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Linguistics: Translation

Master

This is a specialisation within the MA Linguistics.

Students take the following obligatory courses:

Course 1: Advanced Translation (5 EC)

Course 2: Translation Studies (5 EC)

Course 3: The Translator’s Tools (5 EC)

Course 4: Thesis Seminar and Thesis (20 EC)

Course 5: Work Placement / Research Internship (10 EC)

In addition, students choose 2 specialized courses from the following:

Course 6 (10 EC) and 7 (5 EC): Multimodal Translation (10 EC), Legal Translation I (10 EC), Legal Translation II (5 EC), Subtitling in Theory and Practice (5 EC). Other courses offered within the MA Linguistics or a course on a linguistics subject taught in another MA are subject to approval by the Board of Examiners.

Mode of Study: Full-time and part-time. Courses are scheduled during office hours. The nominal duration of the full-time programma is one year and the nominal duration of the part-time programme is two years.

Please contact the specialisation coordinator for more information on eligibility for registration in the Register of Sworn Interpreters and Translators.

Courses

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2

Semester 1

Obligatory courses
The Translator’s Tools 5
Advanced Translation 5
Translation Studies 5
MA Thesis Seminar Translation 0

Elective: select 1 course from the list below:
Multimodal Translation 10
Legal Translation I 10

Semester 2

Obligatory courses
MA thesis Translation 20
Workplacement Translation 10

Elective: select 1 course from the list below:
Legal Translation II 5
Subtitling in Theory and Practice 5

Career Preparation

Labour market preparation in MA Linguistics (all specializations)

In addition to offering you a solid university education, Leiden University aims to prepare you for today’s labour market. Your studies will contribute to the development of your employability. After finishing the programme, it will become easier for you to make the transition to the labour market, to remain employable in a dynamic labour market in a (career) job that suits your own personal values, preferences and development.

'Employability' consists of the following aspects that you will develop within your study programme, among others:

1. Discipline-specific knowledge and skills
Knowledge and skills specific to your study programme.

2. Transferable skills
These are skills that are relevant to every student and that you can use in all kinds of jobs irrespective of your study programme, for example: research, conducting analyses, project-based working, generating solutions, acquiring and developing digital skills, collaborating, oral communication, written communication, presenting, raising societal awareness, independent learning, and resilience.

3. Self-reflection
This concerns self-reflection in the context of your (study) career, including reflecting on the choices you make as a student during your studies, esp. with respect to what you can do with your knowledge and skills on the labour market.
In addition, reflecting on your own profile and your personal and professional development. Who are you, what can you do well, what do you find interesting, what suits you, what do you find important, what do you want to do?

4. Practical experience
Gaining practical experience through internships, work placements, projects, practical (social) assignments, which are integrated into an elective, minor or graduation assignment.

5. Labour market orientation
Gaining insight into the labour market, fields of work, jobs and career paths through, for example, guest speakers and alumni experiences from the work field, career events within the study programme, the use of the alumni mentor network, interviewing people from the work field, and shadowing/visiting companies in the context of a particular subject.

Employability in MA Linguistics (all specializations)

You will also find these employability elements in your study programme. Examples of subjects that pay attention to this are:

Discipline-specific knowledge and skills

  • A theoretical research seminar on Language Variation and Language Change in Latin America

