BA (Honours) Translation Programme

4-year Curriculum

48-credit Major Programme Structure

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
TRA2106	Language Studies for Translation: Syntax (changed 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
TRA3107	Literature, Culture and Translation (I)	3
TRA3203*	Introduction to Translation Studies or (retitled from General Translation Theory from 2015-16)	3
TRA4303*	Contemporary Translation Theory
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)

 

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	Global English Through Subtitles	3
TRA3201	General Interpreting (C-E)	3
TRA3202	General Interpreting (E-C)	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
TRA3227	English Writing Workshop for Translators (changed 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
TRA4301	Advanced Interpreting (C-E)	3
TRA4302	Advanced Interpreting (E-C)	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

 

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	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 may take both courses and one of them will be counted as a programme elective.

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

~ There are two areas in Selected Research Topics: (i) Language and Translation Studies; (ii) Literary and Cultural Studies. Students may select only one course from each of the two areas in their third or fourth year.