MA and PhD courses in Translation Studies in Portugal

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Daniela Vitorino Nunes, Nº 158766

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Table of Contents

MA Courses related

to Translation

PHD Courses related

to Translation

• Main Objectives of each course;
• Specificities of each course (Ex: Tuition Fees, Offered Languages, etc)
• Expected career prospects.

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• Main Objectives of each course;
• Specificities of each course (Ex: Tuition Fees, Offered Languages, etc)

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MA Courses

General Overview

• There are 10 master’s degrees related to translation in Portugal;

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• Most degrees are offered in the North and Coast of Portugal;

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• These degrees have a duration of 2 years;

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• Students can choose to finish them with either:
• A dissertation; Project Work; or an Intership.

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Figure 1 – Map of Districts that offer Master Degrees in Translation Studies

Master’s in Translation and Multilanguage Communication�University of Minho

• The university has collaboration protocols with national and international companies, organisms, and partner universities. This allows students to partake in national or international internships in, for example, companies;

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• This master’s helps students develop skills in multimedia and multilanguage translation and acquire theoretical and technical skills in multiple areas, such as translation, subtitling, terminology, and more;

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• Students can choose to work with two of these languages: German, Chinese, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese and Russian;

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• Tuition Fees (Annually): National Students - 1250€ / International Students - 2000€;

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• Career Prospects:
• Students can work in translation and publishing companies as translators or editors;
• They can work in tourism with linguistic interfaces;
• Some have also found jobs in business, publishing companies, and cultural industries.

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Master’s in Translation and Language Services�Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (FLUP)

• This faculty is a member of the European Master’s in Translation (EMT) Network since 2009. This Network’s main goal is to improve the quality of translator training to enhance the labor market integration of young professionals. Being a member of the EMT Network has advantages:
• Maintaining close relationships with international universities, which facilitates student and teacher mobility and gives students priority access to traineeships with European institutions through ERASMUS agréments;
• Having priority with the DGT’s Visiting Translators Scheme. This is a program where DGT staff who know or are learning one of the EU’s official languages can be sent to a university in a country where the language is spoken.

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• This course aims to offer a theoretical background in Translation Theory and Intercultural Communication and practical training in technology for professional translation, such as Trados or memoQ;

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• Students can choose to specialize in either Specialized Translation or Translation and Linguistic Services. They must also choose which languages to work with from Portuguese, German, Spanish, French, English, Chinese, Italian, Japanese and Russian;

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• Tuition Fees (Annually):
• National Students – 1250€ / International Students – 4000€.

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• Career Prospects:
• Professional translation, Specialized Translation, Localization, Revision, Editing, Subtitling, and Technical communication.

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Master’s in Translation

NOVA University of Lisbon – Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA – FCSH)

Faculty of Human Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University (FCH)

Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (FLUL)

• This course allows students to acquire theoretical, methodological and technical knowledge in translation studies and the practices of translation;

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• It gives students the opportunity to create investigation projects in specific areas such as literary, pragmatic, scientific or technical translation;

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• Students must choose a language to work with from German, French, or English;

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• Tution Fees (Annually): National student - 1200€ / International Student – 2500€.

• This degree focuses on students who are interested in deepening their reflections around translation and in developing skills across four fields: juridical, economic, literary, and audiovisual;

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• The private Faculty has a partnership with Memsource which grants students free access to the translation tool;

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• Tuition Fees: 1st Year – 4200€ / 2nd Year – 3180€;

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• Students can expect to work in translation, business relations, international relations, and government relations.

• FLUL is also a member of the EMT Network;

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• This degree allows students to develop fundamental scientific, technical, and technological skills;

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• It gives students the opportunity to practice translation in different specialized environments, such as audiovisual translation;

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• Tuition Fees (Annually): 1200€.

Summary Table of Master Degrees

PHD Courses

General Overview

• There are 4 PhD courses offered in Portugal;

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• 1 course is offered in Porto, 1 in Coimbra and 2 in Lisbon.

Figure 2 – Map of Districts that offer PHD Degrees in Translation Studies

PhD in Language Sciences�Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (FLUP)

• This 3 year course helps students develop the capacity of autonomous investigation, systematization, and elaboration of works in fundamental research applied in 4 areas of studies: linguistics, technologies of the human languages, processing of natural language, translation and didactic language;

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• Tuition Fees (Annually): National Students – 2750€ / International Student – 6000€;

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• Students can expect to find work in groups and projects of multidisciplinar investigation related to language, advisory linguistics, teaching maternal and non-maternal languages, computanional linguistic, lexicography and terminology, translation and interpretation, and forensic linguistics.

PhD in Modern Languages: Cultures, Literature and Translation �Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra (FLUC)

• This degree works with diverse projects, from the History of Translation in Portugal to the study of the reception of certain national literature and cultures in Portugal;

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• This course lasts 4 years and students must pay 1425€ annually;

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• Students can expect to work as investigators, professor, translators, editors and in national and international culture industries.

Phd in Translation Studies�NOVA University of Lisbon – Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities in association with Faculty of Human Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University

• This degree was created by the Centre of Studies of Communication and Culture and CETAPS – Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies to broaden the understading of translation as a cultural phenomenon;

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• The course lasts 3 years;

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• Tuition Fees (Annually):2.750€.

Phd in Translation Terminology �NOVA University of Lisbon – Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities in association with University of Aveiro

• This degree helps students acquire fundamental knowledge of the theoretical and methodological framing in the áreas of study.;

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• It grants students a chance to gain pratical knowledge of certain áreas such as translation, terminology processes and products, and technological environments;

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• The course lasts 3 years;

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• Tuition Fees (Annually): National Student - 2000€ / International Student – 2500€.

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Summary Table of PhD Degrees

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