This course spans two semesters. Students in the Research Stream will produce an extended piece of translation or bilingual writing, or a dissertation. Students in the Practical Stream will produce an extend piece of translation or bilingual writing. Translation projects should be from English into Chinese or vice versa. Bilingual writing projects require output in both Chinese and English. Dissertations can be in either English or Chinese, depending on the research topics.

The length of the dissertation/project should be 13,000 to 20,000 words / characters. For the translation project, students should include 3,000 to 6,000 words / characters of preface, while the length of the source text should be 10,000 to 14,000 words / characters, although greater flexibility is allowed under special circumstances. Students will receive individual supervision.