The Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Language Studies and Translation is a four-year programme. Applicants can apply for admission to Year 1 or Senior Year.
The programme aims to enable students to learn a range of language and translation skills. The former intends to enhance their language awareness, ability and confidence as practising language professionals. The latter encompasses practical skills in dealing with the cultural dimension of translation; accounting for the differences between the English and Chinese languages; and handling translated texts in specialized areas, including law, business, public administration, and media. This programme intends to bring students to a level of proficiency that enables them to be linguistically and analytically equipped to complete extended translation assignments and deal with linguistically- and culturally-related problems in translation.
This programme prepares students for a career as a professional translator or any language practitioner such as a language teacher, editor etc. There is a variety of jobs available to the Language and Translation graduate in Hong Kong: in the civil service, public utilities, education, the mass media and commerce.
Opportunities are available for the graduates of this programme to pursue postgraduate studies in Hong Kong and abroad. Some students continue to study for a PhD or master’s degree after graduation; and others pursue postgraduate studies part-time while working full-time. Some choose to study further in the field of language studies, legal translation and applied translation, while others study another subject area, such as linguistics, applied linguistics, bilingual studies and education according to their career plans.
A degree holder in this programme with a relevant teacher training qualification is eligible to apply for exemption from the Language Proficiency Requirement for Teachers (English Language).
Please click the hyperlinks below to view the programme structure:
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Year 1 entry |
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Programme code: BAHLTJ1 |
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Senior year entry |
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Programme code: BAHLTJS |
English and Cantonese
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Year 1 entry: 4 years |
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Senior Year Entry: 2 years / 3 years (Applicants will be considered for admission to different years of the study programme depending on individual academic merits and other relevant factors.) |
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Dr Eden Sum-hung Li (Programme Leader) |
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(852) 2768 5907 |
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shli@ouhk.edu.hk |
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For more details about the programme information, please refer to the programme website.
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