Formulate and express ideas and perspectives deriving from translation studies and from the application of translation methods within in a number of different contexts.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

These skills will be developed through:

- Textual and contextual analyses;
- A programme in which theory and practice are demonstrated to be mutually illuminating;
- A programme in which translation, both in terms of theory and practice, is examined as a real-world activity;
- Analysis of the process and products of translation debate, discussion and creative and professionally-based learning activities.

Methods of Assessment

These skills will be assessed by written assignments including critical essays, translation and reflective commentaries, practical projects and reflective learning logs.

Question and critically examine assumptions about language, and the relationship between language, identity and place.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

These skills will be developed through:

- Textual and contextual analyses;
- A programme in which theory and practice are demonstrated to be mutually illuminating;
- A programme in which translation, both in terms of theory and practice, is examined as a real-world activity;
- Analysis of the process and products of translation debate, discussion and creative and professionally-based learning activities.

Methods of Assessment

These skills will be assessed by written assignments including critical essays, translation and reflective commentaries, practical projects and reflective learning logs.

Question and critically examine assumptions about text and how texts transmit meaning.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

These skills will be developed through:

- Textual and contextual analyses;
- A programme in which theory and practice are demonstrated to be mutually illuminating;
- A programme in which translation, both in terms of theory and practice, is examined as a real-world activity;
- Analysis of the process and products of translation debate, discussion and creative and professionally-based learning activities.

Methods of Assessment

These skills will be assessed by written assignments including critical essays, translation and reflective commentaries, practical projects and reflective learning logs.

Critically analyse their own translation practice, in the case of students who take language-based modules, and/or that of others over a range of text types.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

These skills will be developed through:

- Textual and contextual analyses;
- A programme in which theory and practice are demonstrated to be mutually illuminating;
- A programme in which translation, both in terms of theory and practice, is examined as a real-world activity;
- Analysis of the process and products of translation debate, discussion and creative and professionally-based learning activities.

Methods of Assessment

These skills will be assessed by written assignments including critical essays, translation and reflective commentaries, practical projects and reflective learning logs.

Think independently, laterally and creatively.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

These skills will be developed through:

- Textual and contextual analyses;
- A programme in which theory and practice are demonstrated to be mutually illuminating;
- A programme in which translation, both in terms of theory and practice, is examined as a real-world activity;
- Analysis of the process and products of translation debate, discussion and creative and professionally-based learning activities.

Methods of Assessment

These skills will be assessed by written assignments including critical essays, translation and reflective commentaries, practical projects and reflective learning logs.

Summarise and synthesise theoretical and experiential learning, drawing on a range of sources, text types and perspectives.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

These skills will be developed through:

- Textual and contextual analyses;
- A programme in which theory and practice are demonstrated to be mutually illuminating;
- A programme in which translation, both in terms of theory and practice, is examined as a real-world activity;
- Analysis of the process and products of translation debate, discussion and creative and professionally-based learning activities.

Methods of Assessment

These skills will be assessed by written assignments including critical essays, translation and reflective commentaries, practical projects and reflective learning logs.

Examine and assess the effectiveness of texts and utterances within a wide range of contexts.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

These will be developed by a programme that in its individual and group activities emphasises the transferability of its skillset – close-reading skills, discourse analysis, pragmatic analysis, the relationship between text, subtext and context, writing, entrepreneurial, research and presentational skills.

Methods of Assessment

These skills will be assessed:

By a range of assessment methods that are designed to evaluate the application of core skills.

Have developed effective time-management awareness.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

These will be developed by a programme that in its individual and group activities emphasises the transferability of its skillset – close-reading skills, discourse analysis, pragmatic analysis, the relationship between text, subtext and context, writing, entrepreneurial, research and presentational skills.

Methods of Assessment

These skills will be assessed:

By a range of assessment methods that are designed to evaluate the application of core skills.

Have developed the ability to devise, plan and deliver projects.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

These will be developed by a programme that in its individual and group activities emphasises the transferability of its skillset – close-reading skills, discourse analysis, pragmatic analysis, the relationship between text, subtext and context, writing, entrepreneurial, research and presentational skills.

