Master in Multimedia Translation

The recommended profile is that of a licensed/graduated person with the following characteristics:

• Concern, curiosity and sensitivity for the manifestations of languages and the different cultural manifestations of the country, as well as for the cultural, economic, social and political events that occur in the world.
• Interest in international business and institutional communication.
• Sensitivity to the appreciation of communication as a complex phenomenon in a changing and dynamic society.
• Basic skills for written and reading expression and comprehension.
• Basic skills for intercultural communication.
• Ability to accept cultural diversity.
• Basic skills and sensitivity for managing information access tools.
• Ability to generate creative solutions to problems.
• Basic social skills for teamwork.

Each student must take 60 credits:

• 18 credits of compulsory subjects (complete theoretical-methodological module)
• 30 credits of elective subjects (5 of the 6 subjects offered)
• 6 credits of External Practices (PE)
• 6 credits of Master's Final Project (TFM)

General competitions

• Recognize the most appropriate theoretical models in the field of multimedia translation.
• Skillfully handle the most relevant technological and computer tools for use in professional contexts.
• Execute translation procedures and techniques for different multimedia products.
• Identify the cultural contexts involved, norms and standards.
• Demonstrate a critical spirit in the face of cultural and practical phenomena when transferring them.
• Develop knowledge, skills and abilities that allow incorporation into professional practice in the field of multimedia translation.
• Manage, prepare and review multimedia translation projects.
• Select a research object, formulate hypotheses, use an appropriate methodology, analyze and present results
• Know advanced elements and techniques of multimedia translation in its different specialties.
• Perform an analysis of the TO and its order and select an appropriate transfer strategy.
• Apply the knowledge acquired and have the ability to solve problems.
• Defend your translation work before specialized and non-specialized audiences.
• Know the concepts of culturality, interculturality, transculturality and miscegenation.
• Detect, analyze and adequately resolve cultural transfer problems in different multimedia products.
• Relate the culturality of the original multimedia product to the corresponding social environment and target recipients.
• Modulate culturality-origin in attention to different target recipients.
• Critically review different meta-versions with special attention to the culturality of the final recipients.

​Specific competencies

Know in depth the theoretical models that deal with multimedia translation.

• Carry out documentary searches for multimedia translation.
• Know in depth the institutions, norms and standards.
• Identify and know in depth the intercultural aspects involved.
• Know in depth the appropriate transfer procedures and techniques for different multimedia products and know how to justify the decisions made.
• Handle the most relevant technological tools for this type of translation.
• Know in depth and describe multimedia texts.
• Identify informational problems in said texts.
• Apply documentary search protocols in multimedia translation processes.
• Use the relevant technological tools in documentary searches linked to this type of translation.
• Be able to offer different solutions in response to the culturality of the final recipients.
• Have an adequate and reliable critical method for reviewing the final product, with special attention to cultural brands.
• Know in depth different models of cultural analysis.
• Identify and delimit informational problems in translation.
• Develop and test hypotheses that explain the different translation problems.
• Deepen your knowledge of multimedia translation and its strategies.
• Develop critical capacity for OT and for the evaluation of terminographic, lexicographic and documentary tools, according to their usefulness for multimedia translation.
• Develop a systematic research methodology for documentary search and a terminological consultation protocol for multimedia translation.
• Be responsible for all solutions to the translated text and be able to justify them.
• Design, plan and carry out research work.
• Master the skills of writing an academic paper.
• Demonstrate and apply knowledge of multimedia translation and its strategies.
• Identify and define translation problems.
• Critically analyze OT and evaluate and satisfactorily use terminographic, lexicographic and documentary tools, according to their usefulness for multimedia translation.
• Apply a systematic research methodology of documentary search and a terminological consultation protocol for multimedia translation.
• Be responsible for all solutions to the translated text and be able to justify them.
• Design, plan and carry out a multimedia translation project.
• Assign priorities to the different translation tasks involved in a multimedia translation project.
• Develop and apply teamwork skills.

• Knowledge of the different modalities of audiovisual translation and their techniques (significance codes of audiovisual text, stages of the dubbing process, subtitling and voice-overs, translation techniques for dubbing, subtitling and voice-overs).
• Knowledge of the different computer tools to successfully carry out the translation of web pages, computer products and video games.
• Knowledge of analysis models that will allow rigorous criticism, always in search of the quality of the final translated product.
• Knowledge of the business environment that provides professional opportunities for multimedia translation specialists.