Postgraduate Course in Audiovisual Translation
Postgraduate Course in Audiovisual Translation
The Postgraduate Course in Audiovisual Translation will train you as a professional in one of the most enriching specialities in the world of translation: audiovisual translation. With practical learning through various workshops, you will be able to specialize in a dynamic, autonomous, and growing profession.
The Postgraduate Course in Audiovisual Translation is a course that trains you as a professional in translation, audiovisual and multimedia localization (films, series, documentaries, advertising and video games), in dubbing, subtitling, and audiovisual accessibility modalities.
Why choose this program
Master the translation of content in all its formats
You will learn to work on different elements of audiovisual communication: dubbing, subtitling, localization, audio description and even how to translate humour in audiovisual comedy.
Acquire legal and labour knowledge for the development of the profession
You will learn about the aspects of translation covered by the Intellectual Property Law: publishing contracts, moral and proprietary rights, royalties, assignments, etc. You will also learn how to issue invoices and declare your taxes, as well as how to promote yourself with specific tools in the sector.
Work in a real and current professional environment
You will work with current series and films, in dubbing you will meet actors and synchronizers, and you will discover how to work in a dubbing studio.
Networking
You will make contact with prestigious professionals in the sector and expand your network of contacts with other professionals in the world of translation, which will open up new job opportunities.
Who is it for?
This program is open to all who wish to make audiovisual translation their profession. Being a professionalizing postgraduate degree, you can train as a translator regardless of your study profile. The main translation will be from English to Spanish, which requires a good command of both.
This program is structured in:
Curriculum
The training is divided into 3 blocks: a first part of compulsory seminars of common interest, another of compulsory workshops and another of optional workshops.
Of the optional workshops, 3 must be chosen among the different options. It must be taken into account that the workshops will only be held if the minimum number of students established is reached. The choice of workshops will be made in order of enrolment since in some cases there is a maximum number of participants.
Introduction. Mandatory seminars
Mandatory workshops
Optional workshops
Postgraduate Final Project
Complementary activities
BSM Inside is a transversal and interdisciplinary module, common to all master's and postgraduate degrees at UPF Barcelona School of Management, which has been conceived to work on a set of key competencies for professional development in conjunction with the real needs of today's organizations.
This module extends throughout the academic year and is made up of 3 areas of knowledge that constitute the identity traits of the UPF-BSM: Communication; Entrepreneurship and Innovation; and Planetary Well-being and Humanities.
All the subjects of the BSM Inside module are 100% online and have been designed as self-learning subjects: from the first day of the subject until the end of the term you will have all the teaching materials available on the eCampus and you can work with the material and the different activities that it contains at your own pace, according to your availability and in a self-organized way.
Qualification obtained
Once you have passed the program, you will be awarded the degree of Diploma de Postgrado en Traducción Audiovisual, issued by the Pompeu Fabra University.
Nota: Elective courses will be carried out in case of reaching a minimum number of enrolled students. The final offer for each academic year may be adapted depending on the academic planning.
Faculty
Academic directors
Full Professor UPF-BSM
Faculty
Full Professor UPF-BSM
- Victor Alonso Lion
Client Services Director at Pink Noise Studios.
Also specialized in project management, content localization and internationalization.
- Verónica Arnaiz Uzquiza
GIR Coordinator: "Intersemiotics, Translation and New Technologies (ITNT)".
PhD in Translation from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Tenured lecturer at the Department of Spanish Language (Translation and Interpretation Area) in the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting at the Valladolid University.
Verónica also won the 2012 Extraordinary Doctorate Award for her thesis, “Subtitling for the Deaf and the Hard-of-Hearing: Some Parameters and Their Evaluation”.
- Xosé Castro Roig
Freelance Translator
Bachelor in History from the University of Santiago de Compostela
Collaborator on various media outlets, especially radio (Cadena Ser and RNE) and television (Movistar+ and TNT).
- Montse Ferrer Huguet
Founder of Mercutio Vox.
