Module manager: Dr Elisabetta Adami
Email: E.Adami@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 Oct to 30 Sep (12mth) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
| MODL5420M | Dissertation: Translation Studies |
| MODL5421M | Extended Translations |
This module is not approved as an Elective
The module will give you the opportunity to demonstrate your interpreting abilities at a professional standard as the culmination of your learning in the degree. You will work under supervision to provide an interpreting performance and to identify the challenges faced in your interpreting performance, together with the skills required and the strategies adopted to respond to these challenges. You will be responsible for proposing and securing the interpreting activity, which will involve working with one of the language pairs you have been trained during your interpreting degree. Please note this is an optional module and runs subject to enrolments. If a low number of students choose this module, then the module may not run and you may be asked to choose another module.
On completion of this module, students should be able to ...
This module is designed to provide interpreting students with experience in producing an interpreting performance of a professional standard in their language combination and to increase students' awareness of the interpreting process in a professional setting and of their own interpreting production.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Interpret in a real-life like context
2. Analyse the interpreting performance and reflect upon the process and product
3. Manage interpreting services at a professional standard and adopt a proactive approach to interpreting tasks
4. Carry out effective research and preparation for an interpreting task.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
5. Execute tasks and perform under time constraints in real-life scenarios
6. Apply creatively solutions to problems
7. Communicate effectively in a professional context
8. Critically self-reflect on and justify decisions
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supervision | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Lecture | 10 | 1 | 10 |
| Seminar | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Private study hours | 432 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 18 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 450 | ||
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Through supervision sessions with supervisors. Students will submit a proposal (interpreting task specifications), which they will discuss with their supervisor at the first meeting. They will have a second meeting with their supervisor to discuss their progress before their interpreting performance. Before the end of supervision students will submit a 10% sample of their projects, on which supervisors will provide formative feedback.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Interpreting Project | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
There is no reading list for this module
Last updated: 30/04/2025
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