LECTURER: Hello. My name is Helene Jaccomard. I'm the coordinator at UWA
of Translation Studies. And I want to share with you
what is (INAUDIBLE) offer
and why you should take a postgraduate degree in Translation Studies.
So, I'll try to give you as much information as possible
in this very short time.
So, I'll cover briefly course information, the fact that this degree
has a great deal of practical experience embedded in it.
We have overseas studies opportunities as well
for you to take advantage of.
And what do you do with a degree in Translation Studies
at the end of your studies? And, sort of, will summarise at the end
the main reasons why, I believe that you should study
Translation Studies at UWA.
So, we offer our degrees in eight languages.
That means English, and one or the other
of four Asian or four European languages.
That means that we train you in translating into Chinese, for instance,
and also, from Chinese into English.
We teach you to translate in both directions, as we say.
The first degree we have is a short,
a six months or longer degree. If you do it part time,
that's a Graduate Certificate in Translation Studies.
It's a kind of a taster.
If you enjoy it, you can actually progress
to a graduate diploma or to the Master of Translation itself.
But it's a good basis to give you an idea
of what we mean by Translation Studies because it's,
it's actually quite an art to translate properly.
So, you want to know a li'l bit more about the history,
about the various translation tools that we use these days
that make life a li'l bit easier.
And, this degree will, sort of, give you a bit of a grounding.
So you can start with a graduate certificate.
Leave with a graduate certificate if you want.
But if you're really interested, you can also keep on going
and upgrade if you want, to another degree.
So the Master of Translation Studies is a longer degree, obviously.
You take it in one and a half years or two years,
according to what you've done during your undergraduate studies.
So there, we, of course, do a little bit more than what we do
for the graduate certificate and you learn about ethics,
about very technical stuff as well.
You learn about the other disciplines, how they have
helped understanding Translation Studies better.
You have a much broader knowledge. And also, you can decide
in your second year, for instance, to take the coursework
and dissertation pathway, which allows you to write a thesis
and do some research in Translation Studies.
And that's a path that students who are interested in PhD studies,
so even going a bit further in their postgraduate studies,
that's the path that they choose.
You do a research of some,
sort of, magnitude during your Master.
And then you can continue on to a PhD if you are interested,
or, just that means that you are able to do
good research in Translation Studies
and that can be useful in, for your future career as well.
Oops! I went a bit too fast. I'm very excited about this new degree
that we've created for students who are both interested
in Commerce and Translation Studies.
So, usually bilingual students who, and, they don't want to
just narrow their career path. They want to open their career paths
by taking this degree, which is actually a very,
it complements each other. Studying commerce
and studying translations really complement each other.
That's what I'm trying to say to you.
It's also the only degree of this kind in the whole of Australia.
So it's really worth considering.
So you've, basically, put two skill sets together
and you increase, obviously, your chances for a bit of
(INAUDIBLE).
So this takes long, a bit longer.
If you have done a business degree in your undergraduate studies,
it takes two and a half years. If you haven't,
it takes three years.
But that's still less than doing one and then the other.
If you combine them, you are still doing it in a shorter time.
And the same thing, you can decide to do a bit of research as well
during your studies. So, you still have the same opportunities and options.
For instance, you can do an internship, a work placement.
So it can be physical, meaning, you actually go to a host,
as we call them. And it can also be virtual,
so you don't have to go anywhere. And at the moment,
that's what we offer to our students. So, we have some hosts
that have been happy to train our students
for six weeks at a time.
And that is an invaluable experience
for our Translation Studies students.
But you can also, if you have other ideas,
if you have other contacts, you can also decide
to choose your own host and we help you with that.
For instance, one of our students wanted to work for a publishing house.
So she did her internship with a publishing house in Shanghai
and ended up being employed by them.
Another student, she was interested in doing online journalism.
Did an internship with an online magazine,
entertainment magazine, and they ended up employing her.
And she now supervises some of our interns that we sent there.
So it's really quite interesting.
So, it's an opportunity for students to start building, if you want,
the network and maybe, even finding a job.
So this is what Bei Zhou said about her experience at UWA.
And she really enjoyed this practical experience.
I mentioned the fact that you can do a bit of your studies abroad.
So you can do up to one semester, for instance,
at a Chinese university, at an Italian university,
at a French university, as the case may be.
So this is the sort of things that we can organise as well.
So what do you do with a degree in Translation Studies?
Of course, the higher the degree, the more likely that your career
will start quicker and will go further.
But, the obvious thing, of course, is you're gonna become
a professional translator. Within professional translation,
there are actually, quite a few (INAUDIBLE) jobs.
You can be a terminologist, for instance.
You can be someone who's gonna build translation memories for a team.
You can work in multiple languages as well.
You can be, you can become a foreign language copywriter,
which is quite in demand in the media.
A language services manager is something that,
could be, sort of, the continuation of a career.
So you are at the middle of your career, let's say,
where you have enough experience to manage a team of translators
for a corporation, for instance, and, or an agency.
And there, that means that you have to organise people's tasks,
oversee that everything is done properly by deadlines,
by format, by what the client's brief are.
So it's a managerial role, really.
And I also point out to students,
a profession that is not very well-known yet,
but it is in high demand.
And that's being an intercultural consultant.
And just, you can imagine in this globalised world,
companies want to branch out to countries they have
absolutely no knowledge about. You're there. You're an expert
in that country and you can tell them what the conventions are,
what the rules of business are, well, what is expected
and you obviously, would have to, do a little bit of research
to make sure that you put together documents in one or two languages
that will be able to help your company achieve their aims.
So, intercultural consultant covers a lot of translation business
if you have that other skills as well,
which is something that we train our students in, as well.
Right. So what is special about our course?
Well, it's taught by a young, both academics and practitioners.
I'm an academic. However, I was a practitioner in translation.
In the past, I was translating from and into French and Italian at the time.
And so I've kept abreast of what, how the profession has evolved.
But some of my colleagues, they are mainly practitioners,
translators or interpreters in their language or languages,
and they also like to pass on their expertise,
their wisdom, by teaching at UWA. So you get the best of both worlds.
People, researchers like myself, with a bit of knowledge of the industry,
and people who are currently in the industry.
You can go and do your studies, as I said, abroad,
or do an internship abroad or here. You can also take advantage of
good contacts, very close contacts
with the professional organisations in WA, in Australia, and overseas.
So, for instance, there are workshops that we organise
with our professional partners, the webinars, mentorship programs.
So there's a lot of things that, basically prepare you
for your job and your career.
So, number four is a bit, my way of saying, it's,
these degrees are passports to exciting careers
for language enthusiasts. So, a way to capitalise on,
what you are good at, languages. And also, bit of...
technical point here, but is quite essential.
The course is endorsed by our national body.
So students can be accredited or certified by them
once they're graduated. And this is...
really, a prestigious thing to have, this accreditation or certification.
And we are very proud that we have been endorsed by NAATI.
And finally, for domestic students, the Commonwealth Government
has accepted our application to support places.
That means, you as a domestic student, for instance, you can have a,
do a big saving on the fees. And this is brand new,
just starting now and we're very pleased that we managed to convince
the federal government that translation study matter,
for Australia. And that, it should be reflected in the support
that students get when they study Translation Studies.
So, with this, I hope I've convinced you that you should really do
Translation Studies at UWA.
And if you need more information, here is my email.
So, I'll see you soon, I hope!