Bachelor’s degree in Romance Language Studies from the University of Barcelona.
Montse is also an approved linguist and translator for the television channel TV3. Since the channel’s inception, she has worked for it as a proofreader and adapter of film scripts and as an English and Spanish translator. During this period she also contributed to the creation of TV3’s first style guide. In 1986 she became an approved external linguist and translator for TV3 and went on to collaborate with the majority of dubbing studios in Barcelona (and several studios in Madrid). In late 1992 she travelled to the United States, where she worked as a lecturer in Catalan. Up until 1996, she taught students at the Department of Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1997 she set up Ferrer i Associats, a company dedicated to providing translation, proofreading and linguistic adaptation services for dubbing and subtitling.
- Aida Franch Arnau
Audiovisual translator and proofreader specializing in translation for dubbing and advertising.
Master in Audiovisual Translation from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Lecturer at Pompeu Fabra University.
- Marta Mateo Martínez-Bartolomé
Executive director of a research centre of the Cervantes Institute at Harvard.
PhD in Philology from the University of Oviedo.
Professor at the University of Oviedo.
She is also a recipient of the 2013 AEDEAN (Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies) Award for Translation.
- Anjana Martínez Tejerina
Freelance translator specialized in subtitling since 2007.
PhD in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Alicante.
Adjunct lecturer at the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at the Pompeu Fabra University.
Anjana also won the 2012 Extraordinary Doctorate Award and is the author of El doblaje de los juegos de palabras (“Dubbing Wordplay”).
- Begoña Martínez Sarra
Audiovisual and literary translator from English and Italian to Spanish and Catalan.
Bachelor’s degree in Translation and Interpreting from Pompeu Fabra University.
Also, she is a certified translator for TV3 since 2007. She has translated more than 500 audiovisual works for different television channels, online platforms, film distributors and film festivals. Among them are 12 years a slave, Rambo IV, The Physician, The Inbetweeners, Peppa Pig, Doctor Who and The Healing Powers of Dude.
She has twenty years of experience in AVT and works with the most important dubbing and subtitling studios in Spain. She teaches courses in associations and universities and knows the sector from the inside since at the beginning she also worked as a staff in studies as a translator and subtitler trainer and as a production assistant.
- Guillermo Parra López
Audiovisual translator specialized in subtitling.
PhD in Translation and Language Sciences.
Lecturer at Pompeu Fabra University.
He is also a winner of a Quality in Teaching Award in 2015 and nominated for an ATRAE (Spanish Association of Audiovisual Translation and Adaptation) Award in 2016 and 2017.
- Rosa Roig González
Audiovisual translator specialized in translation and adaptation for dubbing.
Master in Translation Studies from Pompeu Fabra University.
Since the late 1990s, Rosa has participated in numerous projects in the field of translation, including anime (Doreamon, Detective Conan), animated productions for children (Dreamworks), documentaries, television series, feature films and subtitling. She usually works for clients such as SDI, Deluxe or Televisió de Catalunya, among others.
- Èlia Sala Robert
Translator and accessibility expert since 2010
PhD in Translation and Language Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
Assistant professor of translation and accessibility at the Faculty of Translation and Language Sciences of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She also is a professor in the degree of Translation, Interpretation and Applied Languages at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC).
- Mario Sepúlveda Gutiérrez
Head of Legal Office. Specialist in copyright and Intellectual Property Law.
Bachelor of Law from Universidad de Barcelona
He is a lawyer for various Writers and Translators Associations (ACEtt, ACEC and AELC).
- Stavroula Sokoli
Translator and interpreter.
PhD in Translation Theory from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
She has also coordinated a wide range of projects, including Learning via Subtitling (Socrates, Lingua, 2006-2008) and ClipFlair (LLP, KA2, 2011-2014). She is also a lecturer in Spanish at the Greek Open University, a lecturer in subtitling at Barcelona Autonomous University and Pompeu Fabra University, and a freelance translator and interpreter. She has published more than 20 articles on the subject of audiovisual translation and language learning.