  • Advanced Morphology

  • Advanced Phonology

  • Advanced Syntax 1

  • Advanced Syntax 2

  • Advanced topics in Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing

  • Advanced Topics in Indo-European Phonology

  • Advanced topics in Indo-European Morphology: Verb

  • Advanced Translation

  • Advanced Typology

  • Ancient Greek for Indo-Europeanists

  • Anatolian Linguistics

  • Argumentation and Persuasion

  • Cognitive Neuroscience of Language

  • Comparative Asian Linguistics

  • Comparative Syntax

  • Computational Corpus Analysis

  • Computational Models and Semantics

  • Cross-linguistic Variation in Semantics

  • Diversity Linguistics: Africa, Asia and the Americas

  • De sturende kracht van taal

  • English Historical Linguistics

  • English Word Formation

  • Evolutionary Algorithms

  • Experimental Phonetics

  • Forensic Speech Science

  • Historische sociolinguïstiek: taal in de stad

  • Homeric Greek and Mycenaean

  • Indo-European Linguistics I

  • Indo-European Linguistics II

  • Issues in Language Endangerment and Revitalization

  • Italiano L2 e metodi per l’apprendimento dell’italiano L2

  • Language Contact

  • Language, Culture and Cognition: Linguistics

  • Language, Literature and Communication in Africa

  • Legal Translation I

  • Legal Translation II

  • Les parlers jeunes dans l’espace francophone

  • Machine learning for NLP

  • Methodology of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics

  • Multimodal Translation

  • Old High German for Indo-Europeanists

  • Pragmatik des Deutschen: Interaktion und Gesellschaft

  • Second Language Acquisition

  • Sinographics: Chinese writing and writing Chinese

  • Sociolinguistics of Italian: Language, Identity, and Social Change

  • Stilistiek: formuleringskeuzes en overtuigingskracht

  • Subtitling in Theory and Practice

  • Themes in Sociolinguistics: Speakers' choices across the globe

  • Translation Studies

  • Universalien und Rarissima: Deutsch in der Sprachtypologie

  • Variation linguistique et modélisation

  • Vedic Sanskrit for Indo-Europeanists

Transferable skills

  • Advanced topics in Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing

  • Computational Corpus Analysis

  • Corpus Lexicography

  • Evolutionary Algorithms

  • Forensic Speech Science

  • Italiano L2 e metodi per l’apprendimento dell’italiano L2

  • Machine learning for NLP

  • Methods in Experimental Linguistics

  • Methods in Speech Processing

  • Qualitative Methods in Linguistics

  • Social Network Analysis for Computer Scientists

  • Statistics: Advanced Linear Models

  • Statistics: Fundamentals of Linear Models

  • Text Mining

  • The Translator’s Tools

Practical experience

  • Advanced topics in Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing

  • Computational Corpus Analysis

  • Corpus Lexicography

  • Didactiek van het Nederlands als tweede taal

  • Experimental Phonetics

  • Field Methods

  • Fieldwork (Internship/Practicum)

  • Forensic Speech Science

  • Individual Project

  • Internship Linguistics

  • Issues in Language Endangerment and Revitalization

  • Italiano L2 e metodi per l’apprendimento dell’italiano L2

  • Language Documentation

  • Machine learning for NLP

  • Methods in Experimental Linguistics

  • Methods in Speech Processing

  • Multimodal Translation

  • Qualitative Methods in Linguistics

  • Social Network Analysis for Computer Scientists

  • Statistics: Advanced Linear Models

  • Statistics: Fundamentals of Linear Models

  • Stilistiek: formuleringskeuzes en overtuigingskracht

  • Subtitling in Theory and Practice

  • Text Mining

  • The Translator’s Tools

  • Workplacement Translation

Labour market orientation

  • Individual Project

  • Internship Linguistics

  • Workplacement Translation

Activities to prepare for the labour market alongside / outside the curriculum

Every year, various activities take place, within, alongside and outside of your study programme, which contribute to your preparation for the labour market, especially where it concerns orientation towards the work field/the labour market, (career) skills and self-reflection. These activities could be hosted by your study program to discuss the key decision stages within your program. Furthermore, you may want to attend career workshops and events organised by the Humanities Career service or your study association.

For example:

Humanities Career Service, LU Career Zone and Career Workshops Calendar

Humanities Career Service
The Humanities Career Service offers information and advice on internships, study (re)orientation and master's choice, orientation on the labour market and careers.

Leiden University Career Zone
The Leiden University Career Zone is the website for students and alumni of Leiden University to support their (study) career. You can find advice, information, (career) tests and tools in the area of (study) career planning, career possibilities with your study, job market orientation, job applications, the Alumni Mentor network, job portal, workshops and events and career services.

Workshops and events
On the Workshops calendar you will find an overview of career and application workshops, organised by the Humanities Career Service.