The course focuses exclusively on literary translation and combines translation practice with translation theory. Recently described by its external examiner Dr Francis Jones as 'deservedly a UK leader in literary translation studies', this innovative course has been training literary translators for nearly two decades. The MA is a one-year full-time or two-year part-time course. It provides an academic qualification for professional translators and is also a good basis for further research. Three compulsory modules in Translation Theory and History, Case Studies, Process and Product in Translation, are supplemented by an optional module chosen from an exciting list of modules offered to students across the MA programmes of the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing. In addition, as a student on MALT you will be asked, in the first semester, to assemble a dossier of your translations for submission to a tutor, an expert in their source or target language of your choice. The year-long practical translation workshops help you prepare for your dissertation, which can take the form either of a critical project or of a translation with commentary.