Methods of Assessment

These skills will be assessed:

By a range of assessment methods that are designed to evaluate the application of core skills.

Offer and receive constructive criticism of their own and others’ work.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

These will be developed by a programme that in its individual and group activities emphasises the transferability of its skillset – close-reading skills, discourse analysis, pragmatic analysis, the relationship between text, subtext and context, writing, entrepreneurial, research and presentational skills.

Methods of Assessment

These skills will be assessed:

By a range of assessment methods that are designed to evaluate the application of core skills.

Participate actively in debate and discussion.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

These will be developed by a programme that in its individual and group activities emphasises the transferability of its skillset – close-reading skills, discourse analysis, pragmatic analysis, the relationship between text, subtext and context, writing, entrepreneurial, research and presentational skills.

Methods of Assessment

These skills will be assessed:

By a range of assessment methods that are designed to evaluate the application of core skills.

Respond positively and productively to feedback on their own work.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

These will be developed by a programme that in its individual and group activities emphasises the transferability of its skillset – close-reading skills, discourse analysis, pragmatic analysis, the relationship between text, subtext and context, writing, entrepreneurial, research and presentational skills.

Methods of Assessment

These skills will be assessed:

By a range of assessment methods that are designed to evaluate the application of core skills.

Think creatively and professionally.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

These will be developed by a programme that in its individual and group activities emphasises the transferability of its skillset – close-reading skills, discourse analysis, pragmatic analysis, the relationship between text, subtext and context, writing, entrepreneurial, research and presentational skills.

Methods of Assessment

These skills will be assessed:

By a range of assessment methods that are designed to evaluate the application of core skills.

Have developed an understanding of the technologies available to assist the translator.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

These will be developed by a programme that in its individual and group activities emphasises the transferability of its skillset – close-reading skills, discourse analysis, pragmatic analysis, the relationship between text, subtext and context, writing, entrepreneurial, research and presentational skills.

Methods of Assessment

These skills will be assessed:

By a range of assessment methods that are designed to evaluate the application of core skills.

Have developed entrepreneurial and presentational skills.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

These will be developed by a programme that in its individual and group activities emphasises the transferability of its skillset – close-reading skills, discourse analysis, pragmatic analysis, the relationship between text, subtext and context, writing, entrepreneurial, research and presentational skills.

Methods of Assessment

These skills will be assessed:

By a range of assessment methods that are designed to evaluate the application of core skills.

Understand the importance of producing work within the framework of appropriate conventions.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

These will be developed by a programme that in its individual and group activities emphasises the transferability of its skillset – close-reading skills, discourse analysis, pragmatic analysis, the relationship between text, subtext and context, writing, entrepreneurial, research and presentational skills.

Methods of Assessment

These skills will be assessed:

By a range of assessment methods that are designed to evaluate the application of core skills.

Understand the key concepts of translation theory and apply these to practice in a range of academic and professionally-based contexts.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

These skills will be developed through:

- A programme of interactive seminars that deal with the history of translation studies, current issues, new perspectives and wider applications;
- A programme of guided practice in text translation;
- A programme of required and recommended reading;
- A programme of workshops that analyse the relationship between text and context, and critically assess students’ practice;
- Extended interaction with a range of visiting speakers, professional practitioners and other trainers.

Methods of Assessment

These skills will be assessed:

Through essays, projects, research exercises, translations, reflective learning logs and think-aloud protocols.

Critically analyse the translation process with a view to developing their own theoretical positions.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

These skills will be developed through:

- A programme of interactive seminars that deal with the history of translation studies, current issues, new perspectives and wider applications;
- A programme of guided practice in text translation;
- A programme of required and recommended reading;
- A programme of workshops that analyse the relationship between text and context, and critically assess students’ practice;
- Extended interaction with a range of visiting speakers, professional practitioners and other trainers.