- Cristina Varga
Audiovisual translator (subtitling).
PhD in Linguistic Communication and Multilingual Mediation from Pompeu Fabra University and Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca.
Lecturer in the Department of Applied Modern Languages at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca.
- Daniel Zacarías Suay
Sound designer and re-recording mixer at Insync.
Sound and image technician and Pro Tools expert operator at Alchemea London Engineering.
Lecturer in sound at ESCAC (Catalan School of Cinema and Audiovisual Studies).
Daniel is also the recipient of Goya and Gaudí awards for Bucarest and Bicicleta, Cullera, Poma; the Mestre Mateo Award for Best Sound for Salaó; and the Atlantic Festival Award for Best Sound for Fake Orgasm.
Methodology
The Postgraduate Course in Audiovisual Translation is designed to combine sessions of theoretical presentations with workshops and practical seminars, together with visits to dubbing studios, as well as other activities. The seminars are compulsory, while the participant has the possibility to choose from a large number of workshops. The postgraduate is completed with a final project, tutored by a member of the teaching staff, which reflects the understanding of the training received.
Learn by practising
100% practical orientation towards training, for completely professional learning.
Choose your speciality
You will be able to choose 3 speciality workshops, from among the options we give, so that your learning focuses on what you like the most.
Continuous assessment
Returned, qualitative correction by the teacher of the subject.
Evaluation
The knowledge assessment has an individual basis and is carried out continuously throughout the course, as well as on the basis of the different prepared instalments, the presentations and public defence of the project, and the proactive and constant attitude of the participant.
The evaluation criteria are:
- Process followed by the participant throughout the course: 10%
- Compliance with instalments and milestones: 10%
- Final Project:
- Academic quality of the project: 65%
- Presentation/Oral defence: 15%
Tools
Project-oriented learning and the combination of lectures and active methodologies such as case studies, flipped learning, solving real problems and professional simulations allow the student to connect theory and practice, acquire advanced skills and achieve learning which is transferable to work.
You will have:
- Master's or postgraduate work to learn by doing
- A personal mentor to monitor your Master's Final Project (TFM) or Postgraduate Final Project (TFP)
- Digital resources to achieve transversal skills
- Interdisciplinary activities and workshops
Professional Future
The postgraduate, after more than 10 courses, helps you throughout the process of becoming a translator. With professional teachers in the field and through practical subjects, you will learn about the richness of language and the transfer of knowledge that audiovisual translation can give. You will master the technological tools to undertake dubbing and subtitling, and you will learn to understand contracts and copyrights, to which a professional must be subject. Make your passion your profession.
Student profile
You will share the classroom with students from different parts of Spain, Europe and Latin America, all of them passionate about languages. Most come from translation and interpretation studies and diverse philologies, but each course also has students with other backgrounds, such as film or audiovisual communication.
Career opportunities
Postgraduate job opportunities include a wide range of possibilities. The professional profile of the translator, being mostly autonomous with project work, does not allow the option of professional internships in companies. However, you will have the support and network of teachers of the master who will guide you to look for projects and networks of professionals.
- Intralinguistic internet advertising and information adapter
- Translation (localization and adaptation) of video games and simulations
- Production of subtitles for YouTube and others (TED Talks, Coursera, and similar)
- Production of subtitles for the hearing impaired and similar interlinguistic or intralinguistic subtitling work
- Jobs for online audiovisual content platforms
- Liaison interpreting
- Manager and/or coordinator of translation projects
Admission and enrolment
Our admission process consists of a rigorous evaluation of each application to preserve the quality of the group as well as the training, experience, and work capacity of all students.
Who can apply?
To access the postgraduate course a university degree or higher degree is needed.
Those students who do not have Spanish as one of their mother tongues or who did not have it as a teaching language in their training studies, must prove that they have at least a B2 level of Spanish (Common European Framework of Reference), as well as fluently take part in a personal interview with the academic director, if necessary.
