Faculty of Arts
Interlingual Communication and Language Technology
JUPAS No. JS7204
Year of Entry First Year Entry Senior Year Entry
Funding Type UGC-funded (First Year Entry) or Self-financed (Senior Year Entry)
The name change is subject to the University's approval.
Programme Description
The Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Interlingual Communication and Language Technology trains bilingual professionals for a language industry being reshaped by AI. Students develop four core competencies: bilingual writing, oral communication, intercultural understanding, and language technology.
Translation and writing courses span academic, creative and professional genres. Public speaking training teaches students to present ideas clearly, engage different audiences, and adapt their message to the setting. Intercultural coursework builds the ability to work across cultures — a skill at the heart of translation and increasingly of every workplace. Throughout the programme, students work hands-on with AI-assisted language tools, learning where these tools help, where they fail, and how a skilled human adds value.
Core courses — Introduction to Communication and Translation and Introduction to Translation Studies — lay the conceptual foundation; courses in Chinese–English translation and interpreting build the practical skills employers expect.
From the second year, students choose one of two concentrations:
- Concentration A: Translation and Cross-cultural Communication
- Concentration B: AI and Digital Corporate Communication
The concentrations reflect where the language services industry is heading, and let students shape the degree around their own interests and career plans. Graduates leave with bilingual expertise, cultural awareness and the critical judgement to operate in complex, global communication environments, from the classroom to the boardroom.
Career Opportunities for Graduates
Hong Kong's biliterate, trilingual environment and sustained demand for cross-linguistic communication and localisation across Greater China and international markets give our graduates a wide choice of careers. Alongside translation and interpreting, recent alumni have gone into public and corporate administration, corporate communication, copywriting, media and journalism, marketing, public relations, human resources, academic research, and, last but not least, teaching. What they share is professional-grade language skill combined with critical thinking and cross-cultural communication — a combination that transfers across sectors.
