The University of Strasbourg offers a Master's degree in technical communication and localization, specifically designed for translators and technical writers wishing to move their careers forward.
The degree is a year-long, distance-learning master’s program, taught entirely in English by experts in the fields of technical communication, localization, project management, web technologies and visual communication.
It is also the first program in Europe to combine both a master’s degree and an International Tekom Professional Level “Technical Communicator (tekom)” certificate.
The Master in Technical Communication and Localization (TCLoc) is aimed at professionals already working in the fields of translation, localization, technical writing, multimedia, IT, or languages. It is also for students with academic backgrounds in language related fields who want to pursue a career in technical communication and localization.
The program offers distance-learning courses on the Moodle Learning Platform designed by "world-class instructors, all of which are experts in their field". The program schedule is flexible and designed for part-time study. The weekly workload is estimated at about 20 hours.
The curriculum has nine units: technical communication (analyzing, conceptualizing and editing technical content, information development, organization, standardization and publishing), localization (mastering IT product localization, introduction to machine translation), web tools and languages (markup languages, style sheet languages, programming languages, databases, development tools), visual communication, professional writing (Simplified Technical English, SEO writing and content marketing), project management, advanced localization (linguistic, visual, software), new techniques and technologies, and (final unit) academic paper and defense.
The program offers distance-learning courses on the Moodle Learning Platform designed by "world-class instructors, all of which are experts in their field". Instructors are Raymond Culp, Hélène Bajon, Mark Nightingale, Uta Seewald-Heeg, Ray Gallon, John Di Rico, Mark Childress, Guylaine Mylward, Boris Epp, Philippe Zingoni, Jordan Stanchev, Shumin Chen, Chris Raulf, Candice Burt, Pablo Ruiz Fabo, Drew Eisenhauer, Kirk St Amant, Alexandros Zekakis, Konrad Brust, Hilary Marsh and Julia Barbiera.
For more information about this Master's degree in technical communication and localization, please visit the website of the University of Strasbourg.