Master in Terminology

 

The Online Master in Terminology is the advanced educational level of the online program on Terminology and a 60-credit course. To obtain the Master's degree, students have to pass 40 compulsory credits, which include a 10-credit supervised final project, and 20 optional credits.

Objectives

The objectives of this online superior level course on terminology are:

• To integrate the knowledge necessary to become a qualified professional on terminology or to participate in other professional activities where terminology and terminography knowledge is required.
• To deepen in the knowledge and the skills acquired during the previous levels, so that students can achieve a solid formation to work with initiative and autonomously and direct terminology projects.

Contents

The Online Master in Terminology is a modular program course that can be done sequentially in a 18-to-24-month period, or that permits to be followed by students with an own work pace, because all modules are offered every year.

The following are compulsory modules:
	Compulsory Modules	Credits (ECTS)	+ information
Level 2	Intermediate level Diploma of Postgraduate Studies: Terminology and Professional Needs	20
Workshop 1	Complementary training Methodology for terminology work	10
Level 3	Advanced level Supervised Master's Project	10
To achieve the required 60 credits to obtain the Master's degree, 20 optional credits must be selected from the following courses:
	Optional modules	Credits (ECTS)
Level 1	Beginner level Introduction to Terminology Postgraduate Course	10
Workshop 2	Complementary training Problems of terminological work	5
Workshop 3	Complementary training Corpus-based terminology work	5
Workshop 4	Complementary training Terminology management for computer assisted translation	5
Workshop 5	Complementary training Terminology database development	5
Workshop 6	Complementary training Neology	5
The International Summer School on Terminology (held in 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2009) can be convalidated by the Introduction to Terminology Postgraduate Course (10 ETCS credits).
	Convalidation of the Introduction to Terminology Postgraduate Course	Credits (ECTS)
	International Summer School on Terminology	10

 

Candidate selection

The candidate selection process will be based on registration order and academic qualifications.

Degree

Upon successful completion of 60 ECTS credits (including the programme compulsory modules: Diploma, methodological workshop and final project), the Master's Degree in Terminology is awarded by Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

Enrolment procedure

To carry out the registration, please follow the instructions on the registration page.

• Maximum number of students admitted: 35
• Admission requirements: in order to be admitted to the Online Master Programme, applicants must have a second cycle university degree.

For more information, please contact: iulaonline@upf.edu

Master's Final Project

The Master's Final Project is a supervised written assignment with a value of 10 compulsory ECTS credits to obtain the Master's Degree.

The project will consist in a terminographical work where all the theoretical, methodological and technical knowledge acquired during the different modules (Postgraduate course, Diploma and Workshops) will be put into practice.

Each student will be assigned an advisor who will supervise the work.

The basic characteristics of the Master's Final Pproject will be the following:

• Multilingual glossary (with a minimum of two languages) with a presentation of the project.
• Specialized Subject (with advisor agreement).
• No less than 75 entries (depending on the project).
• Conceptual organization of the vocabulary content.
• The work must be developed in a data base format. Category codes will be suggested by the advisor. Compulsory fields: entry, grammatical category, term source, subject code, conceptual organization code, context or definition, context or definition source, variants and synonyms , equivalents in other languages, equivalents source.