MA in Literary Translation

Introduction
Programme Outline
Optional Modules
Studying at Swansea
How to Apply
 

Introduction
This well-established programme is designed to offer both an independent scheme of study for advanced linguists and a practical and theoretical training for those wishing to pursue a career in literary translation. It is also suitable for practising translators who do not yet have but wish to gain formal qualifications. If you have a single or joint honours degree in Modern Languages, if you are an EU student who has studied English or Translation Studies, or if you are simply keen to study further, this flexible programme will give you a unique opportunity to develop your interests.

• 1 year full time, 2-3 years part time
• Work in either one or two languages + English
• Catalan, French, German, Spanish and Welsh available
• Balance of practical and theoretical translation modules
• Optional modules in critical theory, literature and culture
• Excellent facilities, superb seaside location

Programme Outline
The MA is a modular programme totalling 180 credits. All students take:

• Translation Theory (semester 1; 20 credits)
• History of Translation (semester 2; 20 credits)
• Language Pair 1: Literary Translation in both directions (semesters 1 + 2; 20 + 20 credits)
• Dissertation or Extended Translation for Part 2 (60 credits)

The remaining 40 credits of Part 1 are chosen from the following optional modules:

• Language Pair 2: Literary Translation in both directions (semesters 1 + 2; 20 + 20 credits)
• Introduction to Contemporary Critical Theory (semesters 1 + 2; 20 credits) + Literature/Culture module (20 credits)
• Literature/Culture module (40 credits)
• The full list of optional modules is below.

Optional Modules Translation

Catalan-English Literary Translation (20 credits)
French-English Literary Translation (20 credits)
German-English Literary Translation (20 credits)
Spanish-English Literary Translation (20 credits)
Welsh-English Literary Translation (20 credits)
English-Catalan Literary Translation (20 credits)
English-French Literary Translation (20 credits)
English-German Literary Translation (20 credits)
English-Spanish Literary Translation (20 credits)
English-Welsh Literary Translation (20 credits)

Critical Theory

Introduction to Contemporary Critical Theory (20 credits)

Literature/Culture: English

American Narrative: Fiction and Non-Fiction (40 credits)
Augustan Ventriloquists (40 credits)
Contemporary Scottish Literature (40 credits)
Contemporary Women's Writing (40 credits)
Crime in the Eighteenth Century (40 credits)
Exile Writing: Pound, Bunting, Russell (40 credits)
Female Dramatists of the Restoration (40 credits)
The Female Malady: Women Writing Madness (40 credits)
Film and Genre (40 credits)
Henry James' Later Fiction (40 credits)
Irish Poetry of the Mid-Century (40 credits)
D.H. Lawrence and Psychoanalysis (40 credits)
Meredith and Gissing (40 credits)
Modelling Language (40 credits)
Modern Welsh Writing in English: Beginnings to 1939 (40 credits)
Modern Welsh Writing in English: World War Two and After (to 1959) (40 credits)
Modern Welsh Writing in English: Writing Modern Wales (40 credits)
J.H. Prynne and Contemporary Poetry (40 credits)
The Romantic Sublime (40 credits)
The Seventeenth-Century Lyric (40 credits)
Sexual and Textual Politics of the New Woman (40 credits)
Shakespeare and the Good Society (40 credits)
Studies in the Literature of Hysteria (40 credits)
Tennyson: Verse Drama and Longer Poems (40 credits)
Theorising Postmodernity: Culture, Politics, Aesthetics (40 credits)
'The unsex'd Females': Women Writers and the French Revolution (40 credits)
Writing Northern Ireland Since 1968 (40 credits)

Literature/Culture: French

Narrating the Self I (20 credits)
Narrating the Self II (20 credits)

Literature/Culture: German

Contemporary German Women's Writing (20 credits)
German Literature and Unification (20 credits)
The German Novel I (20 credits)
The German Novel II (20 credits)
Recent Turkish Literature in German (20 credits)

Literature/Culture: Hispanic

Hispanic Fiction I: From Realism to 'Nivola' (20 credits)
Hispanic Fiction II: The 'New' Realism and Magical Realism (20 credits)
Modern Catalan Theatre (20 credits)
Spanish Drama from the 1890's: from Nationalism to Lorca (20 credits)
Spanish Drama in the Post-Civil War Period (20 credits)

Literature/Culture: Welsh

Barddoniaeth yr Oesoedd Canol (20 credits)
Beirniadaeth Lenyddol (20 credits)
Llenyddiaeth yr Ugeinfed Ganrif (20 credits)
Ryddiaith a Diwylliant yr Oesoedd Canol (20 credits)

Studying at Swansea

Swansea University is a medium-sized campus set in the attractive grounds of Singleton Park, on the South Wales coast to the west of the lively city of Swansea (birthplace of the writer Dylan Thomas). The Welsh capital, Cardiff, with its international airport and wealth of cultural facilities, is only an hour to the east by train, coach or car, and beyond Cardiff Swansea is linked by the M4 motorway directly to Heathrow Airport and the city of London. Swansea lies at the entrance to the Gower Peninsula, designated an area of outstanding natural beauty, with its fine sandy beaches and opportunities for swimming, surfing and sailing. Within easy distance lie the hills of the Brecon Beacons National Park. The campus has a sports centre and swimming pool, excellent library and IT facilities, bars, restaurants, shops, a theatre and cinema, and a range of modern and well-equipped accommodation. The atmosphere is friendly and very international, with many students from Europe and all over the world as well as Wales and the rest of the UK.

For an application pack, contact:  

Ms Sandra Dandieu
Department of French
Swansea University
Singleton Park
GB-Swansea SA2 8PP 
sel-pg@swansea.ac.uk
 +44 (0)1792 295968
 +44 (0)1792 295978