BA (Honours) Translation Programme

4-year Curriculum

48-credit Major Programme Structure

Intake 2020-21

Intake 2019-20

Intake 2018-19

Intake 2017-18

Intake 2016-17

Intake 2015-16

Intake 2014-15

 

Overall Programme structure under the four-year curriculum

 

Required Courses

(Total 30 credits: Year 2 to Year 4)

		Credits
TRA2101	Introduction to Interpreting (C-E)	3
TRA2102	Introduction to Interpreting (E-C)	3
TRA2103	Introduction to Translation (C-E)	3
TRA2104	Introduction to Translation (E-C)	3
TRA3107	Literature, Culture and Translation (I)	3
TRA3203	Introduction to Translation Studies	3
TRA3204	Translation Criticism I (E-C & C-E)	3
TRA3227	English Writing Workshop for Translators (changed from an elective course to a compulsory course with effect from the 2013 intake i.e. students admitted to the Faculty of Arts in the 2013-14 academic year and allocated to the Translation Major in the 2014-15 academic year).	3
TRA4318#	Translation Project (E-C and C-E) or	6
TRA4319#	Translation Project (E-C) or
TRA4320#	Translation Project (C-E) or
TRA4325#	Translation Studies Research Project

 

Programme Elective Courses

(Total 6 courses, 18 credits, to be taken from Years 2 to 4)

Students have to take at least two courses (6 credits) from each category of elective courses, for a total of four courses, and the remaining two elective courses can be chosen by the students from either category.

 

Category A: Skills-Based Courses		Credits
TRA2001~	Introduction to Computer-aided Translation	3
TRA2105	Language Studies for Translation: Phonology and Morphology	3
TRA2106	Language Studies for Translation: Syntax (changed from a required course to an elective course with effect from the 2013 intake i.e. students admitted to the Faculty of Arts in the 2013-14 academic year and allocated to the Translation Major in the 2014-15 academic year).	3
TRA3001	Chinese Writing Workshop for Translators	3
TRA3002	English Through Subtitles (from 2020-21)	3
TRA3201	General Interpreting (C-E) (deleted from 2020-21)	3
TRA3202	General Interpreting (E-C) (deleted from 2020-21)	3
TRA3205	Literary Translation A (C-E)	3
TRA3206	Literary Translation A (E-C)	3
TRA3208	Translation for the Media (E-C & C-E)	3
TRA3211	Translation of Texts in the Arts (E-C & C-E)	3
TRA3213	Bilingual Publication Workshop	3
TRA3214	Bilingual Oral Workshop (E-C & C-E)	3
TRA3222	Business Translation (C-E)	3
TRA3223	Business Translation (E-C)	3
TRA3224	General Interpreting (P-E and E-P)	3
TRA3228##	Liaison Interpreting (from 2020-21)	3
TRA4301	Advanced Interpreting (C-E) (deleted from 2020-21)	3
TRA4302	Advanced Interpreting (E-C) (deleted from 2020-21)	3
TRA4305	Literary Translation B (C-E)	3
TRA4306	Literary Translation B (E-C)	3
TRA4310	Translation for Science and Technology (E-C & C-E)	3
TRA4321	Selected Translation Project (E-C) or	3
TRA4322	Selected Translation Project (C-E)
TRA4323	Legal Translation (C-E)	3
TRA4324	Legal Translation (E-C)	3
TRA4326@	Conference Interpreting (from 2020-21)	3

 

Category B: Literary and Cultural Courses		Credits
TRA3203	Introduction to Translation Studies (retitled from General Translation Theory from 2015-16)	3
TRA3209	Translation of Texts in Popular Culture (E-C & C-E)	3
TRA3215	Bilingual Studies in Modern Fiction and Prose (retitled from Bilingual Studies in Twentieth-Century Fiction and Prose from 2014-15)	3
TRA3216	Bilingual Studies in Modern Poetry and Drama (retitled from Bilingual Studies in Twentieth-Century Poetry and Drama from 2014-15)	3
TRA3217	Translating Cultures	3
TRA3218	Translation in the Hong Kong Context	3
TRA3219	Literature, Culture and Translation (II)	3
TRA3221	Topics in Bilingual Studies: Love in Chinese and Western Literatures	3
TRA3226	Studies in Comparative Literature	3
TRA3238	Cross-cultural Perspectives in Film: Thematic Comparisons	3
TRA4303*	Contemporary Translation Theory	3
TRA4307	Gender, Language and Translation	3
TRA4308	History of Translation	3
TRA4315	Selected Research Topics (deleted from 2020-21)	3

 

Offering of Elective Courses

Not all elective courses are offered every year. Some courses may be offered in alternate years. Elective courses are offered subject to availability of teachers and sufficient student enrolment.

 

Free Electives

Students may select courses in any disciplines to obtain the total number of credits required for graduation, subject to timetable, course load and study scheme constraints.

 

* Students were allowed to take either TRA3203 Introduction to Translation Studies or TRA4303 Contemporary Translation Theory as a required course. Students may also take both courses and one of them will be counted as a programme elective. If students have not finished this requirement on TRA3203 or TRA4303 by 2019-20, they can only take TRA3203 in 2020-21.

# Students are required to work on a long translation project, either E-C or C-E, or both, or work on a research project, and cannot change to take another project course after failing any one of them.

## Students who have taken TRA3201 General Interpreting (C-E) or TRA3202 General Interpreting (E-C) are not allowed to take TRA3228 Liaison Interpreting.

@ Students who have taken TRA4301 Advanced Interpreting (C-E) or TRA4302 Advanced Interpreting (E-C) are not allowed to take TRA4326 Conference Interpreting.

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