Methods of Assessment

These skills will be assessed:

Through essays, projects, research exercises, translations, reflective learning logs and think-aloud protocols.

Understand the relationship between creativity and constraint across a full typology of texts.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

These skills will be developed through:

- A programme of interactive seminars that deal with the history of translation studies, current issues, new perspectives and wider applications;
- A programme of guided practice in text translation;
- A programme of required and recommended reading;
- A programme of workshops that analyse the relationship between text and context, and critically assess students’ practice;
- Extended interaction with a range of visiting speakers, professional practitioners and other trainers.

Methods of Assessment

These skills will be assessed:

Through essays, projects, research exercises, translations, reflective learning logs and think-aloud protocols.

Understand what it means to be a professional translator and to undertake professional translation and/or further research within the discipline of Translation Studies.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

These skills will be developed through:

- A programme of interactive seminars that deal with the history of translation studies, current issues, new perspectives and wider applications;
- A programme of guided practice in text translation;
- A programme of required and recommended reading;
- A programme of workshops that analyse the relationship between text and context, and critically assess students’ practice;
- Extended interaction with a range of visiting speakers, professional practitioners and other trainers.

Methods of Assessment

These skills will be assessed:

Through essays, projects, research exercises, translations, reflective learning logs and think-aloud protocols.

Understand the application of translation as an intellectual mode and model of cultural encounter to a wide range of social and cultural contexts.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

These skills will be developed through:

- A programme of interactive seminars that deal with the history of translation studies, current issues, new perspectives and wider applications;
- A programme of guided practice in text translation;
- A programme of required and recommended reading;
- A programme of workshops that analyse the relationship between text and context, and critically assess students’ practice;
- Extended interaction with a range of visiting speakers, professional practitioners and other trainers.

Methods of Assessment

These skills will be assessed:

Through essays, projects, research exercises, translations, reflective learning logs and think-aloud protocols.

Demonstrate the relationship between theoretical models prevalent in translation studies and translation practice.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

These skills will be developed:

Synoptically and individually through the programme of seminars, guided independent translations, workshops, visiting speakers and recommended reading.

Methods of Assessment

These skills will be assessed:

Through essays, projects, research exercises, translations, reflective learning logs and think-aloud protocols.

Apply their understanding of the broad issues in translation studies to their own writing practice.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

These skills will be developed:

Synoptically and individually through the programme of seminars, guided independent translations, workshops, visiting speakers and recommended reading.

Methods of Assessment

These skills will be assessed:

Through essays, projects, research exercises, translations, reflective learning logs and think-aloud protocols.

For those students who choose language-based modules, demonstrate a good level of specific skills relating to translation practice, including: major contrastive phenomena between their principal foreign language and English; issues of register and dialect; specificities of text type, including literary translation and subtitling; the importance of cultural context.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

These skills will be developed:

Synoptically and individually through the programme of seminars, guided independent translations, workshops, visiting speakers and recommended reading.

Methods of Assessment

These skills will be assessed:

Through essays, projects, research exercises, translations, reflective learning logs and think-aloud protocols.

Apply a range of business, academic and professional skills applicable within the context of translation practice.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

These skills will be developed:

Synoptically and individually through the programme of seminars, guided independent translations, workshops, visiting speakers and recommended reading.

Methods of Assessment

These skills will be assessed:

Through essays, projects, research exercises, translations, reflective learning logs and think-aloud protocols.

Apply a working understanding of the intercultural models supplied by translation theory to issues of relevance to the public domain.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

These skills will be developed:

Synoptically and individually through the programme of seminars, guided independent translations, workshops, visiting speakers and recommended reading.

Methods of Assessment

These skills will be assessed:

Through essays, projects, research exercises, translations, reflective learning logs and think-aloud protocols.

Undertake theoretical and/or practice-based research.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

These skills will be developed:

Synoptically and individually through the programme of seminars, guided independent translations, workshops, visiting speakers and recommended reading.

Methods of Assessment

These skills will be assessed:

Through essays, projects, research exercises, translations, reflective learning logs and think-aloud protocols.