The Doctorate in Translation and Intercultural Studies provides training to researchers, with particular emphasis on research methods and techniques, culminating in the doctoral thesis. The course also aims to consolidate the diversity of approaches and the balance between basic and applied research. This provides for a rich intellectual atmosphere, which is absolutely vital in order to achieve high-quality doctoral research.

The teaching objectives are as follows:

• Students should attain systematic knowledge and a capacity for critical analysis, assessment and synthesis of the theoretical foundations of Translation, Intercultural Studies or Modern East Asia.
• Students should develop a firm grasp of the research skills and methods related to Translation, Intercultural Studies or Modern East Asia.
• Students should be able to conceive, design and carry out research in Intercultural Studies or Modern East Asia.
• Students should be able to describe the process they used for their research and the results obtained while taking into account their audience.

Structure

Registering the thesis

 Once students have been accepted on the Doctorate in Translation and Intercultural Studies, they must:

• Register their thesis with the Department of Translation and Interpreting. The registration lasts for three years, and can be renewed with the approval of the Department.
• Complete the necessary enrolment each year.

Pre-project

To register the thesis, students must submit a thesis pre-project, which must include:

• Reasons for the chosen research project (personal reasons, lack of research in the field, purpose of the work, etc)
• Previous work (brief state of the art)
• Objectives (the main objectives, clearly defined)
• Hypothesis (definition of the initial hypothesis)
• Methods (methods they intend to use)
• Corpus (if applicable, the type of corpus they will use)
• Stages (planning and specifying the various stages)
• Structure (planned structure in sections, chapters, etc)
• Basic bibliography

Control and evaluation

Students shall receive their training and work towards the objectives by attending doctoral seminars, orientation sessions and meetings with their thesis supervisor and by discussing their research. The schedule is as follows:

• First year: Students present the bibliographical state of the art (first semester) and the thesis project (second semester) to the thesis supervisor.
• Second year: Students present the progress they have made in their research to a board of lecturers from the Department. This presentation is not public and is not graded. It serves to provide students with advice and ideas for the development of their research.
• Third year: Students defend their thesis.

This project must be approved by the thesis supervisor and, if applicable, the tutor, and must be approved by the executive committee of the body responsible for the Doctorate or by whoever this body chooses.

Areas of research

• History of Translation
• Translation Teaching
• Empirical-Experimental Studies
• Literary Translation
• Technical Translation
• Intercultural Studies
• Comparative Studies
• Translation and Ideology
• ICTs ("tradumàtica")
• Modern East Asia

• AutoTrad (Translation Theory and Self-Translation)
• Étienne Dolet (Interdisciplinary Studies and Translation)
• Grelt (Teaching Language for Translators)
• Inter-Àsia (Interculturality in East Asia)
• Marpaterm (Translation, Terminology and Cultural Transfer — Tibetan Buddhism in the West)
• Pacte (Acquisition of Translation Competence and Assessment)
• T-1611 (Translation and Hispanic Cultures History)
• Tradumàtica (Translation and New Technologies)
• Transmèdia (Media Translation)
• Trellat (Translation Studies and Catalan Language)

Research lecturers (tutors)

Visiting lecturers

Celia Magalhaes. Univeridad Federal de Minas Gerais (Brasil)
Fabio Alves. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brasil)
Lawrence Venuti, Temple University (US)
Andrew Chesterman, University of Helsinki (Finland)
Rosemary Arrojo, Binghamton University (US)
Gabriela Saldanha, Birmingham Univerity (UK)
Naoki Sakai,Cornell University (US)

Monographic Seminars

Seminar	Lecturer	Year
Cohesión de textos, coherencia de registro y de género.	Celia Magalhaes	2006-7
Conocimiento experto en traducción: una perspectiva procesual.	Fabio Alves	2006-7
Translation Theory and Practice: Communicative vs. Hermeneutic Model	Lawrence Venuti	2006-7
The study of translation relation.	Andrew Chesterman	2006-7
An Introduction to Postmodern approaches to Translation	Rosemary Arrojo	2006-7
Research Methodology and Publishing Academic Articles in the field of Translation Studies in the field of Translation Studies	Gabriela Saldanha	2007-8
Language as a Countable and the Regime of Translation	Naoki Sakai	2007-8

Admission requirements and administrative procedures

To be admitted, students must have earned a master's degree in a field related to the Doctorate they wish to take (Translation, Intercultural Studies and Modern East Asia), awarded by a university in Europe or elsewhere in the world.

Students may also be admitted to the Doctorate if they have earned at least 60 credits in official postgraduate programmes or hold an official master's degree, provided that they have completed at least 300 credits in their undergraduate and postgraduate studies in fields related to this Doctorate. Students whose previous studies are not related to Translation, Intercultural Studies or Modern East Asia must take between 10 and 30 ECTS credits from the master's degree in Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies or Research in Modern East Asia. The students must have defended a research project before a board. This research project must be equivalent to at least 15 ECTS credits. Any students who have not done this must take Module 4 of the master's degree in Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies or Research in Modern East Asia, for which 15 ECTS credits are awarded.

The admission board selects students based purely on scientific and academic criteria (academic record, CV and, if applicable, an interview).

For more information:

University website: http://www.uab.cat/

Doctorate Coordinator: Dr Lucia Molina [lucia.molina@uab.cat] tel. +34 93 581 28 25

Doctorate Administration: Natacha Estremera [natalia.estremera@uab.cat] tel. +34 93 581 34 19

Students enrolled

2007-2008:  Students enrolled in the Doctoral Program in Translation and Intercultural Studies: 9

2007-2008:  Students enrolled in the research itinerary of the Master in Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies: 45

2007-2008:  Students enrolled in the Research Master in Contemporary East Asian Studies: 6

Assessment questionnaire