In addition, a minimum of B2 level of English is required to be able to follow the workshops.
How to apply?
To apply for admission to this program, students must read and accept the Terms and Conditions of Contract once they start the application for admission through the following form.
Application for admission
Complete your application within the next admission rounds:
Round | Application deadline | Admission resolution |
---|---|---|
1 | 11/11/2020 | 26/11/2020 |
2 | 03/12/2020 | 18/12/2020 |
3 | 17/12/2020 | 31/12/2020 |
4 | 12/01/2021 | 28/01/2021 |
5 | 02/02/2021 | 17/02/2021 |
6 | 23/02/2021 | 10/03/2021 |
7 | 16/03/2021 | 31/03/2021 |
8 | 08/04/2021 | 23/04/2021 |
9 | 27/04/2021 | 12/05/2021 |
10 | 13/05/2021 | 28/05/2021 |
11 | 27/05/2021 | 11/06/2021 |
12 | 08/06/2021 | 23/06/2021 |
13 | 22/06/2021 | 07/07/2021 |
14 | 06/07/2021 | 21/07/2021 |
15 | 20/07/2021 | 30/07/2021 |
16 | 02/09/2021 | 17/09/2021 |
17 | 16/09/2021 | 01/10/2021 |
18 | 05/10/2021 | 20/10/2021 |
19 | 21/10/2021 | 05/11/2021 |
Applications for admission will be evaluated when you complete the following steps:
- Complete the online admission form.
- Pay the €120 admission fee. This amount will be returned if you are not admitted.
- Send the following documents through the online platform e-registrar:
- Presentation letter or video
- CV
- Scanned copy of university degree (if you are in the last year of your degree, you can provide your academic records)
- Scanned copy of Transcript of Records. Make sure that it includes your GPA (Grade Point Average)
- Scanned copy of ID Card or Passport
- Passport-size photo (jpg format)
Additional documents may be requested in certain cases.
Application rounds are subject to the number of places available on the program.
Admission
- The Admissions Committee will select the candidates on the basis of a personal or CV-based interview.
- You will be notified of the admission decision in writing.
Enrolment
- Registration must be paid within a 15 days after the admission.
- Once the letter of acceptance to the program has been received, you will need to submit the following original documents before the course begins:
- Stamped and/or authenticated photocopy of your university degree.
- If you have a foreign degree you may need to submit additional documents.
- Paying the reservation fee (25% of the program's tuition fees) is essential in order to reserve your place
- If you pay the tuition fees by bank transfer you will be required to introduce the program code. The program code for this course is 2318.
- The remaining tuition fees must be paid 2 weeks before the start of the course.
Grants, scholarships and financing
Scholarships
The UPF Barcelona School of Management offers you different means of financing so that you can take any of our programs without worry. We offer you the opportunity to finance part of your program, either by rewarding your talent through scholarships, through grants from entities dedicated to promoting education or through collaboration agreements with financial entities.
Beca UPF-BSM
Apply for one of our UPF-BSM Scholarships, awarded specifically to Pompeu Fabra University students with a good academic record.
If you are studying your last undergraduate course (4th year) at UPF or at a UPF Group centre and you have a good record, you can apply for a UPF-BSM scholarship. Remember that you must be a graduate and be in possession of your degree (or failing that, the certificate of receipt) when you start the program in which you have enrolled.
- Be in the last undergraduate year at UPF.
- Have a good academic record.
- Have been admitted or are in the process of admission to a Master or Postgraduate course for which you are applying for this Scholarship.
- Apply for the Scholarship at the time of application for admission.
- Submit a motivation letter with the reasons why you have opted for the Scholarship and a list of verifiable merits.
- Upload the required documentation through the eRegistrar platform
- The dates of awarding or denying of the Scholarship will be published on the website.
- The scholarship candidate will personally receive a communication with the procedures to follow in order to formalize it.
