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MA in Spanish?

  • 10-08-2009 5:49pm
    #1
    allandanyways
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,960 ✭✭✭


    Anybody done it/know anything about it aside from what's on the website? Thinking of doing it in 2010


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  • #2
    vix
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    Hi,
    I'm doing this masters now-actually writing up my dissertation for it at the moment.
    I don't know if they're changing any part of the course or not but I went for the translation side of it. You can also do literature if you prefer that. There aren't many classes a week (I had 9 hours in the first semester, less in the second) but there is a lot of work to do. The Spanish dept. are really helpful so you should email them if you have any questions about the course at all.


  • #3
    allandanyways
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,960 ✭✭✭allandanyways


    Thanks so much for the reply, I'd be aiming for the translation side of the programme aswell, can you describe it in detail for me? Did you find it very challenging?


  • #4
    vix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭vix


    No bother!

    The translation side involves a theory module (Translation Studies) -pretty much what it says on the tin- just the theories about translation. It's only in the first semester. Then you have the option of Intercultural Communication-its not a bad class, it's quite interesting. The whole idea is that you take other cultures into account when translating/ interpreting.

    There are interpreting and translation methodology and text modules. You can do both I think. I did the methodology one, which was translating using the Trados computer program. They teach you how to use it and you're given a text to prepare every week, you go in,use the programme and then send it to the lecturer.

    There are two "Spanish" classes each week. One is translation (again). In the first semester it was English- Spanish, in the second it was Spanish- English. The other class was on different subjects-there were different lecturers who would discuss different topics like sociolinguistics, Cuba etc. through Spanish. There's a dissertation as well.
    I hope that isn't confusing and its helpful.


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