Course structure
Each student takes all six of the core modules, and chooses two of the option modules. Each student also produces a portfolio and a dissertation under the supervision of specialists.
Core Modules
- Theory and History of Translation
- Linguistic and Textual Analysis
- Aspects of the Profession
- Interlingual Technologies
- Research Training Seminar
- Literary Translation Portfolio
Optional Modules
This list may vary year by year
Michaelmas Term (autumn)
- Discovering the Other: East-West Encounters in Translation History
- Translation Studies Methodologies
- Dantean Echoes
- Europe and Its Identities: A Cultural History
- Medieval and Renaissance Foundations of Western Europe
- The Russian Avant-Garde
Hilary Term (spring)
- Madness, Nonsense and Identity in Literature
- European Cinema and Identity
- Don Quixote: Romance, Comedy and the Modern Novel
- Food, Drink and European Cultural Identities
- The Communist Century: Culture, History, Representations
- Postmodernist Literature in East and Central Europe