Programme Structure

Courses cover  translation technology, translation, interpreting, Chinese and English languages, and computer science.

Core courses

Year 1

Core courses

• Introduction to translation technology
• Principles and practice of translation
• Principles and practice of Interpreting
• Computing knowledge for translators
• Major languages of the world

Language and GE courses

• Emerging technologies and data analysis for workplace
• Practical Chinese
• English usage
• Critical thinking
• Ethics and moral issues
• Integrated seminars and community involvement
• GE Elective

Year 2

Core courses

• Computer-aided translation
• Machine translation
• Localization
• Speech translation
• Writing skills for translators
• Advanced interpreting

Language and GE courses

• Putonghua for effective communication
• Academic Reading and Writing I
• Academic reading and writing II
• Individual and society
• GE Elective

Year 3

Core courses

• Artificial intelligence and translation
• Data and translation technology

8 stream courses

Language and GE courses

• GE Elective

Year 4

Core courses

• Natural language processing
• Speech processing
• Final-year project I
•  Final-year project II

6 stream courses

Language and GE courses

• Global citizenship

List of programme electives

• Business translation
• Journalistic translation
• Tourism translation 

• Consecutive interpreting
• Simultaneous interpreting
• Conference interpreting 

• Computer-aided translation systems
• Translation project management
• Terminology and translation memory management 

• Machine translation systems
• Editing in machine translation
• Machine translation evaluation

• Localization systems
• Software and games localization
• Audio-visual localization

•  Speech translation systems
• Speech dialogue technology
• Speech recognition