Translation with a Placement Year Abroad

About this programme

Focus on translation as professional practice combined with traditional modern language training. Live, learn and gain experience overseas in your third year, studying or working in the countries where your chosen languages are spoken. Learn from native and near-native speakers through interactive teaching that combines face-to-face learning with digital tools to build your language skills and confidence. Practice your language skills beyond the classroom through conversation classes, language cafés, student societies and cultural activities that help you feel at home. A structured skills programme embeds academic, transferable and employability skills into learning from the beginning. Translation is a major actor on the world stage. It is also one of the most fundamental of human activities, allowing us to interact with one another within and across cultures. On our 4-year Translation with a Placement Year Abroad (BA) programme, you’ll develop the ability to translate and mediate between laguages, cultures and communities. You’ll gain high-level language and communication skills, excellent intercultural and critical-thinking competences, as well as an in-depth understanding of the professional contexts of translation. Furthermore, you’ll foster resilience and independence through time spent in immersive foreign language contexts. Our BA in Translation with a Placement Year Abroad equips you well for a translation career and for a range of jobs where language skills are an asset. Moreover, by studying translation you’ll acquire a wealth of transferable skills and kno