Master of Arts (Interpreting, Translation and Transcultural Communication)

Facilitate understanding

This two-year degree is for students fluent in both Chinese and English seeking a career as a professional interpreter and/or translator.

It has received qualification endorsement of the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI).

In our Master of Arts (Interpreting, Translation and Transcultural Communication) you'll:

• take courses in cultural and social studies
• explore approaches to cross-cultural communication
• build practical interpreting and translation skills
• undertake a professional internship
• complete a research project in transcultural communication and/or translation.

When you graduate, you'll be eligible to take NAATI's Certified Interpreter and Certified Translator tests. From here you might become a medical, judiciary or literary translator. You could pursue interpreting roles in business, tourism, education or public relations. Perhaps you'll work with government alongside foreign affairs ministers. You may also continue on to do a PhD in the Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics.

• Strong predicted employment growth for interpreters and translators^
• use skills to prevent avoidable misunderstandings
• Degree endorsed by NAATI

^Imip.gov.au, Job predictions