Translation University of Sharjah

Overview

Young men and women graduating with a Master’s Degree from the Translation program at the University of Sharjah are expected to competently fill key positions in these fields and to contribute to the ongoing process of modernization and development in the United Arab Emirates.

Objectives

• To provide students with the basic theoretical principles of the major approaches to translation.

• To acquaint students with the characteristic discourse features of various Arabic and English text types (legal, business, journalistic, political, religious, scientific, etc.) and to give them intensive training in translating these texts.

• To promote students' awareness of the (a) relationship between culture and translation, (b) cross-cultural differences and similarities between English and Arabic and, (c) translation traditions and trends characteristic of the two languages.

• To promote the transfer of Arab and Islamic culture to English -speaking countries.