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Translating and Interpreting MATI

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Master of Arts in Translating and Interpreting

[This curriculum is applicable to cohorts admitted in or after 2018/19.]

The subject list is subject to revision. Offering of subjects is subject to the availability of teaching staff and viable enrolment numbers. Some elective subjects will not be offered every year. The Department has the discretion on the offering semester and class quota, which is limited by classroom capacity. 

Compulsory Subjects
Subject Code Subject Title No. of Credits
CBS561 Translation: Text and Context
3
CBS564 Translation: Discourse and the Translator
3
CBS562 Interpreting: Principles
3
CBS565 Interpreting: Consecutive
3
CBS566 Translation Studies
3
CBS568 Advanced Translation
3
CBS5T01 Professional Ethics and Academic Integrity
1
Credit transfer can be granted for compulsory subjects on a case-by-case basis subject to prior approval.
Elective subjects in translation/interpreting/language studies (English):
Subject Code Subject Title No. of Credits
CBS570 Specialised Interpreting Programme I
3
CBS571 Specialised Interpreting Programme II
3
CBS582 Advanced Legal Translation
3
CBS583 Advanced Translation for Media
3
CBS584 Advanced Translation for Business and Commerce
3
CBS587 # Advanced Interpreting
3
CBS579 MATI Dissertation
9
CBS590 Multimedia Applications for Language Professionals and Translators
3
CBS597 # Advanced Liaison Interpreting
3
# CBS587 and CBS597 are mutually exclusive.
Remarks: Some translation subjects are taught in English and Mandarin.
Other elective subjects under MA scheme
Subject Code Subject Title No. of Credits
CBS5020 Special Education Needs in Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing
3
CBS5021 Special Education Needs Associated with Cognitive, Physical and Sensory Disorders
3
CBS505B Research Methods in Language Teaching and Language Studies
3
CBS506 Introduction to Educational Linguistics
3

CBS509

 Sign Language and Linguistics
3
CBS512 Introduction to Chinese Language Testing
3
CBS514 Introduction to Cantonese Studies
3
CBS516 Contrastive Analysis
3
CBS529 Chinese Lexical Semantics and Corpus Linguistics
3
CBS5413 Digital Media Communication
3
CBS543 Selected Readings of Eight Writers of the Tang and Song Era
3
CBS544 Poetry of the Tang and Song Era
3
CBS546 Hong Kong Literature
3
CBS581 Teaching Chinese Grammar to Non-native Speakers
3
CBS586 Teaching of Chinese Characters and Words to Non-native Learners
3
CBS591 Intercultural Communication
3
CBS592 Psycholinguistics
3
CBS596 Neurolinguistics
3
CBS598 Experimental Phonetics
3
CBS599 Statistical Methods in Language Research
3

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