- The Scholarship Committee assesses academic talent (average grade of the report) and personal talent (the motivation of the candidate and their merits).
- The UPF-BSM Scholarships are not compatible with specific aid for the programs, scholarships granted by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, and other UPF-BSM scholarships.
- They are compatible with other scholarships from organizations outside the UPF-BSM and with discounts for large families.
They are applied for and granted in accordance with the dates stipulated below:
Academic year programs 2020–21 and 2021–22
- Scholarship application deadline: 03/12/2020, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 14/12/2020
- Scholarship application deadline: 12/01/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 25/01/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 23/02/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 08/03/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 08/04/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 19/04/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 13/05/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 24/05/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 08/06/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 21/06/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 06/07/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 27/07/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 20/07/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 27/07/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 02/09/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 13/09/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 05/10/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 18/10/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 21/10/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 01/11/2021
Remember that you must apply for the scholarship when you complete the application for admission to the program that interests you and always before classes start. The Scholarship cannot be processed for a program that is already being studied.
If you have any questions about how to apply for the UPF-BSM Scholarships, you can contact our scholarship secretariat via email.
Social Value Scholarships
UPF Barcelona School of Management, for this next academic year, and aiming at the commitment for social welfare, offers the Social Value Scholarships with the objective of supporting and favoring the groups that the School considers a priority. Enter and consult the details.
These scholarships are intended to favor specific groups, to help them in their professional and personal development or people who are in a situation of economic difficulty.
The Social Value Scholarship program covers from 25% to 70% of the total tuition fee for the master's degree and from 25% to 50% of the total tuition fee for the diploma or postgraduate course for all the programs offered by the Institute of Continuing Education Foundation.
The University Master's Degree in Law and any other master’s degree carried out in conjunction with an institution outside the UPF-BSM are excluded. Also excluded are programs for which the interested party wishes to carry out any recognition. Repeating students will also not be eligible for the scholarship.
- "Impulsa MUJER" (“Promote Woman”)
Aimed at all professional women, from any environment, who wish to study a management program in any area of the company, to occupy leadership positions or to lead a professional project.
Sporty woman: Specifically addressed at professional sportswomen interested in studying the master’s degree in Sports Management in any of its modalities. - "Post COVID boost"
Aimed at people over 40 who are unemployed or in ERTE. ERTE is a term used in Spain to refer to the suspension for a specific time of the labor contract of part or all the workers of a company due to force majeure. This temporary suspension of the contract has been applied in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic and remains in effect until the Government and the Employer decide. - "Entrepreneur Scholarship for local economy"
Aimed at entrepreneurs and small businesses with a direct impact on the local economy and regions that need specific training to boost business.
- You must have applied for admission into one of the master's offered by the UPF Barcelona School of Management (except the Official Master's Program in Advocacy or those master's) and have been admitted to the program for which the grant is being requested.
- Present a letter of motivation with the reasons why you are applying for the scholarship with a list of merits or outstanding aspects that can be contrasted.
Consult the specific criteria for each of the modalities in the rules.
Submit your application for the Social Value Scholarship via the "Application form" of the program that you are interested in.
Submit the documentation via the "Scholarships and Funding" section of the eRegistar platform, to which you will be given access when applying
Please note that your application must meet all the requirements for both documentation and deadlines. Otherwise, it cannot be evaluated.
All documents except for the academic transcript must be in either Catalan, Spanish or English. The academic transcript can be presented in Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Italian or Portuguese. If it is another language it must be accompanied by a sworn official translation into Catalan or Spanish.
Social Value Scholarship applications have to be made at the same time as completing your application for the program and always before classes begin. Social Value Scholarships cannot be processed for a master's program that has already begun.
Equally, applications presented after the deadlines of the established rounds will not be accepted, even if classes have not yet begun.
