Degrees
Bachelor's Degree in Translation and Interpreting

Bachelor's Degree in Translation and Interpreting

Study guides

Title of qualification awarded

Translation and Interpreting

Timetables

Mornings

Study plan information

Table of credits for each course

  Basic training Compulsory Optional Bachelor's Degree Final Project
1st year 48 12    
2nd year 18 42    
3rd year   48 12  
4th year   18 36 6
Totals 66 120 48 6


Very important: Information syllabus.

Period of study

Year-long

Part-time or full-time

Full-time (the UAB offers a slow track, consisting of a minimum of 30 annual credits, to enable students to work and study at the same time).

Specialisations

Basic and compulsory training

1st year 2nd year
  • Catalan Language: Standard Uses or Catalan as a Foreign Language 1 (1)
  • Spanish Language: Standard Uses 
  • First Foreign Language: Informational Uses (2)
  • Second Foreign Language and Culture 1 (3)
  • Translation Methodology
  • Digital Editing Techniques
  • Catalan Language: Variation and Appropriateness or Catalan as a Foreign Language 2 (1)
  • Spanish Language: Variation and Appropriateness 
  • First Foreign Language: Narrative Uses
  • Second Foreign Language and Culture 2
  • Text and Context in Translation
  • Multilingual Information Management
  • First Foreign Language: Narrative Uses
  • Second Foreign Language and Culture 3
  • Translation between Catalan and Spanish or Translation from Catalan to Spanish (1)
  • Creative Translation 
  • Interpreting Studies and Methodology
  • Applied Terminology
  • First Foreign Language: Specialised Uses
  • Second Foreign Language and Culture 4
  • History of Translation 
  • Specialised Translation
  • Active Listening and Communication for Interpreting
  • Intercultural Mediation in the First Foreign Language
  • Translation and Interpreting Technologies
3rd year 4th year
  • Second Foreign Language and Translation 1
  • Audiovisual Translation and Accessibility
  • Interpreting Techniques
  • Translation Studies
  • Language Processing
  • Translation in Digital Environments
  • Second Foreign Language and Translation 2
  • Inverse Translation
  • Interpreting Workshop for Business Relations
  • Second Foreign Language and Translation 3
  • Second Foreign Language and Translation 4
  • Bachelor's Degree Final Project 


(1) Alternative subjects are offered for students from other autonomous communities or countries.

(2) The First Foreign Language can be either English or French.

(3) The Second Foreign Language can be: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Russian. Students whose First Foreign Language is French cannot choose French as their Second Foreign Language.

 

Optional subjects

The optional subjects are organised into areas of professional specialisation. All subjects are worth 6 credits unless otherwise specified. The optinal subjects available may change from year to year.

3rd and 4th years

Translation from the First Foreign Language 

  • Scientific and Technical Translation (*)
  • Legal and Financial Translation (*)
  • Translation for the Publishing Industry and Literary Translation (*)
  • Specialised Inverse Translation
  • Multilingual Project Management / 3 cr.

Interpreting from the First Foreign Language

  • Institutions and Interpreting / 3 cr.
  • Mediated Intercultural Communication / 3 cr. 
  • Interpreting Workshop for Education and Community Life
  • Multimedia and Audiovisual Interpreting

Language (Catalan/Spanish)

  • Specialised Language / 3 cr. 
  • Oral Production and Revision / 3 cr.
  • Text Editing and Revision
  • Linguistics Applied to Translation

First Foreign Language

  • Oral Expression in the First Foreign Language / 3 cr. 
  • First Foreign Specialised Language / 3 cr.

Additional Languages 

  • Third Foreign Language and Culture 1 (4)
  • Third Foreign Language and Culture 2
  • English: Informational Uses (5)
  • English: Narrative Uses (5)
  • Second Foreign Language and Culture 1 (6)
  • Second Foreign Language and Culture 2 (6)

Intercultural Mediation and Literature

  • Catalan Culture
  • Spanish Culture
  • Intercultural Mediation in the Second Foreign Language
  • Intercultural Mediation in the Third Foreign Language
  • Catalan Literature 
  • Spanish Literature
  • Literature in the First Foreign Language
  • Literature in the Second Foreign Language

Work Placements

  • Work Placement

(4) The Third Foreign Language may be Czech, Korean, Modern Greek, or Romanian.

(5) English optional subjects are exclusively for students whose first language is French.

(6) A second additional language may be taken as an optional subject.

(*) These optional subjects can be taken in your 4th year.