Translation (E92)

Build your expertise as a professional translator with this postgraduate diploma. You’ll develop your skills in this exciting field, equipping you for work in the fast-growing translation services industry. You’ll experiment with different genres through practical and inspiring translation activities, honing your practice through peer review. Additionally, you will gain hands-on experience using the tools necessary to operate in this rapidly evolving area, such as audio-visual translation and cloud-based translation tools. Your work will be underpinned by an understanding of key translation theories and debates. The languages offered for this qualification are French, German, Italian, or Spanish, in combination with English.

Key features of the course

Engage in authentic translation tasks to develop useful employability skills.

Choose to translate using either French, German, Spanish, Italian, Mandarin Chinese or Modern Standard Arabic in combination with English.

Participate in online open translation projects, with a certain degree of freedom to choose what you translate, and the opportunity to connect with established translation communities.

Develop your professional skills with a combination of collaborative activities and peer-reviews.

The Open University is recognised as a Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL) UK HE registered provider (CIOL) and is a Corporate Member of the Institute of Translation & Interpreting (ITI). We are also institutional members of the Association of Programmes in Translation and Interpreting Studies of the UK and Ireland (APTIS).