USEK - Holy Spirit University of Kaslik
Master of Arts in Translation
MA
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2025
STUDY FORMAT
Blended
Key Summary
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at USEK, founded in 2019, is the result of the merge of the Faculty of Letters, Philosophy and Humanities, Sciences and Music and is an academic reengineering process decided in 2017. The Faculty embraces a variety of programs supporting research, teaching, and students’ learning experience in Humanities, Social Sciences, Arts, and Natural Sciences, including Mathematics, Computing, and Nutrition.
Mission
The mission of the Department of Modern Languages and Translation is to allow its Master students to hone their specialization in technical translations and to comply with the requirements of academic research; so that they can perform the tasks assigned to them in their countries and interlinguistic and intercultural vocation.
Program Educational Objectives
- Graduates are trained in general translation and specialize in translation for agencies and publishing houses.
- Graduates are trained in teaching translation in complementary and secondary education.
- Graduates will be trained in University research.
Program Outcomes
- Students will perform general translations of books.
- Perform economic translations of books.
- Perform legal translations of books.
- Perform scientific and technical translations of books.
- Perform oral translations and interpretation.
- Perform editorial press and media translations.
- Perform subtitle translation for cinema and television.
- Be able to teach translation in schools.
- Be able to play the role of mediator in multilingual negotiations.
- Be able to conduct academic research.
- TRD514 Economic Translation AB/BA II
- TRD520 Economic Translation AC/CA II
- TRD621 Editorial and Economic Translation AB/BA
- TRD622 Editorial and Economic Translation AC/CA
- TRD529 Film Translation: Subtitling and Dubbing
- TRD511 General Thematic Translation AB/BA
- TRD521 General Thematic Translation AC/CA
- TRD623 Legal Translation AB/BA II
- TRD526 Legal Translation AB/BA; AC/CA
- TRD624 Legal translation AC/CA
- TRD620 Liaison Interpretation A, B, C
- TRD690A Master Dissertation
- MTR501 Research Methodology
- TRD527 Seminar: Contemporary Culture and Civilization
- TRD528 Technical and Scientific Translation AB/BA ; AC/CA
- ANG520 Techniques of Expressions in English