Objectives of general skills

• Linguistic Skills - Apply linguistic knowledge to the practice of translation or interpretation.
• Master the French language at level C2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
• Master the foreign languages at level C2 in reading and listening, and level C1 in writing and speaking.
• Continuously assess and maintain said linguistic knowledge;
• Transmit a message expressed in another language, orally or in writing, all the while respecting the intention, the target audience, the linguistic register and the objectives of the original language and message.
• Cultural and Intercultural Competency - Utilise intercultural knowledge in order to understand, analyse, and contextualise in the practice of translation.
• Be familiar with the political, social and cultural environment of the working language and the chosen foreign languages, as well as a sustained effort to keep abreast of all new developments in those areas.
• Able to recognise the socio-cultural components underlying an oral or written text.
• Analyse the assumptions, implicit or explicit, allusions, stereotypes and intertextuality of any oral or written document.
• Thematic Competency - Develop and apply thematic knowledge related to domains in which translation is practised.
• Identify what information and documentation is required.
• Master the strategies, tools and techniques needed for carrying out documentary or terminological research.

Language Combination

Unité d’enseignement de la combinaison linguistique

UE's Learning outcomes

Students will be proficient in English at C1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

At the end of the first module of the master in translation, students will be able to:

- understand the challenges of general translation and make the necessary research to solve those challenges;

- translate general texts in written and with a high degree of precision, in a correct French and in the appropriate style;
- translate and/or summarize general texts orally, without any mistranslations and at the normal rhythm of speech delivery.  

UE Content

Analysis of and commentary on textual and audiovisual documents selected for their relevance to the socio-cultural context of the studied language.
 Activities targeting linguistic and cultural knowledge, but also discursive, functional and heuristic skills.


Written translation of non-specialized texts of variable length and style, with highlighting of the common translation pitfalls and of the intertextual conventions in the source and target language.
Oral translation, exhaustive or summarized, of shorter general texts. 

Prior experience

Not applicable

Term 1 for Integrated Assessment - type

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Term 2 for Integrated Assessment - type

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Term 3 for Integrated Assessment - type

• N/A

Resit Assessment for IT - Term 1 (B1BA1) - type

• N/A