Social Value Scholarship are applied for and awarded according to the dates outlined below.:
Programmes for the academic year 2021-2022
- Scholarship application deadline: 12/01/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 25/01/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 23/02/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 08/03/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 08/04/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 19/04/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 13/05/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 24/05/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 08/06/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 21/06/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 20/07/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 27/07/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 02/09/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 13/09/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 05/10/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 18/10/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 21/10/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 01/11/2021
The Scholarship Committee will only award Social Value Scholarships to those applicants who, having completed the corresponding documentation and been finally admitted to the program for which they are applying, have passed the various tests that may be requested and meet the criteria established in each established typology in which they wish to enter.
The Scholarship Committee will inform each applicant of the decision individually by e-mail, following the dates published on the website.
If you have any questions about how to apply for a Talent Scholarship, do not hesitate to contact our Scholarship Information Office. You can also consult the competition rules here.
Grants and discounts
Alumni discounts
If you are a member of our alumni associations or of one of our partner universities, we offer you a series of applicable discounts on the amount of tuition for your program.
- UPF Barcelona School of Management or UPF-IDEC Alumni: If you have previously studied at UPF Barcelona School of Management or UPF-IDEC a 15 credits (or more) program and you decide to take on a new program with us, you are entitled to a discount of 20% on your program tuition fees. It is required to be registered in the Alumni network of the UPF Barcelona School of Management upon your application. This discount is not applicable to short courses and postgraduate courses which are part of the same itinerary.
- UPF Alumni: If you have previously studied a degree, a master program or a doctoral program at Pompeu Fabra University, you are entitled to a discount of 15% on the UPF Barcelona School of Management Masters and postgraduated program tuition fees (those programs with more than 15 credits) beginning on or after 01/01/2019.
- ESCI-UPF and Tecnocampus Alumni: If you have previously studied a degree or a master at ESCI-UPF or Tecnocampus, you are entitled to a discount of 15% on the UPF Barcelona School of Management Masters and postgraduated program tuition fees (those programs with more than 15 credits).
UPF Employee Discounts
If you are a member or family member of an employee of the UPF group or belonged to the collaborating institutions of the UPF Barcelona School of Management, you can enjoy a series of applicable discounts on the tuition fees for your program.
- Administrative and Service Staff (PAS) of Pompeu Fabra University. You are entitled to a 35% discount on tuition fees for open programs subject to prior communication from the rector's office and/or the UPF general manager's office.
- Administrative and Service Staff (PAS) and Teaching and Research Staff (PDI) of the UPF Group. Discount of 20% on tuition fees for open programs.
- Relatives (up to second degree) of UPF and the UPF's Institute of Continuing Education's Foundation teaching and research staff (PAS and PDI, in Spanish). Discount of 20% on tuition fees for open programs.
- If you work at a company member of the Institute of Continuing Education Foundation's Board of Trustees or at any of our councils' companies. Discount of 20% on the tuition fees of our master's and postgraduate courses.
APTIC Discount
Professional Association of Translators and Interpreters of Catalonia Discount
DTRAD - ACE Translators
ACE Translators Discount.
Discount AATI
Argentine Association of Translators and Interpreters Discount.
UPF Partner Latinoamerican Universities Discount
If you are alumni of one of our Partner Universities, you are entitled to a discount of 10% on the UPF Barcelona School of Management Masters and postgraduate program tuition fees (those programs with more than 15 credits).
Funding
Financing simulator
You can choose how to finance your studies by consulting our simulator and receive an answer in less than 24 hours.
Collaborating entities
In addition, UPF Barcelona School of Management collaborates with various banks and financial entities which provide study loans on favorable terms. For more information you can contact any of the following links (in Spanish).
Note, however, that in order to benefit from these special conditions you must have a NIE if you are not a European Citizen. Therefore, UPF Barcelona School of Management strongly recommends international students to seek first for students loans at bank entities of their country of origin, or to search for funding opportunities through international entities.
The Agency for Management of University and Research Grants of Catalonia (AGAUR, in Spanish) also offers loans to university students with legal residence in Catalonia through the PREPOST program.
Language: Spanish
Price: 5350€