MA/MS in Audiovisual Translation

This master's programme trains translators to work across the range of audiovisual translation methods, including subtitling and surtitling, voice-over, dubbing and the adaptation of content for audiences with hearing or sight impairments, as well as the localisation of software and websites. Coursework covers translation theory and technology, editing practice in the Lithuanian language, and the analysis of texts that combine several modes of communication, before moving into specialised areas such as interlingual and intralingual subtitling, voice-over and dubbing research, audio description, and script writing for dubbed productions, with an additional strand translating from a second foreign language. Students complete an audiovisual project carried out with outside partners over two semesters and finish with a thesis combining research and practice. Graduates are described as prepared for work as film and television translators and subtitlers, script writers for dubbing or voice-over, localisation specialists for games and software, and translators within media or international organisations, or for further doctoral study.