provision of professional language services.

Through a broad range of elective modules, students of the Translation Studies course at University College Cork have the opportunity to gain specialist knowledge in diverse areas of practice and research, which they can further develop through a dedicated research piece at the end of the programme.

Careers Information

Thanks to our programme's focus on fostering high-level professional communication skills, graduates of the MA in Translation Studies find employment in Ireland and abroad in a broad range of fields:

• Within the language industry, working as freelancers or in-house for language service providers in a number of roles: translators, interpreters, post-editors, project managers, language specialists, localisation testers, terminologists, subtitlers, videogame localisers, etc.

• In supranational organisations (e.g. EU institutions)

• With global companies (e.g. Amazon, Apple, Facebook, etc.)

• In a wide range of related areas such as content creation, technical writing, marketing and sales, publishing, journalism, etc.