Intercultural Communication & Translation
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The Master’s program aims to activate the multilingual and intercultural expertise acquired in the pre-Master’s program in various professional environments.
ISIT graduates have a strong general culture, are agile in an international environment, have a solid understanding of intercultural issues, and are able to grasp the complexity of globalized organizations and activities.
The Master’s degree in Intercultural Communication and Translation trains professionals capable of managing multilingual translation and communication projects.
Faculty
- Professional translators
- Professional speakers
- Research and academic teachers
Educational objectives
- To train students in the current and evolving fields of translation, as well as in communication and big data.
- To train students capable of organizing, planning and managing all communication activities in foreign languages using multilingual and multimedia tools.
- To train profiles capable of managing international communication projects in an intercultural context.
Operational skills acquired at the end of the specialisation
- Multilingual communication: general and specialised translation, sight translation, CAT, technical writing, terminology, website and software localization, post-editing, liaison interpretation, multilingual professional speaking.
- Internal and external communication: community management, communication plan, web marketing and SEO, multilingual web site and content creation, multilingual project management.
- Project management: methodologies and tools.
Courses
Year 4
CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
- UX Design
- Intercultural Intelligence
- Visual Organization of Information
- Web Interface Creation
- Professional Speaking Skills
- Business Languages
- Sight Translation
COMMUNICATING IN AN INTERCULTURAL & MULTILINGUAL CONTEXT
- Revision and Post-Editing
- Business Management
- Project Management 1
- Corporate Communication
- Digital Communication: Basics, Careers, Tools
- Writing, Translating, Communicating
- General Comparative Terminology
- Technical Translation
- Economic and Financial Translation
- Marketing
- SEO Translation
CAREER SUPPORT
- Leadership and self-marketing
- Careers forum
- Internship (3 months min.)
RESEARCH
- Communication and translation theories
- Intercultural theories
- Translation methodology
- Research methodology – Level 1
- Dissertation (over 2 years)
- Applied research project or entrepreneurship program
A choice of specializations: Translation & terminology OR Communication & web tools
Year 5
DEVELOPING YOUR PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
- Image & Brand Communication
- International Communication
- Translation of Business
- Communications into B Languages
ADAPTING TO INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTS
- Agile Project management Web
- Site Creation
COMMUNICATING IN AN INTERCULTURAL & MULTILINGUAL CONTEXT
- Digital Interfaces and Cultures
- Intercultural Communication
- Digital Behavior and Cultures
TRANSLATING & INTERPRETING IN SPECIALIST FIELDS
- Website Translation from all languages studied
- Sight Translation from all languages studied
- Legal Translation from all languages studied
CAREER SUPPORT
- Careers Forum
- Leadership and self-marketing
- Report on activities & achievements
- Internship (at least 6 months) or 1-year sandwich/work-study course
RESEARCH
- Applied research project or pre-incubator program (on application)
- Research methodology workshop – Level 2
- Research dissertation
A choice of specializations: Translation OR Communication
Two possible double degrees in Year 5
- METS- European Mobility in Specialized Translation” Program
Accessible only after a fourth year at ISIT, the METS offers translation students a year to become professional, intercultural translation specialists through a unique program with the quality standards of the 12 METS partners.
- The double degree with the Paris Diderot University:
accessible on selection after a 4th year at ISIT only, this double degree course leads to the Master in Intercultural Communication and Translation (ISIT) and the Master in Language Industry and Specialized Translation (ILTS).
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Getting ready to apply
Prerequisites
Languages
Our course is open to candidates with an operational linguistic level in their mother tongue and two other working languages: French and English are compulsory, and the third working language can be chosen from among Arabic, Chinese, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish.
Possibility of having a 4th operational language among the official languages of ISIT
Degree level
- Admission in year 4 : L3 validée
- Admission in year 5: Master 1 universitaire ou équivalent validé (diplôme français ou étranger en 4 ans reconnu officiellement de niveau 240 ECTS)
WARNING: For the Intercultural Communication and Translation specialization, the M1 or equivalent must be related to translation and multilingual communication.
Past papers
- Consult the bibliography for admission to the master’s program
- Find below the subjects of the previous admissions sessions
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| German into language A |  | |
| English into language A | | |
| Arabic into language A | | |
| Chinese into language A | | |
| Spanish into language A | | |
| French into language A | | |
| Italian into language A | | |
| Russia into language A | |