Translation with a Placement Year Abroad Cardiff University

Overview

Throughout the Translation with a Placement Year Abroad  course from  Cardiff University you’ll gain high-level language and communication skills, excellent intercultural and critical-thinking competences, as well as an in-depth understanding of the professional contexts of translation. Furthermore, you’ll foster resilience and independence through time spent in immersive foreign language contexts.

Our BA Translation with a Placement Year Abroad equips you well for a translation career and for a range of jobs where language skills are an asset. Moreover, by studying translation you’ll acquire a wealth of transferable skills and knowledge beneficial to the wider world of employment, making you competitive and attractive in an increasingly global workforce and opening the doors to a variety of other career paths.

You can choose to study translation with one or two* of the following languages: 

• French
• German
• Italian
• Portuguese
• Spanish
• Japanese 
• Chinese

We run two programme pathways. One for those with an A-level or equivalent competence in a modern language (Upper Elementary) and one for those with limited or no knowledge of a modern language (Elementary).

Career opportunities:

Work experience and placements are great opportunities to enhance your employability and career prospects and can help you make decisions about your future career plans. Our Translation with a Placement Year Abroad (BA) programme includes placement learning as an integral element of your degree programme.

We’re committed to helping you achieve your professional ambitions, providing you with the skills, curiosity and confidence to make your mark in a competitive job market. Whether you have a clear idea of what you’d like to do after university, or no idea at all, we have the tools and support to guide you.

Each semester we advertise On-Campus Internships which are summer vacation opportunities for students to work under supervision on education innovation, professional services, and staff-defined research projects.

Our graduates flourish in the job market. Their translation and language degrees lead them into a diverse and exciting range of careers which have included in-house translation, interpreting, the media, travel, finance, human resources, international sport liaison roles, business consultancy, education, health, politics, diplomacy, the Civil Service, law and teaching.